Selling Socialism: the New American Dream.

I’ve never worked in marketing, butt I know when you have to send in “your best salesperson” it’s generally because your product won’t sell itself. No matter what your spokesman says.

“Sells itself.” That’s why we’re spending $200 million on this advertising campaign.

“The first lady is the best salesperson” for the White House, senior adviser Valerie Jarrett told POLITICO. She’s getting involved now, Jarrett said, because she’s the right person to convey the message of the moment: that the uninsured — especially young people and minorities — should look for insurance on exchanges and that those with insurance are already feeling the benefits of the law.

And you know what we’re sellin’ needs a good saleswoman when she shows up wearing a high-necked, long sleeved, below the knee, belted at the waist, gray frock. With pearls.

So how bad is it?  Well, so far it’s 67%-want-to-delay-Obamacare-53%-forever bad. Not only that, butt the same percent of Americans are wishing Obamacare’s namesake would likewise go away for ever. Let’s face it: when you’ve lost Barbara Walters the end is neigh.

I mean, she’s practically family!

Oh, and by the way, did you catch Barbara’s “Most Fascinating Person of the Year” for 2013? Hilz? Really!? Babs really has lost faith in her personal “messiah” hasn’t she?

Although, the election’s not until 2016, so what difference, at this point, does it make?

Anyway back to Lady M: taking a page from Big Guy’s pledge to “restore America’s faith in government” she’s committed to restore America’s faith in Obamacare.

Just for the record, Big Guy hasn’t quite accomplished his restoration project yet either.

19%? Worse than during the Nixon, Carter AND Bush Administrations!?!

Here we are “Meeting with Moms:” 

Because who better to evangelize for Obamacare than moms who just recently discovered how easy it is to take other peoples money for things you used to have to pay for yourself? Who wouldn’t want that for their kids…and themselves?

Take Sue from Missoula, Montana, for example: she was mad when her healthcare plan was cancelled this fall, until she found out she was disadvantaged enough to have other taxpayers subsidize the cost of her new Obamacare plan:

"I got so mad that I went to my phone and started calling all the political people and giving them what for," Spanke told The Billings Gazette. That was before she learned she was eligible for a policy at a much lower cost.

After angrily calling her state auditor's office, Spanke, a self-employed artist in her 50s, found she was eligible for a federal subsidy. Her new insurance will cover her for a mere $30 to $40 a month with a deductible of only $500. She had been paying $350 a month for a Blue Cross policy with a $5,000 deductible. "I went from a horrible policy that didn't cover anything, that was breaking me, to the best policy at the best price I've had since I was in my 20s," she said.

So see there?

“Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.” – Nancy Pelosi

Just like Nan promised, only being an artist was Sue’s day job – so it’s even better!

Julia (and Sue): Living the Socialist Dream since 2013. Mission Accomplished.

“I can’t believe it’s come to this.”

“Me neither.”

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You Gotta’ Break a Few Eggs To Make An Obama Anomaly

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Guy’s big meeting with the big guys (and “gals” – do I still have to say that, or can we go back to generic inclusion now that the Dems have won the War on Women? Or is it sexist of me to even ask?) from the tech industry.

BO, Joe, Val, and a whole bunch of “people” who actually do “write code”

Val-Jar called the meeting to talk about Healthcare.gov, butt the techie CEOs are a pushy bunch: they came to talk about the NSA spying phony scandal.

“That is not going to happen,” said an executive at one of the major tech companies represented at the meeting. “We are there to talk about the NSA,”

Boy, talk about a bunch of grinches.

Senior executives from the companies whose bosses were present at the meeting said they were determined to keep the discussion focused on the NSA, despite the White House declaring in advance that it would focus on ways of improving the functionality of the troubled health insurance website, healthcare.gov, among other matters.

Unlike some people around here these tech-execs don’t let the junior staff around here call the shots. If you know what I mean, and I think you do.

