Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Howard Dean: Obamacare Created by ‘Elitists Who Don’t Fundamentally Understand the American People’
Washington Free Beacon ^ | November 12, 2014 7:13 am | Washington Free Beacon Staff

Posted on 11/12/2014 11:48:36 AM PST by tje

Former DNC Chairman Howard Dean gave an excoriating critique of his own party’s key piece of legislation saying the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, was “put together by a bunch of elitists” who “don’t fundamentally understand the American people.”

Dean said was shocked that Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber said “the stupidity of the American voter” was a “political advantage” in passing Obamacare in an interview with MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski on Wednesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: howarddean; obamacare
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-63 next last
If you've lost Howard Dean...
1 posted on 11/12/2014 11:48:36 AM PST by tje
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: tje

OMG! Screamin Dean agrees with me. That’s scary stuff.


2 posted on 11/12/2014 11:50:05 AM PST by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tje

Seems to me that those left wing elitists understand lefties perfectly.


3 posted on 11/12/2014 11:51:07 AM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tje

Wow, Im shocked. I thought the dem party was the party of the little guy. LOL...


4 posted on 11/12/2014 11:51:37 AM PST by 556x45
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tje

YEEEEAAAAAH!


5 posted on 11/12/2014 11:51:57 AM PST by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tje

Dean wants Single-Payer.


6 posted on 11/12/2014 11:52:15 AM PST by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tje

Well, a broken clock is right twice a day . . .


7 posted on 11/12/2014 11:52:45 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tje

In the Spring of 2011 I heard, with my own ears, Howard Dean claim that Obamacare would collapse the US healthcare system and bring about single-payer. He didn’t seem to have too much of a problem with that.

His comments were made at the Baltimore MD stop of the debate series he did with Karl Rove. Wish I could find a transcript of it to confirm what I heard.


8 posted on 11/12/2014 11:55:25 AM PST by tanknetter
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: RedMDer

I know. This is truly odd.


9 posted on 11/12/2014 11:55:34 AM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: tje

Et tu, Howie?


10 posted on 11/12/2014 11:56:35 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tje

Even given his critique, he still supports it....................


11 posted on 11/12/2014 11:58:09 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tje

Yep, if they had just created a “Healthcare Stamps” program that didn’t turn the whole healthcare system upside down and mandate and fine everyone else, there would be almost no way it would be repealed, even by the GOPe.

As it is, leftists don’t even really like it.


12 posted on 11/12/2014 11:59:17 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tje
 photo GRUBERpopupcopy_zpsd0a3ec62.jpg

13 posted on 11/12/2014 12:00:33 PM PST by Dick Bachert (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. ~ Thomas Jefferson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tje

A bunch of trial lawyers in Congress will never pass Single-payer because the central pole in that tent is Tort Reform and Malpractice Caps.


14 posted on 11/12/2014 12:01:32 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tje

This Gruber is becoming the most hated person in America by both left and right—the right because he passed ObamaCare by his deception, The left because he basically called them all stupid.


15 posted on 11/12/2014 12:02:10 PM PST by MNDude
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tje

Yep, that’s some litmus test right there!


16 posted on 11/12/2014 12:02:31 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The mid-term elections were perfect for him. Now Obama can really lead from behind.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tje
Howard Dean said this???? The world has turned upside-down!!!!
17 posted on 11/12/2014 12:03:49 PM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tje

In the land of zerOphones, Howard is saying people want free zerOcare.


18 posted on 11/12/2014 12:05:34 PM PST by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tje

Perhaps liberals, who like to think of themselves as smart, are beginning to distance themselves from the neo stupid.

Election Day said: “We’re not buying it.”

Y’all are on video tape espousing the virtues of Ocare and demonizing those of us who criticized it.


19 posted on 11/12/2014 12:06:01 PM PST by mom.mom
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tje

We need to let the Obamacare anchor drag Obama and the Democrats to the bottom of the ocean.


20 posted on 11/12/2014 12:06:36 PM PST by kaehurowing
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-63 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson