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Democrat Senate votes to shut down Government..

The Democrats had the opportunity to keep the Government funded, and voted against it.

On a strict party-line vote, the U.S. Senate rejected a measure passed by the House which would fund the government and delay the implementation of the Affordable Care Act by one year. By a vote of 54 – 46, the Senate rejected the measure and sent the bill back to the House.

Why does Harry Reid want to shut down the Government?

Not a bad sports weekend..

The Rockies send Todd Helton off to retirement with a win, the Broncos continue their incredible offensive output in a blowout, my Sun Devils pound arch-rival the University of Spoiled Children (which launches ASU into the Top 25), resulting in Coach Kiffin getting pulled off the bus and handed his walking papers. 

Maybe my weekend could be complete, and USC could hire Mike Stoops.

"If you like your plan, you can keep it.."

Unless you live in one of these ten States:

1) California: 58,000 will lose their plans under Obamacare. The first bomb dropped in California with a mass exodus from the most populated state’s Obamacare exchange. Aetna, the country’s largest insurer, left first in July and was closely followed by UnitedHealth. Anthem Blue Cross pulled out of California’s Obamacare exchange for small businesses as well.

Fifty-four percent of Californians expect to lose their coverage, according to an August poll.

2) Missouri: Patients of the state’s largest hospital system — which spans 13 hospitals including the St. Louis Children’s Hospital — will not be covered by the largest insurer on Obamacare exchanges, Anthem BlueCross BlueShield. Anthem covers 79,000 patients in Missouri who may seek subsidies on Obamacare exchanges, but won’t be able to see any doctors in the BJC HealthCare system.

3) Connecticut: Aetna, the third largest insurer in the nation, won’t offer insurance on the Obamacare exchange in its own home state, where it was founded in 1850. The reason? “We believe the modification to the rates filed by Aetna will not allow us to collect enough premiums to cover the cost of the plans and meet the service expectations of our customers,” said Aetna spokesman Susan Millerick.

4) Maryland: 13,000 individuals covered by Aetna and its recently-purchased Coventry Health Care won’t be able to keep their insurance plans if they want Obamacare subsidies on the exchanges. Aetna and Coventry canceled plans to offer insurance in the exchange when state officials wouldn’t allow them to charge premiums high enough to cover costs.

 

5) South Carolina: 28,000 people were insured by Medical Mutual of Ohio, SC’s second-largest insurance company, until it decided to leave the state entirely in July due to Obamacare’s “vast and quite complex” new regulations. Company spokesman Ed Byers said Medical Mutual’s patients would be switched over to United Healthcare plans instead.

6) New York: Aetna pulled out of New York’s exchange in late August in an effort to keep their plans “financially viable,” said Aetna spokeswoman Cynthia Michener.

7) New Jersey: 1.1 million Aetna customers are at risk in New Jersey, where the leading insurer also won’t be a part of the exchange. Just 2,600 patients purchase individual plans with the company, but any looking to take advantage of subsidies on the exchange for unaffordable employer-based insurance won’t be able to do with Aetna.

8) Iowa: Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Iowa’s largest health insurer, decided not to offer plans in the Obamacare exchange. It sells 86 percent of Iowa’s individual health insurance plans.

9) Wisconsin: Two of the three largest insurers in the state won’t offer plans on the exchange. United Healthcare and Humana patients will have to get a new health insurer to buy insurance on Obamacare exchanges.

10) Georgia: Just five insurers are participating in Georgia’s Obamacare exchange. Medical Mutual of Ohio left Georgia and Indiana as well as South Carolina, due to Obamacare regulations. Aetna, along with Coventry, also decided against participating in the George health exchange.

No complaints from our house..

The series finale of Breaking Badwas on tonight, and the fetching Mrs. P and I both loved it.  We felt it was perfect in tying up the remaining lose ends without being "too Hollywood", and wouldn't have changed a thing.  It was a great show, we looked forward to Sunday nights in ABQ, and will miss the characters and storylines.

Well done, cast and crew!  A+.

How many do have on the list?

Of the 40 listed, I have 32.  How do you score?

Nice day today..

A little company I know went public today, rocketing from the IPO of $27 per share to a closing price of $30.65.  Cool to be a part of that, and to have it happen during a field sales meeting, with a ton of co-workers all around.

Let's see it keep climbing, so I can retire early!  :)

You know what's funny?

When people who feel they are intellectually superior show their stupidity.

Take this post, for example:

So it has been with me and making fun of Republican talking points. I can't take this stuff farther than the Republicans already are! For example Ted Cruz. Cruz just completed a 22 hour "filibuster" (not an actual filibuster, because it didn't delay a vote and had no parliamentary purpose) in which he warned that voting for cloture on "Obamacare" {I'm putting quotes around the word because Cruz seems to have gone out of his way to avoid referring to an actual law such as the Affordable Care Act) would be a disaster for America. During the speech, he cited Green Eggs and Ham; which he described as a story about someone who simply didn't like something and refused to eat it, much like Americans simply don't like "Obamacare."

