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Hoyer: Maybe calling it "Obamacare" wasn't such a good idea
mcclatchydc.com ^ | December 3, 2013 | William Douglas

Posted on 12/03/2013 2:16:36 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe

Maybe it wasn't such a hot idea after all for President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats to embrace the "Obamacare" moniker for the Affordable Care Act, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer mused Tuesday.

"Yeah, I wish I hadn't called it 'Obamacare' before, because that has politicized it and has been used by Republicans as a pejorative term," Hoyer, D-Md., said after a reporter noted Tuesday that he repeatedly called the health care law by its formal name. ....

"I don't know that we need to re-brand the Affordable Care Act," he said. "We do need to say it is the Affordable Care Act."

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KEYWORDS: obamacare; stenycare
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1 posted on 12/03/2013 2:16:36 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Yup latest tactic to distance themselves from it.Hows Pelosi acre sound?


2 posted on 12/03/2013 2:18:39 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: t1b8zs

yea I know care vs acre


3 posted on 12/03/2013 2:19:15 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Democrat care or commie care work just as well.


4 posted on 12/03/2013 2:19:20 PM PST by bayliving
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Too late, its OBAMACARE now and forever.


5 posted on 12/03/2013 2:21:34 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

BS

It was a great idea and ought to be capitalized on.


6 posted on 12/03/2013 2:22:30 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

StenyCare then.


7 posted on 12/03/2013 2:23:09 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

It isn’t the name that makes something evil. Ted Bundy isn’t an inherently evil name. It was the actions of the man that made it synonymous with evil. They could have called it Cute Kitten Medical (CKM) and it would still be evil. The British have something called “Care Pathway” which is synonymous with euthanasia. The cute name didn’t help.


8 posted on 12/03/2013 2:23:42 PM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Tailgunner Joe

How about calling it Pelosi-Hoyer-Democrap-care?


9 posted on 12/03/2013 2:25:39 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (Have a wonderful day!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Remember when they passed it and happily/proudly said that they own it?


10 posted on 12/03/2013 2:25:45 PM PST by lurk
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To: Tailgunner Joe

How about NObamacare? Or PelousyCare?...........If you like Obamacare you can keep it..........and shove it where the sun don’t shine..................


11 posted on 12/03/2013 2:25:50 PM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: Red Badger

Call it, TraitorRobertsCare.


12 posted on 12/03/2013 2:26:10 PM PST by dfwgator (Fire Muschamp. Go Michigan State!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

It is not “affordable” but it is definitely “Obama”.


13 posted on 12/03/2013 2:26:14 PM PST by Proud2BeRight
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To: Tailgunner Joe
He can babble all he wants to but there is no amount of distance that the democrats can put between themselves and those they have or are going to harm and kill through this law.

The blood of those who will die because of this law is on their hands. Period.

15 posted on 12/03/2013 2:28:21 PM PST by bayliving
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To: Tailgunner Joe
So ... could we also call it HoyerCare? PelosiCare? ReidCare?

They all supported it, voted for it, and to this day refuse to countenance any modification of it (much less repeal). It's theirs; they own it.

Suck it, Steny. You created it, may it be your destruction!

16 posted on 12/03/2013 2:28:25 PM PST by NorthMountain
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To: Tailgunner Joe

FUBOcare.


17 posted on 12/03/2013 2:29:03 PM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic etc......


18 posted on 12/03/2013 2:29:39 PM PST by Hostage (Be Breitbart!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
This is actually a win for us. We the People tagged it Obamcare and Steny jumped on board not realizing it.

Obamacare has turned stage 10 cancerous with zero chance of a cure.

19 posted on 12/03/2013 2:32:49 PM PST by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Hoyer, you self-aggrandizing POS, I don’t care what you call it.


20 posted on 12/03/2013 2:37:02 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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