Ted Rall: Palin is right about the ACA; healthcare.gov is Obama's Katrina

[geek tragedy]

In case people doubt that there are Ted Cruz types on the left.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/25/1250564/-Via-Sarah-Palin-How-Obama-s-Idiotic-ACA-Might-Lead-to-Real-Healthcare-Reform

The problem with this reasoning (which echoes 9/11 Truther theories that the Bush Administration couldn't possibly be stupid enough to let hijacked planes fly around the U.S. for nearly two hours) is that Obama and his team aren't really smart. They're calm.
It's not the same.
If Team Obama had been plotting Canadian-style socialized medicine all along, they wouldn't have floated all those dumb "heckuva job, Barry"-style excuses that turned healthcare.gov into the president's Katrina moment:

More:

No, Governor Palin, the truth behind the ACA mess is that Obama and his gang of golfing buddies are idiots.

...

"With Obamacare we have crappier health care (fewer choices, fewer doctors, and an IPAB rationing panel of faceless bureaucrats, aka the ol' 'death panel' that has been admitted to existing in Obamacare), but it is very expensive for the individual American…Americans, if you're faced with a 300% increase (or even a 65% increase like my family) in your health care premiums for crappier coverage, doesn't 'free' socialized medicine all of a sudden sound appealing? And that's how Americans will be led down the primrose path to a single-payer system. People will be frustrated, worn out, and broke under this new government burden. Many will end up concluding they'll settle for — then demand — full socialized medicine because they'll see how the unworkable Obamacare will break our health care system (where, presently, no one is turned away from emergency rooms and we have many public and private safety nets for people in need), along with busting our personal bank accounts."

I never thought I'd say this, but: From Sarah Palin's lips to God's ears.

Ted Rall may be the stupidest fucking asshole on the planet.

[msanthrope]

1. This might be one of the stupidest things Ted Rall has ever written. And there's a sizeable

selection there.

[Cha]

2. What an idgit. Poor thing.

palin and rall will both be so disappointed when Obamacare is up and working and helping millions of people have Affordable Health Care.

[freshwest]

12. Tired of the media bashers who think they're so effing cool. As if they ever did a damn thing.

[Cha]

15. LOL! Bashing Obamacare... not bashing teakoch ShutDOWN..

got it.

[freshwest]

21. Yes, they are good little lapdogs:

Still got that Kochpuppet image?

It'll work for this guy.

[Thinkingabout]

3. This is like saying Palin was McCain's Katrina, huh.

[scheming daemons]

4. they said Deepwater Horizon was Obama's Katrina

.... then they said Hurricane Sandy was Obama's Katrina.

The thing is.. Obama is not incompetent ... so he wont have a Katrina.

[mopinko]

23. yup.

[gollygee]

5. Hmm let's compare here

In one, people have to put up with an annoying website.

In the other, the government failed to adequately help people after a tragedy and many people suffered and/or died who didn't have to.

[Archae]

6. Don't forget...

This is the same ditwit who said "Maus" creator Art Spiegelmann "had no talent," and that Pat Tillmann was a racist who went to Afghanistan and Iraq just so he could kill Arabs.

[ProSense]

7. You don't understand.

He registered at Daily Kos on October 7, and has been having a trolling out meltdown over Obamacare.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/07/1244947/-Minimum-Premium-For-Obamacare-for-Me-828-month
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/08/1245199/-My-attempt-to-register-for-Obamacare
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/18/1248598/-ACA-Website-to-New-Yorker-Drop-Dead-at-least-until-December
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/21/1249260/-Obamacare-Unexpected-Error

[Cha]

11. So he's happy as pig in shit that

they are glitches.

[rbrnmw]

8. NO

[demosincebirth]

9. What an idiot. Palin is never right!

[Wounded Bear]

10. So, was Pres Obama really playing air guitar at a birthday party/fundraiser when this went down?

I hadn't heard.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

13. And the reason they want to stop it is to save Obama's reputation?

Right!

[stevenleser]

14. I'm only on DKos occasionally but I have never seen that many HRs on an OP or comments

For those who don't know it, HRs in DKos speak is "Hide Rate" or a sort of mega unrec. I've rarely seen any HRs on Diarys or comments there but there are a ton of them here. 8 on the Diary and 15 on one of his comments. That is huge.

I think he is going to get banned from the site.

[grantcart]

16. Well he is the guy who called for Obama to resign immediately after he was sworn in.

He is really bitter that his cartoons made him a laughing stock instead of making people laugh.

[xfundy]

17. I believe there's a method in there.

Rall is not stupid. Let it play out.

If you want to call me stupid for saying so, feel free. Doesn't affect me a bit.

[Progressive dog]

18. "Ted Rall may be the stupidest f..king asshole on the planet."

Nah, unfortunately he has a lot of competition for that title.

[bravenak]

19. My word.

What will they ever do next month when the site is fixed? Another meltdown perhaps?
I hope he is punished by having to spend some time with her.

[dionysus]

20. shitty artist and not that smart either. nt

[sweetloukillbot]

29. 10 years ago I used to review comics for the paper I worked at

Nothing edgy, latest Spider Man, Green Lanter/Green Arrow reissues, that sort of thing. He sent me a copy of some 9/11 conspiracy graphic novel he did. I took one look at it and tossed it in the charity auction pile. He sent me nasty letters for months complaining that I wouldn't review it.

[Baitball Blogger]

22. Oh, absolutely. Expected computer glitches is equivalent to missing the brief that was

titled, "'bin Laden determined to strike the United States.'"

[Stainless]

24. Ted Rall a tea-bagger!

What a pathetic POS he turned out to be. He used to be a decent cartoonist. Now he's become a parody of a good cartoonist.

[SummerSnow]

25. heehee

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j_2zSOtLLmo/UQV_KpdK_0I/AAAAAAAAVVc/bd6QfwqjfSg/s400/Palin+on+Canadian+medicine.JPG

[Lithos]

26. if he's gonna invoke an internet meme...

I'm gonna invoke one too...

Ted Rall has jumped the shark.

I have just as much validity to invoke it as he does.

L-

[brush]

27. Why are we keeping this ACA trainwreck meme going by posting this? nt

[gtar100]

28. Grasping at straws. Pardon me if I don't reach out to lend him a hand.

This whole website crap is just bullshit.