GDP growth, Obamacare Waste and Foul Mouthed Lerner

Mark Levy
Fri, 01 Aug 2014 21:00:00 -0700
Opinion

Dear Mark: I don't think you're man enough to print a letter praising President Obama after the news that our economy grew 4 percent for the second quarter. Conservatives have wanted President Obama to fail since day one, so what do you have to say now that his economic plan is working? — Gloating Glenda

Dear Gloating: I'm not so cynical as to hope America fails in order to prove that President Obama is a terrible leader. I'm happy that the U.S. economy may finally be coming back to life. No spin here because the numbers don't lie, but I challenge you to name one specific piece of legislation the president signed to cause this mild growth. I credit the hard work of the American people to grow the economy despite the onslaught of regulations and executive orders signed by this president.

Dear Mark: The Government Accounting Office just came out with a report that the disastrous rollout of Obamacare's website Healthcare.gov was a result of numerous management failures and poor oversights. In fact, it's estimated that the website alone has cost tax payers $840 million, and it's still not working right or even completed. How much longer will we stand for such insane incompetence from this corrupt administration? — Mad Dan
Updated: Sat Aug 02, 2014

Dear Mark: I don't think you're man enough to print a letter praising President Obama after the news that our economy grew 4 percent for the second quarter. Conservatives have wanted President Obama to fail since day one, so what do you have to say now that his economic plan is working? — Gloating Glenda

Dear Gloating: I'm not so cynical as to hope America fails in order to prove that President Obama is a terrible leader. I'm happy that the U.S. economy may finally be coming back to life. No spin here because the numbers don't lie, but I challenge you to name one specific piece of legislation the president signed to cause this mild growth. I credit the hard work of the American people to grow the economy despite the onslaught of regulations and executive orders signed by this president.

Dear Mark: The Government Accounting Office just came out with a report that the disastrous rollout of Obamacare's website Healthcare.gov was a result of numerous management failures and poor oversights. In fact, it's estimated that the website alone has cost tax payers $840 million, and it's still not working right or even completed. How much longer will we stand for such insane incompetence from this corrupt administration? — Mad Dan

Dear Mad: According to a story in the National Journal, "The GAO's report, prepared for a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing, details a long series of management, oversight and contracting problems that plagued the entire process, from risky contracting practices in 2011 through the botched launch last October." If these statements weren't from a nonpartisan government agency, the left would be screaming that this is just crazy rightwing rhetoric aimed at besmirching President Obama.

This is another case of the emperor has no clothes as the cost overruns, waste and systematic failures of the Affordable Care Act are so blatantly obvious, yet the Obama sycophants continue to worship at his alter.

Here's some simple math: Take the wasted $840 million and divide by 50. You end up with $16.8 million per state. Wouldn't liberals love to see that money invested in education or mental health programs? But instead they just keep telling themselves how good President Obama looks on that horse.

To answer your question, a dead fish stinks from the head, and it looks like we'll have to suffer with presidential incompetence through the next presidential election. The scathing GAO report once again proves that serving as a community organizer on the south side of Chicago hardly prepares a person to oversee a multi-trillion dollar government program, much less serve as president of the United States.

Dear Mark: It's time for a special prosecutor in the IRS scandal. Newly released emails prove that Lois Lerner was not some impartial IRS official when she basically called conservatives "a-holes" and "crazies." First of all, that kind of language is not becoming of her former position. Also, the IRS is supposed to be neutral and these comments seem to lend credence to the charges that the IRS targeted numerous conservative groups. Do you think we'll finally see Eric Holder investigate this? — Doubting Thomas

Dear Doubting: Heck no, we won't see a special prosecutor in this case. My guess is Attorney General Holder has been instructed to drag his feet until a new president has taken the oath of office in 2017. And in the event of any significant link between President Obama and this scandal, the hope will be that the next president will simply want to put this behind us in name of uniting the country.

As far as language becoming of any position at the IRS, a-holes and crazies seems mild compared to what that agency does to Americans every day.