So what does it mean when the American Aberdeen News and the Mitchell Daily Republic agree with Cory Heidelberger?

Cory Heidelberger justifies his political position because the the liberal media agrees with him:

The Aberdeen American News agrees with me that Rep. Kristi Noem's vote last week to continue the government shutdown and default on America's debt is inexcusable

Here is the anti-tea party hate from teh liberal media that Cory likes:

It has truly brought the hypocrisy of the tea party and its sycophants to light

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Noem chose to side with the political vultures and voted to bring her country to the brink of economic disaster.

So as the liberal media and Heidelberger resort to hate filled attacks on the tea party, this response from Noem is being ignored:

To be clear, the government shutdown was not the outcome I hoped for, though I do stand by my desire to see South Dakotans get the same treatment under Obamacare that the president has offered to corporations and large businesses. During the period the government was partially shut down, I remained hopeful that both parties would come together and negotiate on the issue of providing fairness under Obamacare. In the absence of those negotiations, the House began passing numerous bills to reopen basic, noncontroversial parts of the federal government. Those bills were unfortunately never considered in the Senate.

So why are the Obama Democrats supporting the Medical Corporate Establishment? And why are they doing so at the expense of young Americans who have to be on board or else the Affordable Care Act will become unaffordable:

Premiums for plans in the exchanges will climb in 45 states compared to plans offered in the individual market before Obamacare’s implementation, according to a study released Wednesday by the Heritage Foundation. States like Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, and Vermont will see triple-digit percentage increases.

For example, premiums in Arkansas will soar by more than 170 percent to $285 per month for adults aged 27. Rates will also increase by 79 percent for adults aged 50 and 25 percent for a family of four.

Drew Gonshorowski, policy analyst at Heritage and author of the report, said at a Heritage event Wednesday that the surge in premiums can be attributed to a myriad of regulations, mandates, and taxes under Obamacare. Those include taxes on health insurers, benefit mandates, coverage of those with pre-existing conditions (also known as guaranteed issue) and community rating. Community rating requires that insurers charge no more than three times as much to their costliest plan holders, typically older, sicker people, than to their less-costly ones.

Obamacare mandates that everyone not already covered by a plan or a federal program must either enroll in the exchanges or pay a tax. Many young adults would save hundreds by not enrolling and paying the penalty, even with the availability of federal tax credits.

That poses a problem for the underlying logic of the exchanges, which are designed to share costs and lessen the burden on older, sicker patients, Gonshorowski said. If young people do not enroll, premiums will spike as older and costlier people fill the insurance pools—inducing fewer and fewer people to enroll and premiums to further escalate.

Health care experts call this “adverse selection” or a “death spiral.”

Keep the above point in mind when I later point out that only 23 South Dakotans are on board.

And we can add the Mitchell Daily Republic to the list of those who agree with Heidelberger:

Noem is right that many people dislike the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which she and other critics deride as “Obamacare.” She’s wrong, though, in her belief that all — or even very many — of the law’s detractors are so committed in their opposition that they’re willing to suffer a government shutdown and default just to protest the three-year-old law. Instead, what most critics of the law want is to elect more Republicans who will work to repeal, amend or replace the law; in other words, they want democracy, not anarchy.

Speaking of democracy, lets repeat the second half of Noem's position I posted above:

I remained hopeful that both parties would come together and negotiate on the issue of providing fairness under Obamacare. In the absence of those negotiations, the House began passing numerous bills to reopen basic, noncontroversial parts of the federal government. Those bills were unfortunately never considered in the Senate.

So much for democracy from the Senate Democrats. The media and Heidelberger are making false allegations when they attack Noem for being in favor of a government shutdown. The House Republicans used the democratic process to pass spending bills, but the Democrats refused to even consider them. They instead put the unpopular Obamacare, which is not even ready for prime-time, above all the things that the liberals are falsely saying Noem was against. Yes, they are correct to call Noem out for being a hypocrit as she seeks spending for those who she needs votes. But that is the pot calling the kettle black. 

And just how important is Obamacare to South Dakota? The answer during the time frame of the government shutdown theatre, is 23 South Dakotans are more important than the rest of us:

The three South Dakotan health insurers participating in Obamacare haven’t exactly seen a boom in sales since the federal-exchange website went live on October 1.

Avera says it has made 21 sales while Sanford reports two. DakotaCare has made none. 

Kirk Zimmer, DakotaCare’s CEO said the slow rate of signups isn’t surprising, especially given “the poor functionality of the federal exchange and the frustration it has caused for interested consumers,” he said.

Once you look beyond the false accusations, the deceptions, the hate speech, and use a common sense approach that is focused on what is best for South Dakota, then Kristi Noem becomes the leader who stood for truth, even when the decivers made it unpopular in the eyes of those who are not thinking for themselves and are simply living by the fear being propagated by the media. The debt default fear is at the top of that list. Cory Heidelberger even admits that the media created falsehoods are more important than the factural policy positions (the black kettle I mentioned earlier):

Even if we ignore the policy pluses and look strictly at politics, Democrats, when the ACA is more popular than Republicans, you would be stupid to run away from it.

So that is what it means when the South Dakota media establishment agrees with Cory Heidelberger (even as poorly worded as it is). (I would give you links to Heidelberger's quotes, but I am still banned from his web site.)

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[Mark]

The Aberdeen American News and the Mitchell Daily Republic part of the "liberal media"? Now, that's news!