“COMMON GROUND”
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2013
(Oct. 5, 2013) — True to form, the obama regime sycophants in the mainstream media are now retreating from the term “obamacare” for fear that it has become too much of a derogatory term.
The Associated Press Word Police (“APWP”) have now issued a writing-style all points bulletin (“APB”) advisory “suggesting” that reporters avoid the term “obamacare” as much as possible. Instead, it is recommended that reporters utilize variations on the actual title of the law, originally enacted as the comically (and purposely) mislabeled “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” sometimes bearing the unpronounceable acronym “PPAACA.”
Mr. Tom Kent, deputy managing editor and standards editor of the AP, is responsible for “accuracy and balance” (really…?) across all AP news services. He notes in his missive (erroneously) that the term “Affordable Care Act” (or “ACA”) is “the official name of the law.”
No, it isn’t. Strike one, Tom.
The legislation rammed (unread) through the Congress and signed (un-comprehended) into “law” by the Emperor at 1600 is entitled “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” and became Public Law 111-148.
The term “obamacare” – regardless of who coined the term – has become a shorthand way of referring to that collection of statutes, regulations and executive order exemptions (likely entirely unconstitutional) which, even as we speak, is entering the initial stages of a Three-Mile Island nuclear reactor meltdown…but without the charm.
Plainly, the debate over what to call the law detracts from the more serious problems burdening implementation of the law now commanding attention.
Accordingly, in an attempt to foster some reconciliation between the warring camps as well as to bring clarity and stability to the issue of how, precisely, references to the law should be hereafter made, I offer a suggestion which should appeal to both Democrats and Republicans.
Since the Democrats believe the law to be “constitutional,” while the Republicans believe the law to be “cataclysmic,” perhaps some common ground exists. The Democrats could refer to the law as the “Constitutional Affordable Care Act” while the Republicans could refer to it as the “Cataclysmic Affordable Care Act.”
In either event, the acronym for the law could thus become: “CACA.”
Over to you, Tom.
Democrats are not very democratic, Liberals are not liberal, Progressives are not progressive, and the Affordable Care Act is not affordable. Shakespeare said something about “a rose with another name is still a rose”. While we’re at it, when was the last time a Republican had any idea how a republic is supposed to work?
Would that be caca, as in caca pooie?
That’s a real stinker. What a great name!
Want to better understand what the PPAACA, aka, “Obamacare” actually is…?
Try, “the nose of the Camel Act”……….
Lest you forget, the LEGISLATED ACT, Obamacare, was an Act written by ‘men’ and is a product of men’s mind, ergo, the Act is FALLIBLE.
Under the construction of the U.S. Constitution the Acts of the Legislature are ALWAYS subject to amendments and or repeal by ANY subsequent Legislature.
Notwithstanding the FACT that the ACT originated in the Senate by an improper slight of hand and passed by a purely partisan majority it ONLY enjoys legitimacy by the WILL of the PEOPLE.
The Peoples Representatives are currently expressing the Will of the People with their attempts to delay, defund and or maneuver, even by a slight of hand, the REPEAL of the “nose of the Camel Act” which is designed to establish SOCIALISM as the “law of the land”….
Read the Declaration of Independence and get a sense of the OUTRAGE boiling up with the American People …..