Anyway, Big Guy did announce that he recently hired Kurt DelBene to head up his newly configured Healthcare.gov A-team. Kurt was a high level exec at Microsoft until Monday, and his wife Suzane was just elected to Congress last year - as a Democrat! So that works out well; they can both live in Washington D.C. now and get regular invitations to Big White events.

I know some people are still wondering why Barry didn’t assign his A-team to Obamacare right from the start, butt the answer to that is easy: hello! We had an election going on around the same time. So the A-team was assigned to the more critical task of convincing everyone that Obamacare (a term we were fond of at the time) was the best thing since FDR invented Social Security, and that you would love it too if you just reelected its namesake (Obamacare, not Social Security). Oh, and did I mention that, during the campaign, if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. Period.

He may not look like an A-lister, butt he is one of ours!

So we ended up with the best interactive identification and solicitation campaign system that money could buy. It was designed with state-of-the-art NSA private sector data mining technology to spy glean harvest obtain meta-data from your personal emails, contacts and internet transactions in order to convert it to micro-data that could then be used to harass solicit your help to reelect the President. It was the best campaign machine ever designed in the entire history of the world! Unfortunately, that left our B,C and D team to build Healthcare.gov.

So hopefully that explains why you received 12 solicitations to donate $5 or more to win a chance to win a dinner date with Big Guy,

butt you can’t enter your name on Healthcare.gov.

I think you’ll appreciated the dilemma, it was an issue of first getting reelected in order to pursue all our good works on behalf of the fundamental transformation of Amerika. As you well know, you’ve got to break a few eggs to make an omelet. So while there may be a few little lingering issues with our Healthcare.gov system, the choice between reelection and functioning Obamacare site was a no-brainer. Especially since if you like your insurance, you can keep it. Period.

And see? It all worked out, here we are: reelected, through our A-team’s efforts to design the most high-tech voter mobilization system in the history of the world.

“I love you back!”

And here we are, working through the glitches of Healthcare.gov with the help of our techie friends. After Big Guy and Val-Jar’s two and a half hour meeting listening to Big Technology express their displeasure with their role in the NSA spying phony scandal, the tech giants agreed to help Barry upgrade some of the technology currently designed into his system. I’m not saying that Obamacare isn’t state-of-the-art, I’m just saying a little technology might be able to address some of the complaints we’ve been getting about the last century requirements that seem to be built into the system. Next to “not being able to log in,” these are the top complaints about the hi-tech healthcare system:

1. You have to mail your application in when the system is down
2. So your insurance company can review it by hand
3. Then you need to verify you are actually enrolled by placing a phone call to the insurer and/or exchange
4. The insurance companies have to “guestimate” the amount of subsidies their enrollees are eligible for until such time as the actual data is available – sometime in “late November” 2014.

So our techie friends promised to come up with a few tweaks and “workarounds” to get us over the “hump”

This should get us up to 2000 technology levels: good enough for government work

Although they actually suggested skipping the workarounds and just start over from scratch as the Healthcare.gov team doesn’t seem to know much about making omelets.

Omelet Fail

Butt we’ve already spend nearly $900 million on the current Healthcare.gov site, and you know how fond we are of throwing good money after bad around here.

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You Gotta’ Break a Few Eggs To Make An Obama Anomaly

There’s been a lot of chatter following Big Guy’s big meeting with the big guys (and “gals” – do I still have to say that, or can we go back to generic inclusion now that the Dems have won the War on Women? Or is it sexist of me to even ask?) from the tech industry.

BO, Joe, Val, and a whole bunch of “people” who actually do “write code”

Val-Jar called the meeting to talk about Healthcare.gov, butt the techie CEOs are a pushy bunch: they came to talk about the NSA spying phony scandal.

“That is not going to happen,” said an executive at one of the major tech companies represented at the meeting. “We are there to talk about the NSA,”

Boy, talk about a bunch of grinches.

Senior executives from the companies whose bosses were present at the meeting said they were determined to keep the discussion focused on the NSA, despite the White House declaring in advance that it would focus on ways of improving the functionality of the troubled health insurance website, healthcare.gov, among other matters.

