Young Invincibles Insulted By ObamaCare Ads (Video)

You’ve already seen the “brosurance” and “hosurance” ads featured at doyougotinsurance.com, the Colorado non profit devoted to promoting and directing users to Colorado’s official ObamaCare Exchange website. Conservatives have not been shy about criticizing what we see as sexist, insulting and genuinely offensive ads.

But what about the people the ads are trying to reach? What do the “millennials,” “young invincibles,” aka the ObamaCare “marks” think about them?

Greta Van Susteren had some 20-somethings on to talk about the latest Obamacare ads targeting young people. None of them were impressed.

James Shindler, a corporate lawyer in Washington noted, “first and foremost, there’s something strange going on. Typically, in a democracy, it’s the people that tell the government what we want. But here, we have the government trying to coerce us into buying something that  THEY want. And it didn’t convince me. It didn’t address why I would want to buy the healthcare in the first place.”

Dan Joseph of the MRC went to American University, last month, to ask students what they thought of the ads. Most of the women found them “insulting” and creepy.”

“There’s too much of a focus on the sexual aspect of it,” one woman said. Another one said that the ad looked like it was created by ObamaCare opponents in order to denigrate ObamaCare.

Jay Carney was asked by Jonathan Karl if they really think young people are going to buy health insurance because “Barack O’Breezy tells them to do it. Carney said that “there are efforts under way to reach consumers where they live, if you will.”

Apparently the Obama Regime thinks that young invincibles “live” in their pants.

Watcher’s Council Nominations – Snow In The Holy Land Edition

Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday.

Council News:

This week, AskMarion, The Optimistic Conservative, Maggie’s Notebook and The Pirate’s Cove took advantage of my generous offer of link whorage and earned honorable mention status with some excellent articles.

You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

To bring something of yours to my attention, simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title and a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address (which won’t be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST. Then return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week when it comes out on Wednesday morning.

Simple, no?

It’s a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members. while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And it’s all good right?

So, let’s see what we have this week….

Council Submissions

• Liberty’s Spirit – 6-Year-old Suspended for Kissing a Girl: Too Much, Yet Not Enough
• The Noisy Room – Inside the Empire of Horror
• The Political Commentator – The Ghost of Obamacare Yet to Come: UK healthcare in shambles!
• The Razor – The Keys to the Kingdom Should Not Be Available to the Peasants
• Simply Jews – Obama’s handshake with Raul Castro: the alternatives
• Joshuapundit–“American Betrayal”.. A Review
• The Mellow Jihadi – Fargham, Iranian space monkey (& friends)
• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – War Weary Myth
• The Colossus of Rhodey – “Horrible person”
• Rhymes With Right – A Dozen Candidates In Congressional District 36 GOP Primary
• Nice Deb – ObamaCare Whistleblower: I was Told IRS Harassment ‘Came From The Top’ (Audio)
• The Glittering Eye –The Reality Sinks In
• The Right Planet – I Don’t Believe In Defeat
• VA Right! – Snowden Revisited: Hero or Zero Now?
• Bookworm Room – To sell their ideas, conservatives must first re-train Americans to recognize their humanity

Honorable Mentions

• Ask Marion – Still Think There Is No War on Christmas-WoC 2013
  
• Maggie’s Notebook – IRS Targeting Now ‘Reverse-Engineered’ to Isolate, Shut Down TEA Party: Clintons See Limitless Future
• The Optimistic Conservative – Biofuels for defense: Cronyism and the banality of evil
• The Pirate’s Cove – The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug – My Take

Non-Council Submissions

• David Gerstman/Le.gal In.sur.rec.tion – Al Qaeda is on the Run …to Everywhere submitted by Liberty’s Spirit
• Allen West –Maybe we need Michelle “Death Stare” Obama to negotiate with Iran submitted byThe Noisy Room
• Mises Institute –Starvation and Military Keynesianism: Lessons from Nazi Germany submitted byThe Political Commentator
• Phyllis Chessler –Beneath the burqa — a bruised and badly beaten teenager submitted by The Razor
• Martin In The Margins – Understanding the new Christian anti-Zionism: Part 1 submitted bySimply Jews
• David P. Goldman/ PJ Media – It’s About the Settlements, Stupid submitted by Joshuapundit
• Althouse –“National Security Agency officials are considering a controversial amnesty that would return Edward Snowden to the United States…” submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
• House Of Marathon – Courting a Nemesis Out of Necessity: An Israeli-Saudi Alliance submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• Cato @ Liberty – The Constitution Still Applies on College Campuses submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• David Bernstein/Volokh COnspiracy – Is Refusing to Provide Commercial Services for a Circumcision Discrimination against Jews? submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Truth Revolt –Unions Paid MSNBC’s Schultz $177,000 in 2012, $75,000 in 2013 submitted byNice Deb
• Bob Tisdale/Watts Up With That? – Open Letter to the Executive Producers of YEARS of LIVING DANGEROUSLY submitted by The Glittering Eye
• David J. Shestokas – Natural Law and the Legitimate Authority of the United States submitted byThe Right Planet
• FOX News – Tax-exempt academic group’s boycott of Israel draws firesubmitted by VA Right!
• National Journal– Politics trumped policy, truth for Obama’s reelect submitted by Bookworm Room
• Camille Paglia – It’s a Man’s World, and It Always Will Be submitted by The Watcher
• War Is Boring – ‘Ender’s Game’ and Maneuver Warfare submitted by Watcher

Enjoy! And don’t forget to like us on Facebook and follow us Twitter..’cause we’re cool like that!

Wastebook: Government Spent $400K On Tea Party Intelligence Study – Allen West On The Record

Senator Tom Coburn released the 2013 edition of the annual Wastebook on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, and it is filled with enraging  examples of  federal spending.

Greta Van Susteren wants to know why the federal government thought it was necessary to fork over almost $400,000 to do a study the cognitive abilities of tea party members. The “surprising” conclusion of the study showed that tea party members  have a better scientific comprehension than non tea party members.

Wow. Who could have guessed that people who tend to be pro-life, pro-family, pro- oil, hunting, fishing, meat eating, global warming skeptics would have better scientific comprehension than liberals? But- to be fair – I’m sure libs leave us in the dust in the self-esteem department.

Greta also had Coburn on to talk about his report.