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Embroiled in her husband's charity scandal, Linda Stender won't seek re-election

They were going to throw her off the ballot anyway.

Don't feel bad for her though. She'll be keeping that $90,000 per year job her cronies created for her at the Union County Improvement Authority.

Hey, they're not mad about what she did, they're mad because she got caught.

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If you've ever wondered what the internet looked like in 1934, you'll love ObamaNet

Obama's FCC really did it. They really voted to regulate the internet. They dusted off a 1934 law used to rein in Ma Bell and said those rules need to apply to your home broadband connection in 2015.

Forward, into the past!

Forget visions of "half fast" internet. Those days are gone now.

Henceforth the internet will run at the speed of government.

And the government will decide who can connect.

The government will decide how you'll connect.

A bureaucrat will determine if your internet usage is in "the public interest." And fine you if it isn't.

How many of you are old enough to remember when the FCC regulated telephone service? I am.

We could have any kind of telephone we wanted, so long as we wanted a black rotary dial desk phone.

We could call anywhere in the world we wanted, so long as we scheduled all "long distance" calls in advance and paid upwards of $20 per minute.

And we could connect anything we wanted to our telephone line, so long as we submitted it to the FCC first so they could "certify" it, a process that typically took dozens of years.

In 1982 Judge Harold Greene nuked the FCC's control over the telephone system. He ordered the breakup of AT&T, and he initiated a technological open season which in a few short years brought us the iPhone, FiOS, Wi-Fi, Google, Amazon, and yes, the internet as we knew it.

Yes, knew, past tense.

Because today Barack Obama's lackeys on the FCC turned back the clock. The internet will henceforth be classified as a "telecommunications service" as defined in Title II of the Communications Act of 1934.

Back in 1934 telegrams were what passed for email. Back in 1934 the computer hadn't been invented yet. Back in 1934 a Sears Catalog was as close as anyone got to online shopping.

By invoking that archaic law, the FCC gave itself broad power to control every aspect of your internet experience. To pick the websites you're allowed to visit. To restrict which devices can be attached to your home network. To block "harmful" protocols like bittorrent. And of course to restrict anonymonity via internet drivers licenses.

My friends, this is tyranny, pure and simple. And it came at the direct orders of Barack Hussein Obama.

Oh, and one more thing today's action gives the FCC — the power to tax the internet. Ever notice the lines on your landline phone bill for "Universal Service Fund" and "FCC Subscriber Line Charge"? Go look for them. Look at how much of your bill they represent. Then get ready to see the same charges on your internet bill, because the main thrust of Title II isn't regulation. Oh sure, Title II gives the FCC the authority to regulate. But it also gives the FCC the ability to impose fees on regulated "telecommunications services."

Fees, just another name for "taxes."

Barack Obama loves taxes.

Once the government imposes a fee it takes an Act Of God to rescind it. Did you know that until 2006 you were paying a 3% surcharge on your phone bill? And you'd been paying that 3% surcharge since 1898 when it was imposed "temporarily" to help pay for the Spanish-American War? That was one of thse "tax the rich" chimeras by the way. Back in 1898 only "rich people" had telephones.

It took 108 years to get rid of that "temporary" tax.

Wanna bet FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has a similar plan to tax your broadband service so he can give internet access to everybody who signed up for an Obamaphone?

Welcome to ObamaNet. Where your home page defaults to MSNBC, and no, you can't change it.

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Activist NJ judge rules greedy unionistas get their pension payment come Hell or high water

New Jersey is broke. That fact is not in dispute.

But greedy public employee unionistas sued to force Governor Chris Christie into fully funding their gold-plated pension system. And an activist judge said "yes."

Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.

The only way to fully fund the bloated pension system's overly generous benefits is to cut discretionary spending.

So Governor Christie, cut. And then cut some more.

Decimate every sacred cow near and dear to New Jersey's libtards; cut state aid to education, slash municipal assistance, refuse to spare Medicare, and layoff legions of unnecessary unionistas.

Hit 'em where it hurts.

The retirees get their bloated pensions, but everybody under 40 gets screwed. Let's see how long that equation remains viable.

I give it 15 minutes.