Unlike some people around here these tech-execs don’t let the junior staff around here call the shots. If you know what I mean, and I think you do.

Anyway, Big Guy did announce that he recently hired Kurt DelBene to head up his newly configured Healthcare.gov A-team. Kurt was a high level exec at Microsoft until Monday, and his wife Suzane was just elected to Congress last year - as a Democrat! So that works out well; they can both live in Washington D.C. now and get regular invitations to Big White events.

I know some people are still wondering why Barry didn’t assign his A-team to Obamacare right from the start, butt the answer to that is easy: hello! We had an election going on around the same time. So the A-team was assigned to the more critical task of convincing everyone that Obamacare (a term we were fond of at the time) was the best thing since FDR invented Social Security, and that you would love it too if you just reelected its namesake (Obamacare, not Social Security). Oh, and did I mention that, during the campaign, if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. Period.

He may not look like an A-lister, butt he is one of ours!

So we ended up with the best interactive identification and solicitation campaign system that money could buy. It was designed with state-of-the-art NSA private sector data mining technology to spy glean harvest obtain meta-data from your personal emails, contacts and internet transactions in order to convert it to micro-data that could then be used to harass solicit your help to reelect the President. It was the best campaign machine ever designed in the entire history of the world! Unfortunately, that left our B,C and D team to build Healthcare.gov.

So hopefully that explains why you received 12 solicitations to donate $5 or more to win a chance to win a dinner date with Big Guy,

butt you can’t enter your name on Healthcare.gov.

I think you’ll appreciated the dilemma, it was an issue of first getting reelected in order to pursue all our good works on behalf of the fundamental transformation of Amerika. As you well know, you’ve got to break a few eggs to make an omelet. So while there may be a few little lingering issues with our Healthcare.gov system, the choice between reelection and functioning Obamacare site was a no-brainer. Especially since if you like your insurance, you can keep it. Period.

And see? It all worked out, here we are: reelected, through our A-team’s efforts to design the most high-tech voter mobilization system in the history of the world.

“I love you back!”

And here we are, working through the glitches of Healthcare.gov with the help of our techie friends. After Big Guy and Val-Jar’s two and a half hour meeting listening to Big Technology express their displeasure with their role in the NSA spying phony scandal, the tech giants agreed to help Barry upgrade some of the technology currently designed into his system. I’m not saying that Obamacare isn’t state-of-the-art, I’m just saying a little technology might be able to address some of the complaints we’ve been getting about the last century requirements that seem to be built into the system. Next to “not being able to log in,” these are the top complaints about the hi-tech healthcare system:

1. You have to mail your application in when the system is down
2. So your insurance company can review it by hand
3. Then you need to verify you are actually enrolled by placing a phone call to the insurer and/or exchange
4. The insurance companies have to “guestimate” the amount of subsidies their enrollees are eligible for until such time as the actual data is available – sometime in “late November” 2014.

So our techie friends promised to come up with a few tweaks and “workarounds” to get us over the “hump”

This should get us up to 2000 technology levels: good enough for government work

Although they actually suggested skipping the workarounds and just start over from scratch as the Healthcare.gov team doesn’t seem to know much about making omelets.

Omelet Fail

Butt we’ve already spend nearly $900 million on the current Healthcare.gov site, and you know how fond we are of throwing good money after bad around here.

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Who Let the Dogs Out?

I’m going to advise everyone associated with the Big White to just say no to any more photographs for the rest of the month. For one thing, Big White official photographer, Pete Souza, seems to be on Winter Holiday break and turning things over to the B team never works out well (see Obamacare). I mean seriously, when the best shots involve a dog that generally doesn’t know how to comport herself, it’s probably time for everyone to take a break.

I was talking about Sunny - who did you think I was talking about?

 

Butt can I cut a break here? No. Leave it to crazy old Uncle Joey to take it upon himself to reprise not only last week’s embarrassing photo theme (“Don’t be that selfie guy”),

 

 

as well as his own “don’t be that creepy old white guy” theme:

 

Thank goodness there were Secret Service guys on hand. That troll looks homicidal.

