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Wonkbook: The GOP’s Obamacare chutzpah [JournOlist talking points]
Washington Post ^ | October 24, 2013 | By Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas

Posted on 10/24/2013 7:23:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

How about House Republicans who refused to appropriate the money the Department of Health and Human Services said it needed to properly implement Obamacare?

How about Senate Republicans who tried to intimidate Sebelius out of using existing HHS funds to implement Obamacare?

How about congressional Republicans who refuse to permit the packages of technical fixes and tweaks that laws of this size routinely require?

How about the coordinated Republican effort to get the law declared unconstitutional?

How about the dozens of Republican governors who refused to take federal dollars to expand Medicaid?

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: failure; journalism; obamacare; rinocare
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How about this turd is all yours Ezra. Forget the dysfunctional "marketplace", wait until full-blown sticker shock sinks in. Talking points cannot help this turd.

Repeal this POS.

1 posted on 10/24/2013 7:23:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Perhaps ezra is unaware that the GOP has been against this pos from the beginning, is still against, and will fight it until it disappears.

And any tactic that brings about that happy day is freakin' fine w/ me.

2 posted on 10/24/2013 7:26:56 AM PDT by Pietro
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3 posted on 10/24/2013 7:27:35 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The unified needs to be just that...”You Own This”.

“We said it was a bad idea. We said it could not be implemented. We said it would raise costs. We said it would cause businesses to cut job, cut hours and cut health car policies. We said insurance companies would drop coverage for millions of people. We were right on every single account.”


4 posted on 10/24/2013 7:27:58 AM PDT by ilgipper (Obama is proving that very bad ideas can be wrapped up in pretty words)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Over half a BILLION taxpayer bucks wasn’t enough for the cretins hired by their affirmative action boss to figure out a web site??? Puhleeze. Even for an ignorant Leftist, with no marketable skill other than being a state propagandist, this is a new low.


5 posted on 10/24/2013 7:28:12 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: kcvl

Good grief. Another homo Leftist with his brain lodged in his crotch.


6 posted on 10/24/2013 7:29:23 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Yeah, Ezra - Journ-O-List Klein, the Liberal’s toilet paper holder.

Nonetheless, what you see here is the Democrat's emerging strategy. Trust me, Obamacare is going to be an abysmal failure. Everyone pretty much knows this and the Democrats are getting mighty worried because they see the writing on the wall too. So, Klein and Media Matters, etc., are now laying the groundwork to blame Republicans for Obamacare’s failure.

If only Republicans did this or funded that.

If only Republicans hadn't made it their mission to destroy Obamacare this would have and could have worked.

If only Ted Cruz didn't....

Mark my words, Democrats know this thing is a disaster waiting to happen so they need to start blaming Republicans for what is sure to come.

7 posted on 10/24/2013 7:30:03 AM PDT by Obadiah (I Like Ted.)
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Once again, the DC GOP establishment needs to be reminded that the Democrats will NEVER accept responsibility and reverse course. It is a pipe dream to ‘let this collapse on it’s own’. It will never be removed under that scenario because the left and the media will use the exact same tactics to push through more ‘reforms’ and ‘fixes’ to make the situation even worse.

They’ll shift blame and move the goal posts and blame the GOP for not fixing it. The battle is to REPEAL and REMOVE GOVERNMENT BARRIERS TO HEATH CARE. Draw a clear line and charge forward on offense.


8 posted on 10/24/2013 7:31:09 AM PDT by ilgipper (Obama is proving that very bad ideas can be wrapped up in pretty words)
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Evan Soltas

"Here’s the next conservative argument against President Barack Obama's health care law: It’s causing employers to shift full-time workers into part-time. Too bad it’s wrong."

9 posted on 10/24/2013 7:31:17 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
opposition

  Use Opposition in a sentence

! op·po·si·tion

/ˌɒpəˈzɪʃən/ Show Spelled [op-uh-zish-uhn] Show IPA noun

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Opposition?s=t

1.the action of opposing, resisting, or combating.

2. antagonism or hostility.

3.a person or group of people opposing, criticizing, or protesting something, someone, or another group.

4.( sometimes initial capital letter ) the major political party opposed to the party in power and seeking to replace it.