How sincere was he, this Ted Cruz fellow? For one thing, at the end of that Dr. Seuss classic, the protagonist tries Green Eggs and Ham and discovers he LOVES IT! IT'S HIS FAVORITE THING! HE'LL NEVER EAT ANYTHING ELSE! And an hour after he was done, Cruz voted for cloture, just like everyone else in the senate. Clearly he wants Obamacare AND he wants to trick you into thinking he doesn't, but he needs wiggle room for later.

See?  Cruz is so stupid, he didn't even know what he was doing!  What a buffoon!

Reality of course, helps make things more clear.

I guess I can't fault our friends on the Left too much, after all, they are spoonfed what to think and say, without taking a second to ask themselves "Hey, why doesn't this make sense?  Why would this guy stand around talking for that long, and then vote for it?"

If they did pause, before following blindly off the cliff, and do a little research, they'd understand what Cruz had always supported:

But Cruz, all along had promised to support the motion proceed, but to filibuster the next cloture motion -- the Motion to Invoke Cloture on the resolution itself. In other words, Cruz favors moving into debate on the CR, but not cutting off debate on the CR.

Here were Cruz's words last night:

The central vote the Senate will take on this fight will not occur today and it will not occur tomorrow. The first vote we are going to take on this is a vote on what is called cloture on the motion to proceed. Very few people not on this floor have any idea what that means and even, I suspect, a fair number of people on this floor are not quite sure what that means. That will simply be a vote whether to take up this bill and to begin debating this bill. I expect that vote to pass overwhelmingly, if not unanimously. Everyone agrees we ought to take this up, we ought to start this conversation.

The next vote we take will occur on Friday or Saturday and it will be on what is called cloture on the bill. That is the vote that matters. Cloture on the bill, the vote Friday or Saturday, is the vote that matters.

My colleague Joel Gehrke explains the fuller context.

Here's a little more explanation:

Here's the procedural background: There are two cloture votes before the final vote on whether the Senate will pass the continuing resolution that defunds Obamacare, which the House already passed. Cruz arranged to speak for as long as possible; the Senate rules allow for up to 30 hours of debate after cloture is filed, but the senators sometimes agree unanimously to shorten that debate. Because Cruz opted to object, though, he extended the debate to the full 30 hours. Once those 30 hours concluded, though, he had to yield the floor whenever Reid decided to call the vote.

Doesn't quite fit the Leftist narrative that those Republicans are so stoopid, does it?  But hey, why let those pesky facts get in the way, right?

Don't forget the main reason for Cruz' 21-hour gab: to draw attention to an issue.  Which he did.  Successfully.

The point of a talking filibuster is to call attention to an issue, not achieve a decisive policy victory. In keeping with that goal, Cruz ended his performance today by asking that the second cloture vote --- the one that would end debate on the continuing resolution (today's vote officially began the debate) --- take place on Friday. Cruz explained that he thought he would have a greater chance of succeeding if the Senate voted during the work week rather than on Saturday, when most true patriots are watching college football.

In the end, the guy who claimed Cruz was slowing things down, decided not to move the vote up, but instead delayed the vote himself:

Reid objected to moving up the vote to end debate, despite his stated concern that they won't have time before the government is scheduled to run out of money to debate whatever bill the House responds with after the Senate strips out the language to defund Obamacare.

But Cruz is the moron, right?

Government fails, locals step up..

Good on you, Mower Gang:

 

Nice to see some folks that will do good, out of their own pockets, to make their neighborhood a better place.

Try being a parent, and not a best friend..

So much wrong with this "parent"..

Dump 'em both, I say..

Which do you pick, the serial texter, or the "screeching harpy"?

Poor Huma. Married to one of the biggest clowns on the planet, and now she’s got to choose between her loser husband or this screeching harpy.

Top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin has been given an ultimatum: dump serial-sexting hubby Anthony Weiner, or get out of Clintontown.

“Huma has a choice to make,” a close associate tells New York magazine. “Does she go with Anthony, or does she go with Hillary?”

Abedin’s decision over whether to leave the “Clinton bubble,” where she’s seen as Hillary’s most trusted aide, has emerged as “the biggest question among Hillary’s circle” as the former Secretary of State mulls a 2016 run for the White House, the magazine reports.

The Clinton camp was blindsided by revelations over the summer — during Weiner’s disastrously failed New York mayoral run — that he’d kept up his secret online sexting even after resigning from Congress in shame in 2011. Abedin was quickly advised to keep her distance from her scandal-scarred mate, and vanished from Weiner’s side for the rest of the campaign. The candidate’s bird-flipping parting shot to reporters after his humiliating defeat this month made a bad situation even worse, according to New York.

She’s probably better off just fleeing the country. You know how messy these love triangles can be.

Funny how the lady that stood by the lying guy that got hummers in the Oval Office, feels she can pass judgement over a fellow woman with an equally creepy husband.

Maybe Huma will wake up, and ditch the whole lot.  I bet she'd be happier in the long run.