In another giveaway to big business, President Obama has once again screwed over the American people by delaying, at big business’s request, the provision in the new healthcare law that requires companies with fifty or more full time employees to carry health insurance on their workers or face fines.  The Obama Administration has delayed that provision for another year, until 2015.  This is just one more cowardly, corporate ass kissing act on the part of the President, leaving big businesses gleeful and millions of Americans uninsured for another year.

Yahoo news quoted Senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett as saying on a White House blog “In our ongoing discussions with businesses we have heard that you need the time to get this right. We are listening.”

That is called ass kissing, and selling out the rest of us.

There have already been widespread reports of businesses seeking ways around the healthcare law, such as hiring more part time employees and cutting their number of full time employees – by the law, employees are considered full time if they work thirty hours or more.  The big business lobby groups are not looking for “time to get this right,” they are looking for ways to avoid and weaken the law, to keep their profits up at the expense of the people who work for them and make them profitable in the first place.

It was bad enough President Obama didn’t fight for the public option (a government run insurance program), which the majority of Americans favor.  When the public option was taken off the table during the health care debate because the President was a weak leader and unwilling to fight for it, and because there were too many worthless democrats who were equally unwilling to support it because they are bought and owned by the thieving health insurance companies – President Obama said that he planned to keep fighting for it in the future.  So did other democrats.  Well, what a laughable lie that has turned out to be.  Not  only has Obama not fought to strengthen Obamacare with a public option, he’s now weakened it by delaying one of it’s important components that would compel large employers to offer their employees affordable health care. 

A narrow victory was won in the Supreme Court by a split decision of 5 to 4 (now the norm in a partisan court of conservative asshole old men) that upheld the mandate requiring all Americans to have health insurance or face a tax penalty.  After this narrow victory, the White House has now volunteered to let big business off the hook for another year because they are complaining and don’t like it.  Where is the man who said he would fight for the middle class?  Perhaps he is too busy choosing his next target to assassinate with a drone strike, or too busy chasing down Edward Snowden, the NSA leaker.  Perhaps he is too busy golfing with republicans to try to charm them into liking him.  He is certainly not fighting for the middle class or the poor either for that matter.  Many red states are fighting Obamacare and resisting expanding Medicaid for their poorest citizens.  And what is Obama doing?  Listening and caving to his corporate bosses, and if the rest of us have to wait a little longer to get health care so that big business can find more ways around complying with the new law, that’s just too bad for us.

There is speculation in the media that part of the motivation for delaying the healthcare law is to give democrats cover in the 2014 mid term elections against republicans who are still attacking the healthcare law.  If these democrats need ‘cover’ because they are too pathetic and incompetent to explain to the misinformed in their states who are against the new healthcare law, they do not deserve to be called democrats, and do not deserve to hold public office in any capacity.  I hope everyone of these cowardly bastards that are bought out by the insurance companies, the pharmaceutical companies, and big business, lose in their primaries to challengers who have the guts to actually fight for our best interest instead of big money special interests.

It has become painfully clear to those of us who supported President Obama’s second term, that we can’t count on him.