We have been spending a lot of time lately dissecting the race to bankruptcy court, i.e. what state government or city government will go bankrupt first. Many Democratic states and cities have already entered into financial death spirals as their taxpayer base erodes but the politicians running these cities and states cannot or will not reduce government spending or make government operations more efficient to cope with the shrinking tax base.
The last two posts on this topic can be found at the following links:
https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-race-to-bankruptcy-court-proof-that.html
https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-race-to-bankruptcy-court-california.html
However, we will take a break from this bankruptcy race and discuss some good old fashioned political class insanity for the next few posts.
1)Long ago we had extensive discussion on how flawed and stupid the Obama Care legislation and process was and still is. Those supporting Obama Care tenets were trying to solve a public health problem with economic solutions and, of course, that all failed. Americans are overweight, they do not exercise enough, they eat too much of the wrong kind of food and their addictions (tobacco, alcohol, drugs) are the public health causes of high health care and high health insurance costs.
If you do not address those underlying causes, any solution is doomed to failure. If Americans lost weight, exercised more, stopped smoking, and ate better, there would be no need for economic voodoo solutions to try and tame rising health care costs.
But that did not stop Obama from making many grandiose proclamations on how Obama Care was going to cure the ills of the American health system:
EVERY American would be able to afford and be covered by affordable health insurance under Obama Care.
You would not have to give up your current doctors under Obama Care.
Obama Care would “bend the health care cost curve" to reduce the growth in health insurance and health care costs.
Of course none of this came true:
Millions of people lost access to their favorite doctors.
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health care advocacy organization, almost 27 million Americans still do not have health insurance coverage.
Almost 62% of those uninsured told Kaiser that they could not afford the coverage.
And total cost of health care in the country rose about 41% from 2010, the year Obama Care took effect, until 2023, hardly bending the cost curve since this increase in healthcare costs was higher than the increase in overall inflation over those years which was under 40%.
Not surprisingly, Obama Care flopped and did not deliver any results close to what was promised. But that did not stop Obama from trying to dress up the Obama Care pig in a recent interview when he proclaimed that Obama Care was a “first step” toward expanding and improving affordability of health care and health care insurance in the country. He cited protections for individuals with pre-existing conditions, allowing kids to stay on their parents’ health plans longer, and expanding Medicaid.
However, absent from his remarks was his promise to get every American affordable health insurance (27 million Americans today do not have health insurance with cost being the major factor), was his promise to bend the cost curve (Obama Care did not bend any curves), and Americans are just as unhealthy today as they were in 2010 since the economic solution to the problem did not reduce obesity, improve exercise habits, improve eating habits or break addictions.
And it seems Obama knows it was a flop since he went from grandstanding promises in 2010 to this is a good “first step.” We said it would be ineffective and a financial disaster 13-14 years ago and we were correct.
2)One of the most important functions in a free country is the principle of “one person, one vote.” Every citizen of a country should be able to express their opinions at the voting booth and know that their vote will be treated with integrity and that the process is an accurate reflection of what voters want.
Obviously, the 2020 Presidential campaign was anything but that, as we have discussed dozens of times. That election was corrupt, out of integrity, and an insult to democracy and the voters who honestly thought their votes would be fairly counted and treated. We will not go into the dozens of instances where we showed how the voting process was stolen and corrupted and as a result, Joe Biden got an amazing 81,000,000 votes, the largest, and most corrupted vote total by far, from a historical basis. Go back to our posts in late 2020 and early 2021 for the many ways we proved voting corruption.
But over time more and more evidence has come out showing how shady and corrupt that election was with the following just the latest news about shady dealings in the voting counting areas:
We recently reported on how a Georgia audit of the 2020 voting for President in that state found over 300,000 votes that should have never been counted in the election results given how shady and illegally counted they were.
And now we have a similar situation out in Colorado.
A lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch has forced the state government of Colorado to remove 372,000 ineligible voter registrations from its voting rolls.
The lawsuit showed how the Colorado Secretary of State, Jena Griswold, and other state voting officials, violated the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 by allowing voter registration rates to exceed the number of eligible voters actually living in various state counties, incurred delays in identifying and scrubbing out of state moves by voters, and identified thousands of inactive voters in eight counties.
Operating incompetence relative to voting registration and monitoring processes does not mean that elections were rigged and biased because of voting improprieties. However, the potential for voter fraud, especially via mail-in voting, is huge when hundreds of thousands of people are on the voting rolls who should not be. Another example of political class and government bureaucrat incompetence that endangers a very basic tenet of freedom, clean and honest elections and election processes.
3)After a politician is elected to office their favorability approval ratings almost always start to slide slowly downward since they usually cannot fulfill their campaign promises. However, the recently elected governor of Virginia has possibly set the record for the quickest slip in approval ratings by any politician…ever:
Abigail Spanberger was recently elected as Virginia governor.
Keep in mind that she campaigned on a number of voter friendly issues like making the cost of living in the state more affordable, being against extreme gerrymandering of Congressional districts, and other generally centrist issues.
Shortly after taking office, she and her cronies in the legislature proposed a whole slew of new taxes that will make living in the state much more expensive and supported a radical gerrymandering plan that is likely un-Constitutional.
Her flip flop on illegal immigration control has led to a series of recent murders in the state, the majority of which likely were committed by illegal immigrants.
Thus, within a few months her approval rating did not slip a little, her favorability rating dropped to 47%, a level that is 13% lower than the average of all new Virginia governors going back to the 1990s.
Her favorability rating is a whopping nine points below what her predecessor Glenn Youngkin, was pulling at the same time in his term.
Again, a newly installed politician usually sees a drop in popularity shortly after taking office. But her bait and switch effort from her nice sounding campaign issues to her real actions while in office show that the people in Virginia have quickly realized they may have made a big mistake in their voting preference. And it is going to cost them from a tax, cost of living, crime rate, and gerrymandering perspective.
It will be interesting to see how far and how fast her approval rating falls, she certainly has done a great job destroying her credibility in a very short time already. Wait until those many, many new taxes take effect. Gonna be a fun, downward ride to watch.
That will do it for today: a record-setting decline in popularity in Virginia, more voting incompetence and/or shenanigans , this time in Colorado, and Obama tries to hedge his bet when it comes to the disaster that is Obama Care.
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