Posted on 12/07/2014 12:14:48 PM PST by Zakeet
A civil war has opened up inside the Democratic Party over Obamacare.
With half of all Senate Democrats who voted for Obamacare no longer in office, top Senate Democrats Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and outgoing Tom Harkin (D-IA) have begun trashing Democrats' decision to embrace the deeply unpopular Obamacare program. Indeed, even progressive New York Times columnist Tom Edsall now concedes that Obamacare is partly to blame for working-class Americans' all-time low 27% approval rating of Democrats, which Edsall says has now nosedived to "dangerous levels."
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"If more Democrats had been willing to defend the best thing they've done in decades, rather than run away from their own achievement and implicitly concede that the smears against health reform were right, the politics of the issue might look very different today," wrote [Paul] Krugman.
However, with embattled Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber set to testify on Tuesday about his shocking statements about "the stupidity of the American voter" and his contention that deception was essential to Obamacare's passage, it's unclear how an already unpopular law will turn public opinion around.
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Why would they civil war about it? Didn’t they vote in lock step without a single republican vote to force it down our throats in the middle of the night?
Sometimes I think that the only people in the Senate who support Obamacare are Boehner and his friends.
Yeah, this is about 4.5 years too late.
Sorry Charlie, you own it.
Boy, I can’t wait until Obama’s Obamacare individual and employer mandate start. /not much sarc
2015 rates are going to smash the economy.
For about a year I have kept my tagline.
Unless the RINOs actually want to save Obamacare and the insurance company profits it generates, that is.
Yep, and the Republicans will be blamed for it. With no rebuttal from Boehner or McConnell.
They still back it to the hilt.
Mary Loser said last night she’s proud she voted for it.
They don’t have a clue, they really don’t.
Obamacare is as they say, the gift that truly keeps on giving.
So are they going to kill it off or just posture about it for re-election?
Elections have consequences. Thanks Gruber.
Of course, they want it.
/johnny
Lemme guess, nothing but whining and pretending that they care.
Republicans funded it.
/johnny
It is all an act. They pretend to be against, to get through the next election. Just like McCain pretends to be a conservative for the 6 months before his re-election.
Every dang one of them would vote for it again, if they were guaranteed that they would get re-elected anyway.
And 98% of them will vote for a complete nationalization of it when 0bamacare fails as it was designed to do.
They’re gonna vote to keep it - they know defending it is political suicide but they would look even stupider conceding voting for it in the first place was all a mistake to begin with.
No they will double down on their support of Obamacare. They are Democrats, after all.
I believe that number, after Miss Piggy's defeat, now is 39 Democrat Senators who voted for 0bamaCare are now out of office.
This should be pointed out to the Supreme Court, as it was an unfolding political process.
Paul Krugman is an ass, and he can kiss mine. He needs to explain in detail how critics of the ACA are wrong.
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