Then the folks who still have jobs will decide to cut their losses and let the "biological solution" take care of the grumpy grifters.

Or not. In the end it doesn't matter who gets screwed, so long as it's not us taxpayers.

Chris Christie wants to be president. Ergo, he won't raise taxes to satiate the pension behemoth. So whatever constituency does get hosed, I'll be the guy over there laughing in the corner.

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How do you fix a solar energy fiasco that's $88 million in the hole? Throw more money at it!

Why waste a mere $88 million, when you can waste millions more? Yup. That tri-county solar energy debacle I wrote about last week is getting a taxpayer bailout.

It couldn't make money when it cost $88 million. So obviously the "solution" is to pour even more money into it!

Did these clowns fail math?

Of course they did.

In the Real World, we call that "throwing good money after bad."

In government, they call that "Tuesday."

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Habitat for NJ Assemblywoman Linda Stender's Husband, charity tapped for luxury beach house

When you donate to Habitat for Humanity, you expect your money will go toward helping needy people put a roof over their heads.

And it's kinda hard to believe an NJ Assemblywoman and her husband qualify as "needy," especially since she's a well-connected Democrat who was just appointed to a $90,000 per year job at the Union County Improvement Authority, on top of her $49,000 legislative salary.

But Monmouth County's Coastal Habitat for Humanity thought differently. They approved the Stenders' application for Hurricane Sandy relief with plans that call for an impressive 2000 square foot, two story, 4 bedroom, 3 and ½ bath home to be built at the Jersey shore.

And gold-plated fixtures too?

Habitat typically builds modest "starter homes" with 3 bedrooms and 1 and ½ baths. And the Stenders earn far more than the maximum income that ought to qualify for Habitat's help.

[Habitat] helps homeowners who make up to 80 percent of Monmouth County's median household income, which is $84,526. However, Linda Stender's legislative financial disclosure records shows her combined income with her husband was at least $99,000 a year in 2012 and 2013.

Now for the best part. Manasquan in Monmouth County is far outside of Linda Stender's Union County district. But it's OK! She "lives with her mom." Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

The financial disclosures also list the Manasquan property as the only one owned by either Stender or her husband. Stender registered to run for reelection in 2013 from a Scotch Plains address, and told her district-mate, Assemblyman Jerry Green (D-Union), that she lives with her mother and that her husband lives in Manasquan.

So, it appears that Assemblywoman Stender is either scamming the voters, scamming Habitat, or more likely, doing both. In other words, she's a typical Democrat!

The good news is, Habitat is "re-evaluating" the Stenders' application.

And in November, the voters will get a chance to "re-evaluate" Linda Stender's employment. I hope they make the right choice.

UPDATE 23 Feb 2015 13:48:
The plot thickens. Habitat for Humanity wants their money back.

Sounds like Habitat for Humanity is in Damage Control Mode.

If they held a meeting with the Stenders, and if they saw plans for a McMansion, why didn't they raise a red flag?

I think it's time to break out the popcorn. Because this ain't over, not by a longshot.

UPDATE 23 Feb 2015 16:45:
And now there's a criminal investigation.

NJ has been pretty aggressive in prosecuting Sandy fraud. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.

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Competence: HHS sent out 800,000 bad tax forms to Obamacare enrollees

These clowns can't get anything right. Today's Obamacare debacle? 800,000 bogus tax forms.

The White House has some bad news for those ObamaCare-insured taxpayers who prepared for early tax filing — or actually had already filed. That form that they sent out about premiums and subsidies? More than ten percent of them turned out to be wrong, so … you'll have to either wait to calculate your taxes, or have a do-over.

They'll mail corrected forms "soon."

Hey, filing your taxes wasn't painful enough, right?

It's not just the federal exchange, either. The Covered California system issued 100,000 erroneous tax forms, too. The AP has no word on other state exchanges, but it's beginning to look like ObamaCare may snarl tax preparation for weeks.

But don't worry, your health care is in the very best of hands!

Really. You'd think Obama would take a few minutes from playing golf or apologizing to Muslims to make sure his signature legislation isn't screwing over the people he's claiming to help.

Nope.