5.the act of placing opposite, or the state or position of being placed opposite.

Only among inside-the-Beltway groups in Washington (including Republican ones) does "opposition" mean "buy knee pads" and "bend over".

10 posted on 10/24/2013 7:31:20 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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Evan Soltas

@esoltas

Wonkbook writer for Washington Post. Blogger for Bloomberg View. Student at Princeton.

New Jersey · esoltas.blogspot.com

https://twitter.com/esoltas


11 posted on 10/24/2013 7:32:58 AM PDT by kcvl
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Turd gets to eat turd sandwich. The world watches.


12 posted on 10/24/2013 7:33:08 AM PDT by donmeaker (The lessons of Weimar will soon be repeated.)
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To: txrefugee
How about this one:

A few weeks ago, they literally shut down the government because they refused to pass a funding bill that contiained money for Obamacare.

The government was not "literally" or even figuratively shutdown, three quarters of the government remained open. Whoever shut down the closed portions it was not the Republicans, those decisions were made by the administration and quite arbitrarily.

In any event it was the President and the Democrats in the Senate who shut down the government because they refused any bill which funded the government without Obamacare.


13 posted on 10/24/2013 7:37:17 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Article says:
IHow about congressional Republicans who refuse to permit the packages of technical fixes and tweaks that laws of this size routinely require?

What about the 30 million wood regulations that have already been adopted administratively to administer the law? I guess they don't really know how to talk about the truth.

14 posted on 10/24/2013 7:37:17 AM PDT by KC Burke (Officially since Memorial Day they are the Gimmie-crat Party.h)
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Yeah, how about that....


15 posted on 10/24/2013 7:37:28 AM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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To: kcvl

Let me guess- he is also openly gay? (I just needed to see the hat)


16 posted on 10/24/2013 7:38:28 AM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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To: Obadiah
Yep...

NBC Reporter Tries to Blame House GOP for ObamaCare Website Failure

17 posted on 10/24/2013 7:59:05 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Sooth2222

OMG! President Hussein Zero’s premier program Obamacare has gone all Humpty Dumpty! Can all the king’s horses, all the king’s men (& women) and all the king’s media spend even more billion$ to get the fix? President Obama and his Democrat and media fellow travelers regularly spit venom at the “rich” but are all in the 1% themselves! In a weird “rusty” irony... the alleged defenders of us common folk... are the MOST 1% friendly government in our history! The only group who these last five years, have thrived are the “despised” tip-top media/political/corporate class (aka: one-percenters)! Many given FED “funny money” (Qantitative Easing) by the gazillions that puts even the most brazen welfare queens to SHAME!

Anyone who can look past the rhetoric and beyond what he says to what he does knows this! Yet so many of his blindly loyal followers seem to prefer hating the Tea Party/GOP rather than loving the country!?!? They see only the PROMISE... denying the grim REALITY of yet another failed and catastrophic socialist experiment. Socialism works great in the faculty lounges of the ivory towers of academia, but results only in suffering of the very people the president claims to champion.


18 posted on 10/24/2013 8:00:04 AM PDT by FiddlePig
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To: kcvl

Study: Average Premiums for Young Women to Increase 193%
http://freebeacon.com/study-average-premiums-for-young-women-to-increase-193/

Here’s the hope and change the little metrosexuals voted for.
“War on women” indeed.


19 posted on 10/24/2013 8:08:42 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“#ObamacareSlogans” at Twitter

some samples:
#ObamacareSlogans: The quicker you die, the quicker you can vote Democrat.
#ObamacareSlogans: Now accepting appointments for 2023.
#ObamacareSlogans: Ask you doctor is a death panel is right for you.
#ObamacareSlogans: At ACA, we don’t make of lot of your healthcare products, we make your healthcare products worse.
#ObamacareSlogans: Who needs a slogan with this EZ to remember phone number 1-800-F1UCKYO
#ObamacareSlogans: Like a nosy neighbor, Obamacare is there.
#ObamacareSlogans: Hey, you weren’t that close to grandma anyway.
#ObamacareSlogans: Because you are never too old to be aborted.


20 posted on 10/24/2013 8:10:36 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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