Posted on 02/18/2014 3:13:33 PM PST by Libloather
Democrats know their biggest problem in this year’s midterm election is Obamacare. So top party operatives have settled on a strategy to try blunting the GOP’s advantage: Tell voters Republicans would make the problem worse — raising prescription drug prices, empowering insurance companies and even endangering domestic violence victims.
The battle plan, details of which were in a memo obtained by POLITICO, recognizes the unpopularity of the Affordable Care Act. But it also banks on voter fatigue with the GOP’s relentless demands for repeal and counts on poll-backed data that show many Americans would rather fix Obamacare’s problems than scrap it altogether.
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95% dead skunk, 5% lollipop.
So if the GOP wants to get rid of it, they are lollipop haters.
Democrats will assert that O/Care under a Republican majority would:
<><> cause life-saving prescription prices to rise,
<><> empower greedy insurance companies that once covered them w/ affordable plans,
<><> engender domestic violence, chronic depression, impotency, and acne,
<><> exacerbate foreign policy w/ threats of nuclear war, Mideast violence and a two-state solution.
Sniffle.
So what happened was the compassionate White House graciously sent its chief of staff Denis McDonough to hold an unpublicized meeting with Sen. Michael Bennet (DIM-Colo), chairman of the Senate Democrats’ campaign arm.
Alas, it was not pretty---Denis was met w/ Democrats' anger and anxiety that O/Care’s costly train wreck rollout could actually cost their party its majority at midterms.
Denis and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) Chair Bennet discussed what the helpful White House could possibly do for vulnerable Senate Democrats.
Talk revolved around Democrats developing a "stronger relationship" with the White House. But this cockamamie idea was quickly discarded. After all, Democrats reasoned, who would believe a ditzy story like that...other than the brain dead MSM.
Democrats whined that Obama was not sympathetic enough to their plight. After the Republican-led government shutdown, Dems had been super-confident they would retain the Senate, maybe even regain the House......but, that optimism vanished as O/Care problems kept mounting and multiplying.
Speaker wannabe Nancy Pelosi disconsolately went back to sucking-up everything in sight.
COS Denis valiantly tried to calm ballistic Senators, saying off-the-record: “I know these guys are nervous as hell. I mean, all of their jobs are on the line, because Obamacare is the only thing making the biggest political waves. It’s a nightmare.”
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WATTA RELIEF--DEMOCRATS COME UP WITH THE ONLY WORKABLE SOLUTION Obama recently announced the White House's 2014 Senate strategy: "Keep Obama away." The extensive midterm campaign strategy is built around one unavoidable fact: Hardly any candidates in the most competitive states want President Barack Obama anywhere near them on the campaign trail.
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Poster cackles---hums theme from "Jaws."
How do you get a malignant narcissist to shut up?
The Democrats know that lying to the People is the very best way. The thing is, they are probably right.
Did you see her face on TV today? She ought to sue the doctor (If he really was licensed) for the botox breakdown. I've a box of prunes that looks better than she.
True, but the media will see to it that the Pubbies get the blame for it. The sheeple will buy it, vote for the rats, and screw us all. Unfortunately, I think Obamacare is here to stay, like social security and Medicare.
I’m more optimistic.
I hope you are right, but there are many things that should be repealed, but are not. What I think, is that if the Pubbies were able to repeal it, it is possible the rats would vote it back in later.
Repeal is not likely...I think single-payer is the only active course left at this point. No insurance company wants it....nor do the doctors....and it’s fairly-well doomed from day one on.
I think in some way...the Republicans would like to lose the 2018 legislative race, and put enough Democrats in...to invent single-payer as the next solution/repair.
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