In The Face Of Ferocious Opposition, Obamacare's Success Is Stunning

Alan: Despite the GOP's best effort to devise an Obamacare train wreck, the ACA is off to a great start! Historians will record that Obamacare marked the end of selfish American yahooism and the beginning of socialized capitalism in the European style.

Adios rugged individualism.

In the end, no one will regret the demise of American Social Darwinism 

any more than people regret Medicare and Social Security.

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"Pope Francis Links"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/pope-francis-links.html

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"Despite the law's enrollment achievements, Burwell faces challenges. Twenty-four states haven't agreed to an expansion of Medicaid, which was a key part of providing coverage to the uninsured. The federal government runs insurance marketplaces in 36 states, more than the Obama administration anticipated, after most declined to take on that responsibility. Republicans in Congress have resisted providing billions of dollars Obama has requested to build and run the insurance exchanges." Alex Wayne, Julianna Goldman and Drew Armstrong in Bloomberg.

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Here's what's dying...

The Hard Central Fact Of Contemporary Conservatism

The hard, central "fact" of contemporary "conservatism" is its insistence on a socio-economic threshold above which people deserve government assistance, and below which people deserve to die. 

The sooner the better. 

Unless conservatives are showing n'er-do-wells The Door of Doom, they just don't "feel right." 

To allay this chthonic anxiety, they resort to Human Sacrifice,  hoping that spilled blood will placate "the angry gods," including the one they've made of themselves. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/harvard-study-45000-americans-die.html 

Having poked their eyes out, they fail to see  that self-generated wrath creates "the gods" who hold them thrall

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-hard-central-fact-of-contemporary.html

Almost "to a man," contemporary "conservatives" have apotheosized themselves and now -- sitting on God's usurped throne -- are rabid to pass final judgment. 

Self-proclaimed Christians, eager to thrust "the undeserving" through The Gates of Hell, are the very people most likely to cross its threshold. 

Remarkably, none of them are tempted to believe this.