Posted on 12/19/2013 9:03:45 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
WASHINGTON — The Affordable Care Act is picking up steam, and repealing it now would cause a huge backlash from voters, Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, said today.
“We’re hoping that Republicans will come to their senses and realize how valuable the Affordable Care act is to the American people,” he told reporters on a White House conference call that also included Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich, Rep. Matthew Cartwright, D-Pa. and a senior Obama adviser, David Simas.
“This is no longer an abstraction,” Simas said. “At the end of the day, this is a pocketbook issue for millions of Americans across the country.” ....
“Senator Cruz, who caused the government shutdown, still talks nearly every day via social media about repealing the Affordable Care Act,” he said. So they could threaten the debt ceiling again. We don’t put that past them. ”
Republicans pushing for repeal say the law is too costly and will cause millions to lose their health care, their jobs, or both.
“The only reason the White House held this call today is because enrollment numbers for Obamacare have been disastrously low,” said Cruz spokesman Sean Rushton. “Texans, like millions of Americans all over the country, know this terrible law is costing them jobs, the plans they liked, and forcing them to pay more for their insurance through higher premiums and deductibles.”
Castro said repealing the law is unpopular with voters, and that further attempts to topple it would have consequences for Republicans.
“The American people, and Texans, will not stand for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. If they try to repeal it, there will be a real backlash among Texans,” he said.
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voter opinion be damned. These statists know better.
These people must only talk to each other in the insulated little world. They are delusional.
Once again a liberal demonrat giving advice to Republicans so that they won’t suffer at the polls. Of course the advice they give to Republicans is so that the demonrats don’t suffer at the polls.
I want this rat deported to Cuba.
Castro supports Obamacare? thats newsworthy
The Rollout....only the beginning
Why should I care what Fidel’s effeminate love child thinks about anything?
Once they lose control of DOJ all bets are off.
Uh, that’s how marxists are. Thanks missus la raza for birfing at least two marxist asshat kids.
Typical left-wing loon, talking out the side of his neck.
Fully 70% of the American people were against the passage of Obamacare, and even fewer like it now. Especially in Texas.
I don’t understand why Castro is whining about this. You’d think the boy would like to see a “backlash”. Texans WILL stand for a repeal of the Barry’s “signature” scam and Castro knows it.
Their defensive position is of RATS who have been smashed and have nothing left to lose.
They know they’re toast, buttered and burnt toast, but they will go down with their Titanic ‘law of the land’.
Bless their little hearts.
Really?
Think again.
Is this communist up for re-election?
Seems as if all Castros are alike
I really hate these commie reprobates and their lies.
Hey Texas. You have a rat infestation. You better get it under control before your state turns blue.
You must be fancied up. Anyhow- take good difference.
If this Castro feller is agin Cruz - then I’m fer him!
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