Posted on 06/02/2010 7:12:30 AM PDT by pissant
Every week brings fresh bad news about Obamacare. Many companies are considering dropping their health coverage as a result of the incentives the law creates. Small businesses are reporting that the law’s tax credits are encouraging them not to make new hires. Most people with preexisting conditions, who were supposed to be the chief beneficiaries of the law, will be left out from its high-risk pools: There are 4 million of them, but enough funding for only 200,000. The Department of Health and Human Services is already behind schedule in implementing the law. And the director of the Congressional Budget Office, appointed by Democrats, denies that the law will reduce the pressure of health spending on the budget.
Republicans ought to be seizing on each revelation to press the case for repealing Obamacare. It is, after all, the worst law the Democrats have enacted on Obama’s watch; and it is also the GOP’s best issue in this year’s elections. Instead Republicans have largely allowed the Democrats to switch the subject from their unpopular health-care legislation to financial regulation, oil spills, and immigration. They have been reacting to the news instead of trying to make it.
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
This party acts like they want to lose—all the time.
They’ll pick up seats. The only question is how many rat Dems do they allow to shift right and keep their seats. If they allow the Dems to shift far right and not assoicate all of them with bailouts, trillion dollar spending bills and Nancy Pelosi, The GOP deserves to lose.
I’m not surprised. They’re all in the tank together except for a few. This will blow up in their/our faces in November. More than likely they’ll wake up to the importance of this issue come September and start beating the “repeal” drum again.
You are right. They do want to lose as they are in on the scams especially to enrich themselves and further their personal agendas.
The stupid GOP always seems to find a way of being the long black hair in the spaghetti.
When are people going to learn the establishment GOP and the establishment Dems are just playing their role? Just like the Dems hemmed and screamed about the Patriot Act and Iraq...but did they end it? Are they getting out and repealing it with Obama in power?
Washington DC is a puppet show and the people keep on watching it thinking it matters. Until you upturn the establishment, nothing changes, and we march to the abyss.
“They invade our space, and we fall back. They assimilate countless worlds, and we fall back. Not again. Not this time. The line must be drawn here! This far, no farther! And I will make them pay for what they have done!” — Capt. Picard (ST: First Contact)
Looks like the right-wing Leftists (aka Pubbies, Republicans) are not taking Picard’s advice. But then again, Leftists are Leftists. And a Leftist by any other name smells just as bad.
My candidate isn’t backing down from his repeal pledge.
It’s a balancing act. If they beat the repeal drum everyday for 8 months it would get old and wouldn’t get coverage. Saying things like this article starts out with is best to hold that ammo until September than hit them with both barrels. They need to continue with overall malaise and disenchantment with Obama and the rats, but hit them on specifics after Sep. Heck we still have primaries going on.
60% of Americans polled want ObamaCare repealed, etc.....Republucans better get with the program or move the frak out of the way and be prepared for irrelevance ... along with the Dem Party.
ewww!
Lol!
Nor is mine.
Have you noticed the recent polls that show gains for the Republicans in the generic ballot? Most are recording a 6-7% advantage for Republicans over Democrats, with the Republicans doing absolutely nothing significant. Perhaps they are intentionally letting the Democrats act like the rabid socialists they are—digging themselves deeper and deeper into the hole. In stark contrast, the Republicans are biding their time until they get some power back in Washington to roll this stuff back.
Honestly, it is to their advantage to let the public continue to see what a rabid dog the Democrats are when they have unchecked power. It just keeps making the moderates madder, and more inclined to check that power in November. If the Republicans let the Democrats dig their own graves, they don’t risk doing something stupid (as is their custom) to blow their lead before the mid-terms.
Just my two cents.
Most republicans in the senate wanted it to pass, the leadership did for sure.
They had several chances to stop this in its tracks.
One way is they could have made them read the bill on the senate floor, but McConnel said no.
It takes two minority votes to get a bill out of committee, they got those.
As soon as it was passed there were several republicans who said we can fine tune it but not repeal it.
DeMint said there are at least 10 pregressive republicans in the US Senate.
The GOP: Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory!!!
They do not want to lose all of the time, they are progressive’s just like the democrats and they want socialism and all of the power that it brings them.
The sludge from 2006 and 2008 should have been flushed from the arteries into the toilette where it belongs - i.e. McConnell and Boehner.
They are inept.
Ditto Steele.
The Tea Party needs to start enrolling its membersd EN MASSE in the GOP and this primary day is the time to do it.
If the bastards aren’t part of the solution, they are part of the problem and should be voted out in the Primaries.
How many times have I been pinged with :” We just need Republicans to win again and they will repeal everything ” ???
These are the same Republicans who enacted medicare prescription drugs for seniors and claimed no-one would have to pay for it. I never had hopes they would fix anything. They are all for the pre-existing conditions exclusions that will raise rates or put the companies out of business unless they have personal mandates to pay for them.
ATTENTION ALL CONSERVATIVE VOTERS: THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY ELECTIONS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT.
At no other time can we throw out the idiot RINOs that undermine our country and compromise our values. If you’re not focused on building support for conservative candidates, you’re not that far removed from voting the GOP status quo... which is weakness, compromise, and democrat-lite.
Voting for true conservativism over the Snowe-Graham-McCain cabal is in no way a “war within the republican ranks”, as the dinosaur media would have you believe. Rather, it is a renewed sense of country before party, and of traditional American values before progressive experimentalism. It is a decision to rebuild the republican party from the foundation up, discarding the rotting parts of the stucture that weaken the entire system as we go.
Get the vote out for the primaries. It is the only way we can drain the swamp and get America moving again.
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