Meanwhile, HHS has Hillary's back — if a low-information voter has been living under a rock for the past 5 years she can still sign up for Obamacare even though enrollments are technically "closed" for 2015.

Democrats were in a panic that their voters would get socked with two tax penalties this year, and take it out on Hillary Clinton's presidential ambitions in 2016.

Besides, deadlines are for suckers. Obama's minions just rewrite the law to suit their whims, because, uh, it's good to be king!

It's us peons who have to live with the fallout. Good thing I haven't filed my taxes yet.

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Obama Admin to Egypt: Please stop bombing ISIS, we're trying to find them jobs

Remember that day after Pearl Harbor when FDR told Harry Hopkins to set up a WPA office in Tokyo because the "root cause" of Japanese aggression was the lack of good jobs?

Yeah, good times.

And it's what probably would have actually happened if Barack Obama had been our president back then.

Shudder.

Two incomprehensible news items today.

Item #1 — State Department spokesidiot Marie Harf:

We cannot kill our way out of the IS problem; we have to address the "Root Causes" and give the IS killers jobs.

I hear Target is hiring greeters.

And not for nothing, but given Obama's ability to create jobs, we're doomed.

Item #2 — Hey Egypt, couldja please stop bombing ISIS? Because it's making us look lame, or something.

The United States does not support Egyptian and Emirati airstrikes against Islamist militias in Libya because the U.S. believes the crisis in Libya must be resolved politically and without outside interference, a Department of Defense spokesman said Tuesday.

What color is the sky on their planet?

Obama's strategy is working so well, ISIS just torched another 45 "random" people.

Barbarians.

They're barbarians. But Obama can't bring himself to contextualize their depravity.

I ask again, what color is the sky on their planet?

Here's a pro tip. Denying reality doesn't make reality go away.

Officials did acknowledge that the Islamic State is behind several terrorist activities in the Middle East, but they dismissed the idea that this group is Muslim at all. Instead, they said the group is using a "warped interpretation" of Islam.

You wanna know who's interpretation is "warped?" Obama's. And all his sycophants'.

While they equivocate, ISIS marches on.

While Obama dithers, the world burns.

Remember his remark about "the JV team?" Yeah, there is a JV team alright, only it's his team that's not ready for prime time.

He's either woefully incompetent, or, and this is my real fear, he's rooting for the other side and actively working to ensure a worldwide Islamic victory.

America needs a Churchill, or better yet a John III Sobieski. We got a Vidkun Quisling.

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Democrats shamelessly pull an about-face on Obamacare tax penalties

Sometimes I start to think that maybe Democrats do have principles. But then, reality always obviates me of that silly notion.

So they were for the penalties, until the penalties started biting their key demographic (low-information consumers of government) in the ass.

That's 4 million people who'll be less likely to vote for Hillary Clinton.

Whoa, we can't have that! To the ramparts! Fight the penalties!

"Open enrollment period ended before many Americans filed their taxes," the three lawmakers said in a statement. "Without a special enrollment period, many people (who will be paying fines) will not have another opportunity to get health coverage this year."

Wait, you mean President Selfie Stick didn't get his message out to everyone on the DNC's list of likely Hillary voters? It's been 5 years now, just how out of touch are their sycophants?

Apparently, pretty darned out of touch. Because Obamabots are getting blindsided, and they're not liking it, not one bit.

Bwahahahaha! Sucks to be you Toots.

Who here thinks Ms. Riddle is going to learn from her mistake?

Yeah, me neither. She'll still vote for the Democrats and their false promises. Because you just can't fix stupid. But you can mock it. Mercilessly.

Obama lied.
Democrats cried.
Hypocrisy died.
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Progressives far and wide.

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Massive NJ solar project fizzles, leaving taxpayers $88 million in the hole

Another green energy fail.

Except, and this is the key part, they weren't actually selling electricity.

Nope, they were selling tax credits. And it turns out, the market for those tax credits dried up.

But the market for state solar-energy tax credits -- a key part of the deal -- plummeted in the months after the deal was struck. Cost overruns mounted, and the developer and contractor became embroiled in a dispute that ended in lawsuits, according to court papers. Work ground to a halt. And while the projects in Somerset were mostly completed, only about half were completed in two of the counties, Morris and Sussex.

