{"id":54548,"date":"2014-08-14T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54548"},"modified":"2014-08-14T09:09:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T13:09:49","slug":"give-even-the-devil-his-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54548","title":{"rendered":"Give Even the Devil His Due"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular TAH readers know I\u00a0\u00a0 <del>hate ObamaCare with a passion<\/del>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <del>think ObamaCare is an idiotic, asinine abomination<\/del>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 don&#8217;t much care for ObamaCare.\u00a0 And I think it&#8217;s rollout has been \u00a0\u00a0 <del>as f&#8217;ed up as a football bat<\/del>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 exceedingly poorly managed and executed.\u00a0 In fact, I really couldn&#8217;t think of anything that the\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <del>fools and tools<\/del>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 individuals responsible for ObamaCare had done correctly.<\/p>\n<p>Until now.\u00a0 This week, the Obama Administration did something laudable with ObamaCare.<\/p>\n<p>No, they didn&#8217;t suspend it and call for Congress to repeal it.\u00a0 But this week it was announced that for some 310,000 persons with inconsistent ObamaCare applications, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/health-plans-to-end-without-proof-of-citizenship-1407870402\">submission of proof of citizenship or legal residence would be required<\/a>.\u00a0 If no proof of citizenship is submitted by 5 September, on 30 September their ObamaCare plans supposedly will be cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll believe that when I see it happen, of course.\u00a0 And I have no doubt this Administration will find multiple new and novel ways to screw this up by-the-numbers, too.\u00a0 They&#8217;re damn good at that.<\/p>\n<p>But give even the devil his due.\u00a0 ObamaCare is massively FUBAR &#8211; but this is at least one tiny, baby step in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>Now, let&#8217;s see if we can &#8220;do the right thing&#8221; and put ObamaCare completely and permanently out of its misery.\u00a0 Then burn the corpse, and bury the ashes in quicklime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular TAH readers know I\u00a0\u00a0 hate ObamaCare with a passion\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 think ObamaCare is an idiotic, asinine &hellip; <a title=\"Give Even the Devil His Due\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54548\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Give Even the Devil His Due<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-debate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}