NO CHALLENGE HERE

It's disappointing and almost no fun when a political situation becomes void of challenge and surprise.  After the president's remarks today, that seems to be the case.  One would have expected some really clever maneuver executed to confound and put the Conservatives at some sort of disadvantage.  Instead, a plan was laid out that a five year old could see right through.

Mr. Obama announced that he was very concerned about those who had lost their health insurance plans without mentioning that the number at question is 5 MILLION and growing.  Instead, he referred to the comparatively small number.  Without a great deal of fanfare, he casually outlined how the problem would be solved.  He said he would "administratively" disallow the portion of the ACA that dictates to the insurance companies the required coverage contained in the policies they are allowed to sell. He went on to say that, if the insurance companies choose, they can restore the cancelled policies to the 5 million subscribers.  RED FLAG, RED FLAG.

FIRST ISSUE:

HOW THE HELL CAN THIS MAN, UNILATERALLY,  CHOOSE THE PARTS OF THE LAW THAT MUST BE OBEYED AND THE PARTS THAT DO NOT HAVE TO BE OBEYED?  If an act of Congress was required to pass this law, why does it not require the same kind of action to amend it?  And more importantly, why are the members of Congress silent on this issue? If the LEFT tries to introduce legislation to amend the ACA and the RIGHT refuses to cooperate, the LEFT will attempt to attach blame for this mess to the RIGHT.

SECOND ISSUE:

The insurance companies have spent over two years retooling their businesses to comply with the requirements of the ACA.  They have analyzed their policies and cancelled the appropriate ones. In CA alone, BCBS has cancelled over a million policies and the company has moved its business out of the state. How simple will it be for them to reverse theses actions?  How much money that cannot be recouped would a reversal cost the company?  Who, in their right mind, would think the insurance companies would agree to go along with such an insane plan?

Also, each of the states have specific insurance regulations and any policies offered must be approved by 50 individual State Insurance Commissions.  Even if the insurance companies agreed to this plan, the red tape of state approvals could take as much as a year.  This won't do a thing to help the people who have their coverage ending in January 2014.

THIRD ISSUE:

Exactly how stupid and gullible does Barack Hussein Obama think the American people are?  A blind man on a galloping horse could see this one coming.  After a few weeks pass and none of the 5 MILLION have had their insurance policies reinstated, you can bet the farm, the President and his willing stooges will be out there on every venue trying to blame the insurance companies and the states.   If the Conservatives fail to cooperate with any Liberal legislation, an attempt will be made to blame them for the failure of ObamaCare.

As recently as 6 months ago, this kind of maneuver may have stood a small chance of success but, with BO's record of telling big black lies to the American people, his chances of of getting away with this one is somewhere between slim and none.