Green energy is simply not viable without taxpayer subsidies. The subsidy either comes on the front-end via tax credits, or on the back-end as we see here. Either way the taxpayer is left holding the bag just so the ecotwits can smugly preen in their coal-powered Priuses.

There's a reason private enterprise won't build these boondoggles without government guarantees. They're too risky, and the potential returns too meager. Remember Solyndra? Or the myriad failures of wind power?

Meanwhile environmental groups like the Sierra Club raise hundreds of millions of dollars from their deluded supporters, which they use to lobby government into wasting tax dollars on green energy. Here's an idea. They should put up their own damn money. Pledge their $88 million instead of mine. Walk the walk. Stop blowing smoke up my ass.

They won't, of course. Because they're not stupid, and they know that green energy is Teh #Fail.

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The whole point of Obama's Executive Amnesty is to give illegal aliens the ability to vote

My conservative friends have noticed a "loophole" in Obama's Executive Amnesty plan — it'll be trivially easy for non-citizens to register to vote.

All is proceeding according to President Valerie Jarrett's diabolical plan. She intends to turn Texas blue, and thereby hand the presidency to Democrats forever. Registering illegal aliens to vote is the quickest way to do that.

This is why it's vital for the Senate to defund Executive Amnesty. Mitch McConnell must not flinch on the DHS funding bill. Once illegals start voting, America as we knew it is gone forever because the allure of free stuff will have them lined up behind the Democrats for sure.

Go nuclear Senator, it's what Valerie Jarrett would do.

Politics ain't beanbag. Obama and Jarrett are playing for keeps. Punch back twice as hard!

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Obama's FEC plans to regulate blogs, and dictate what we can, and cannot, say online

Censorship is coming to the WyBlog. Obama's FEC commissars are going to regulate political blogs and websites, subjecting us to their byzantine campaign finance regulations.

Liberals on the Federal Election Commission are discussing new rules to regulate websites and blogs. The new regulations would require websites to disclose their political donors.

The better for Lois Lerner to harass those donors, of course.

So, nonwithstanding the First Amendment, I can have opinions, just so long as they're the approved opinions.

I'm pretty sure the Founding Fathers wouldn't approve. Can you imagine the absurdity of Thomas Paine reporting to King George on the sources of his funding for Common Sense? Yeah, me neither.

The fact that so many liberals do approve speaks volumes about their mentality. They want to be told what to think; it frees them from having to take responsibility for their actions. They want to be insulated from contrary opinions; it relieves them from contemplating right vs wrong.

Welcome to communist America. Where the government controls the media. And citizens aren't free to speak their minds.

They don't care what we want. They're going to impose their will. They're going to shut us up. They're going to shut me up.

This isn't America anymore. And if you voted for Obama, then you don't deserve to call yourself an American. You're a communist. Move to Cuba or North Korea already. Because I am not going to stand idly by and let you and this power-mad president destroy the last vestiges of my freedom.

I have a RIGHT to speak my mind. And Barack Obama can go to hell.

Wolverines!

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Bullying for Tolerance: CA high school humiliates kids who question homosexual dogma

At Acalanes High School in Lafayette, California homosexuality is now compulsory, and dissent will not be tolerated. Because, Tolerance!

That's funny, when a someone ridicules or humiliates a kid who says he's LGBT, that's bullying. But the Rainbow Warriors are "peer educators," immune from criticism, or accountability.

Sounds a lot like peer pressure to me. In my day it was all the cool kids are smoking dope, so why aren't you? Now it's all the cool kids are taking it up the ass, and if you don't, you're a hater.

There is no bully quite as viscious as a homofascist preaching "tolerance." And I've got the fan mail to prove it.

But of course. Christian values are antithetical to the homosexual agenda. And we all know which way our secular intellectual overseers view the issue; only homosexuals can tell us what we're allowed to think, Christians need to get with the program.

So when your kid shows up for her next English class, don't be shocked if she's asked point blank, "Are you now, or have you ever been a homophobe?"

Next week they'll ask if her parents voted Republican.

Remember the Golden Rule? Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you?