Here he is at one of our parties with Amie Parnes, The Hill‘s White House Correspondent: awkward!

Joey, advancing the Regime’s agenda of Upward-mobility.

As long as we’re reprising themes, how about this little number from my Capitalist Pig collection of ‘08 and ‘12?

Additional Big White Sensitivity Training sessions to commence in 3, 2, 1…no wait; never mind - it’s the Republicans that disrespect women. Right?

Big Dawg: The Gold Standard!

I’m telling you this for your own well being, Joey: cut the creepy old white guy crap, or suffer the consequences…the Vulcan Death Stare.

Trust me, you don’t want that. It will break you.

It breaks everyone, even our former lapdogs:

It’s official — the government of the United States of Obama consists of boobs and bores and is led by a narcissist. It is no consolation that Great Britain joins us in racing to the bottom.

So don’t worry about the newest polls indicating that Big Guy’s personal popularity and his handling of the economy and his legacy Obamacare have all plummeted.

We are sic’ing the Vulcan Death Stare on our lapdog media, and expect those poll results to turn around by the time we get back from our Hawaiian vacation.

So carry on with your Christmas responsibilities and if you have time, show us your best Vulcan Death Stare – be they dogs,

 

cats, (pardon the French – I’m sure the exact translation is something less crude):

 

or something more lethal.

When was the last time anyone’s heard from Carla?

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Presidential Sing-Along: Signing Not Required

Big Guy didn’t have to take a selfie with his “lady-friend” for this memorial:

Big White official photographer, Pete Souza, was on hand to capture us looking appropriately somber and concerned as we lit 20 candles to remember the first anniversary of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry’s murder with one of the guns smuggled in the Fast and Furious phony scandal the Sandy Hook shootings.

Then, switching gears - because we’re leaving for Hawaii this week! – we donned our gay apparel and went to the annual "Christmas in Washington" Sing-Along yesterday.

Some of the ladies wore their festive “Sister Silverheels” slippers

Big Guy pointed out at the annual charity event that while he loves getting Christmas presents, it's “a time to remember the story of a child born to two faithful travelers on earth.” Hmmm. “two faithful travelers?” That sounds a lot like “fellow travelers” doesn’t it?

Dennis Miller thinks so

I’m confused. Does that mean Big Guy is a Christian after all? Or not?

Butt you’re probably wondering were you saw the lovely frock Lady M is wearing at the “Sing” before: it was at the London summer Olympics. I noted at the time that it was inspired by the Transformers (details at “Wrestling with the Transformation of our Economy,” where I also provided complete construction instructions).

Anyway, it was a swell affair, complete with cute elves:

Elf on far right: practicing for future signing career in South Africa

Adoring fans:

And did I mention, cute elves?

Hey! No twerking!

Okay, enough cuteness for one day. Like the rest of you, I must run as my list is long and the days are short. Posts will be brief through Christmas, butt I promise: we will have favorite Christmas/Hanukah recipe day(s) again next Monday and/or Tuesday, so get ready! Pictures always a plus.

So let’s get out there people: Shop. Bake. And “Sign” along to the Season’s music.

“Signing the Season” performed by Thamsanqa Jantjie

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O Tannenbaum, or, “Doing That Christmas Hand Jive.”

In keeping with my new Christmas tradition, I’m taking Sunday off. So here’s some inspirational music, in case you are planning to put your tree up today. Or wrap presents to put under it, assuming you can afford any.

Or  if you just wish to spend a little time reflecting on Christmases past, how about these shots of our Christmas trees from past eras? Note how lovely our FLOTUSes are, in various shades of red, white, blue…and purple gowns.

 

 

Or, if you need even more help getting into the spirit of the season, you could always “sign” along with Thamsanqa Jantjie. Here he is performing some of the old standards:

And then there’s this racist selection:

“I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas”

I’m not sure I approve of that last number, butt you can play along too. I’m pretty sure Jantjie signed many other Christmas Carols as well.

Have a great day!

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