Barack Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act at the White House (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Today, as I was on my way to drop off the old “Silver Toilet” for an oil change, I turned on the radio and was subjected to this little gem here.

So this is not about spending.  And this isn’t about fiscal responsibility.  This whole thing is about one thing:  the Republican obsession with dismantling the Affordable Care Act and denying affordable health insurance to millions of Americans.  (Applause.)  That’s all this has become about.  That seems to be the only thing that unites the Republican Party these days.

Through this whole fight, they’ve said the American people don’t want Obamacare, so we should shut down the government to repeal it or delay it.  But here’s the problem:  The government is now shut down, but the Affordable Care Act is still open for business.  (Applause.)  So they’re not even accomplishing what they say they want to accomplish.  And, by the way, in the first two days since the new marketplaces — basically big group plans that we’ve set up — the first two days that they opened, websites where you can compare and purchase new affordable insurance plans and maybe get tax credits to reduce your costs, millions of Americans have made it clear they do want health insurance.  (Applause.)

More than 6 million people visited the website HealthCare.gov the day it opened.  Nearly 200,000 people picked up the phone and called the call center.  In Kentucky alone — this is a state where — I didn’t win Kentucky.  (Laughter.)  So I know they weren’t doing it for me.  In Kentucky, nearly 11,000 people applied for new insurance plans in the first two days — just in one state, Kentucky.  And many Americans are finding out when they go on the website that they’ll save a lot of money or get health insurance for the first time.

So I would think that if, in fact, this was going to be such a disaster that the Republicans say it’s going to be, that it was going to be so unpopular, they wouldn’t have to shut down the government.  They could wait, nobody would show any interest, there would be, like, two people on the website — (laughter) — and everybody would then vote for candidates who want to repeal it.

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Remarks by the President on the Government Shutdown

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The arrogance was just too much to take.  I shouted out loud “of course the website was flooded!”  “We have no choice, it’s the law!” Surely Obama isn’t so narcissistic that he actually believes that people are flocking to the website in droves because they love him and his policies; not because he has forced them to comply by fining them with a tax penalty of they don’t.   No, wait, he is.  Like Sally Field accepting her Oscar, Obama gushes every time he looks in the mirror, ” you love me, you really love me.”  I had to turn the radio off, I couldn’t stomach any more.  Every day we are subjected to the propaganda, the soft ball interviews and outright lies of this administration, and no one, steps up to call them on it.  It is beyond frustrating, and more and more it seems like we are powerless to stop it.

I keep asking myself, where are the Republicans?, Where are the people I hired by my vote to represent me?  Why is there not a televised rebuttal every time Obama opens his mouth?  The Republican party has taken the common sense of the American people for granted.  They just assume that the masses are smart enough to see through all the lies and deception.  Well, apparently they are not,  after all they reelected the most miserable excuse for a leader this country has ever known, to a second term.  The GOP needs to start striking back, they should have started months ago.  Every speech Obama gives needs to be followed by a Republican press conference, pointing out each lie and fallacy one by one.  Since we can no longer count on the mainstream media to educate the masses, the Republicans need to fill the airwaves with short PSA type commercials.  Short spots of airtime, such as PJ Media‘s Afterburner, that extol the benefits of conservatism on society and highlight the perils of Obama’s Socialism.

The GOP needs to embrace its new blood, the Ted Cruzes and Rand Pauls and other’s of their ilk need to be endorsed and encouraged, not stabbed in the back by their own.  The American people are hungry for representatives who will challenge the status quo, and speak for us, not speak down to us. 2014 is closing in.  The Republican party does not have the luxury of time.  This is indeed our most desperate hour.