Yeah, the homosexuals never got the memo. Maybe because it came from that Jesus guy, and we all know how much He hated people who weren't exactly like Himself. Oh, wait…

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Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore stands up for traditional marriage, LGBT freakout ensues

The Alabama state constitution defines marriage as being between one man and one woman. You know, the way it's been for millenia. Late last month a meddlesome federal district court judge, operating at the behest of the homofascist juggernaut, decreed the Alabama constitution to be, get ready for this, unconstitutional.

Usually states capitulate when federal courts dictate what they can, and cannot do. But not Alabama. Chief Justice Roy Moore is drawing a line in the sand.

Chief Justice Moore contends, rightly I might add, that Alabama probate judges report directly to him and not to any federal jurisdiction. Only his court, or the U.S. Supreme Court can order them to impose same-sex "marriage" on the good citizens of Alabama. And early this morning, SCOTUS punted.

Now it's up to Governor Robert Bentley to uphold his state constitution and his oath of office.

Naturally all the usual suspects are freaking out, whinging about "due process" and "equal protection" while equating Roy Moore to George Wallace.

Yeah, that makes sense. Because homosexuals are routinely being prevented from attending school, eating lunch, or earning a living. And we sure as shootin' don't let 'em vote, right?

Er, no (just in care you're sarcasm-impaired). We don't stop any man from marrying a woman, or any woman from marrying a man. But, men marrying men, women marrying women, that's something completely different, a new and expanded "right," totally different from any previously recognized definition of marriage. Yet somehow it's now being touted as "equal."

So riddle me this Batman. Suppose Judge Moore had told his probate judges to stop issuing gun permits. Unlike the totally invented right to same-sex "marriage," the right to keep and bear arms is enshrined in black and white in the U.S. Constitution. Yet states restrict that enumerated right every day. States refuse to honor valid gun permits issued by other states every day. People are arbitrarily and capriciously denied the right to keep and bear arms every day.

Yet I don't hear any liberals whinging about "equal protection" when it comes to guns. Shouldn't all laws be equal? Why is it that sexual deviancy gets special status when the clear intent of the Founding Fathers does not?

Remember Shaneen Allen? She made the mistake of bringing a totally legally owned gun from Pennsylvania into New Jersey. She managed to avoid 3 years in jail only after an internet outcry shamed the prosecutor into dropping charges against her. Sadly, she's not alone.

PA resident James McCoy was pulled over by a Lawrence Twp. cop last week. Mr. McCoy presented his PA firearms ID card along with his license and registration. And quicker than you can can "travesty" he was in handcuffs for the diabolical crime of possessing an unloaded gun and amnunition in a locked container inside his vehicle.

If he'd presented a same-sex "marriage" certificate, he'd be free and clear. Because equal protection dontcha know. But his PA gun permit isn't valid in New Jersey. Or anywhere else. Because?

Beats me. I'm just a humble blogger with common sense who's generally good at reading comprehension. You have to be a liberal control-freak fascist to get your mind around the idea that an enumerated right isn't worth the paper it's printed on while an invented "right" trumps the will of the people of Alabama, not to mention 6,000+ years of human history.

Godspeed Judge Moore.

UPDATE 09 Feb 2015 13:54:
Cowards.

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NJ judge rules that "Under God" belongs in the Pledge of Allegiance

Atheist killjoys have lost another round.

They came venue shopping to New Jersey, hoping our famously activist judiciary would be sympathetic to their pettiness.

Nope.

That's because another student, 18 year old Samantha Jones, a senior at Highland Regional High School, fought back.

Bravo Miss Jones, bravo!

No one has the right to tell us what, or what not, to say.

Sadly though, the American Humanist Association vows to appeal. They can't let this go, because they won't be happy until everyone is as miserable as they are.

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Because Tom Wheeler wasn't smarter than Steve Case, Obama will tax and destroy the internet

Today Barack Obama's hand-picked FCC chairman laid out his rational for taxing and regulating the internet. It's because AOL's Steve Case ate his lunch back in the 80's.

Steve Case built a better mousetrap. Tom Wheeler went into government.

Vengence is mine, sayeth the Obamabots.

