Posted on 02/09/2011 3:46:01 PM PST by MissesBush
Pretty much as expected by conservatives, Obamacare has remained unpopular with the public. It's under attack in the courts. And now, vulnerable Senate Democrats are running for the hills. ABC News reports:
"We're looking at everything humanly possible. I've always had a concern and a problem with the mandate, that we were forcing it, basically saying by the law of the land you have to buy the product," Sen. Joe Manchin, D-WV, told ABC News today. "But on the other hand, I know that's been the linchpin. I'm looking for flexibility any way I can."
Manchin is one of the moderate Democrats trying to figure out how to repeal the individual mandate. While talks are still in the early stages, Manchin hopes the push will take shape sooner rather than later.
Joining him in these efforts could be a handful of other Democrats who are also up for reelection in 2012: Nebraska's Ben Nelson, Missouri's Claire McCaskill, and Montana's Jon Tester.
You can understand why liberals might be starting to panic. So earnest Obamacare supporters are rushing in. Ezra Klein offers his contribution:
Replacing the individual mandate wouldn't be particularly hard. All we need is another policy that does the same thing -- specifically, discourages free-riders who don't want to buy insurance until after they get sick and thus leave the rest of us paying for them.
Not only is the repeal of the individual mandate no big deal, it's actually better for the Dems! Ezra announces, "The danger, as I say at the end, is not that the law does get changed, but that it doesn't. That the GOP won't let it thrive and the Democrats won't let it die and so it just limps along." (I guess the "historic legislation" was badly crafted, after all.)
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It never had any support. Except in the back rooms of Washington.
Yet, you didn't vote to repeal it! Putz!
There are no moderates in the Demorat Party. There are only a few liberals and the far left.
BS. Liberals are proud of their parasitic anti-American agenda.
A moderate is another name for a Liberal who lives south of Washington DC.
Manchin is the biggest chicken in D.C. After that grandiose TV campaign promise that he wouldn’t support ObamaCare, he fell right in line with Dingy Harry and voted not to allow repeal to be voted on. WV should be ashamed to have such a coward representing them,
What is this on-going blabber about Obamacare for? I agree with Rush, Judge Vinson has ruled that this is unconstitutional, end of story, null and void until addressed by SCOTUS. That’s the whole point.
In our former Republic, the administration would have to play its cards out and expose themselves but with this lawlessness, it doesn’t matter.
Exactly. There are two groups: those who are up for election soon the those who are up for election later.
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Obamacare support melting away
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I love a happy story!
“I’ve always had a concern and a problem with the mandate, that we were forcing it, basically saying by the law of the land you have to buy the product,” Sen. Joe Manchin, D-WV.”
Yes, Manchin is a shameless liar.
The bullsh*t is hot and heavy from moderate democrats and unicorns.
The unicorns are more believable.
Hey West Virginia, you got duped by a lying bag of crap.
You will suffer and it will be all your own fault.
Enjoy your lying shoot em up democrat.
Governors become different creatures when participating in national politics.
It’s already dead.
No Republican is going to vote to fund a law that has been completely invalidated by a federal judge.
No funding for the period until 2014, when most provisions go into effect, means it will go the same way as the Mexican border fence. It will die on the vine.
Then why did Manchin vote against the repeal if he has so many concerns about it.
West Virginia voters need to get rid of Manchin in 2012
I imagine this is true for most who still have jobs.
I’m paid twice per months and my health insurance contribution in January went from $145.50 per pay period to $180.00 per pay period. Obamacare is awesome!
Dang! They just got him.
Obamacare has remained unpopular with the public. It's under attack in the courts. And now, vulnerable Senate Democrats are running for the hills.Yeah, well, we've fallen in the past for this meme-building exercise by the partisan media shills. Thanks MissesBush.
GET RID OF THIS ARCANE.........DRACONIA LAW!
JUST SAY NO TO DEATH CARE.......NO TO RATIONING OF CARE..................... NO TO POLITICAL WAIVERS AND FAVORS TO THE DYING WHO ARE POLITICALLY CONNECTED( Dear Senator ____________my wife is dying and needs care to extend her life two years, we need you to call the National Health Inquisition Board in Washington,
please, please help us, our chldren and grandchuildren beg you, oh great god and senator, pray for us in our time of need....blah, blah blah... Do not let the IRS take our home away to pay for our non covered care....blahdee blah blah blah...all to come if this horrible law is allowed to stand!!!!)
We stand on our own as a people, and we protect and care for our own....GET OUT OF OUR LIVES YOU FASCIST PRICKS!!!!!!!!!
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