Tom Wheeler failed at business. So he's going to punish everyone who has managed to succeed.

That's the whole story. Sour grapes. Because the thing is, the problem Tom Wheeler's 1980s company encountered won't be alleviated by his definition of Net Neutrality.

My proposal will modernize Title II, tailoring it for the 21st century, in order to provide returns necessary to construct competitive networks. For example, there will be no rate regulation, no tariffs, no last-mile unbundling.

Can you guess what NABU needed to make its cable internet venture successful?

Last mile unbundling.

Tom Wheeler needed the government to seize the private property of cable operators to make his dreams a reality. He needed free access to the wires coming into your house so he could put his magic gizmos on them. The very thing he's saying he won't demand.

But the fact remains, he didn't want to pay for those wires. He didn't want to rent those wires. He wanted them to be handed to him, on a silver platter, for free.

So why isn't he now requiring last mile unblundling as part of his Net Neutrality initiative?

Because regulating the internet is only the first step. Nationalizing the internet is his, and his president's goal. Total government control of what you download, what you see, and where your surf. For your own good, of course.

We used to call that censorship. Now it's called Obamunism.

Imagine if the internet was an actual highway. (Remember Al Gore and his "information superhighway?") Along the highway are billboards. Some of those billboards are bigger than others. Some are brighter. Some are closer to the road. Tom Wheeler's billboard is in the next county. Nobody sees it. So his "solution?" Force you to drive on a 2 lane dirt road just so you do see it.

That's Net Neutrality. Every billboard is equal.

Except, that's not how America works.

Net Neutrality means everybody's internet is equally slow.

You want to pay for faster internet? Sorry, you can't. Because some schlub in Cleveland might be sad if he finds out his internet is slower than yours.

Adding insult to injury — the 16.1% tax Tom Wheeler is going to impose on your monthly internet bill.

Think of of it as Obamacare for the internet. He'll tax you to subsidize broadband for "the underserved." I'll leave you to imagine how the population of the underserved intersects with the population of slacker Obama voters.

They want free internet. And Tom Wheeler and Barack Obama want you to pay for it.

There's the dirty secret behind Net Neutrality. You pay. Obamabots get free downloads.

And Tom Wheeler gets to use his government position to stick it to Steve Case's progenitors, so he can exact his pound of flesh and pretend he "won."

The thing is, Steve Case did more to build and perfect the internet than Tom Wheeler ever could. And in 1,000 years, when history looks back at this era, Steve Case will be lauded as a visionary, while Tom Wheeler and Barack Obama will be forgotten, if not vilified and ridiculed for their pettiness.

Small comfort, for sure, when you and I are writing the checks.

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Obama rewrites the law again, IRS waives Obamacare subsidy clawback penalties

What do you do when you realize that millions of low-information voters are going to get hosed by your signature piece of legislation? Well, if you're Barack Obama, you unilaterally decide not to enforce the inconvenient provisions of that law.

So it should come as no surprise that the IRS has "clarified" how they'll recapture excess Obamacare subsidies come April 15th. They won't. Not right away anyway.

Well, isn't that special? Pay your taxes whenever you feel like it! That is, if you're somebody the Democrats are counting on to help put Hillary Clinton in the White House.

As the saying goes, Obama's got more nerve than cheap veal cutlet. This is, what, the 914th time he's decided he can just ignore the law whenever it turns out to be politically embarrassing? Underpayment penalties are fine and dandy when they're incurred by regular schmoes like me. But folks who bought into the Hope and Change? They gotta be given special dispensations! They can't feel the pain of their own electoral dysfunction. They might, gasp!, vote Republican!

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Make up your minds: Andrew Cuomo will tax you if you DO have health insurance

Democrats love taxes. They'll tax anything, anyway they can. Their mantra is Pay up, sucka!

But even by their standards, this latest Catch-22 is over the top.

As we all know, if you don't have health insurance, Obama will tax you.

But now, if you DO have health insurance, Andrew Cuomo will tax you.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Because Obamacare is so gosh-darned wonderful, right? A bargain at twice the price! Or something.

The important thing is that we pay. And then pay some more.

Democrats. Meh.

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