Funny how they vomit on each other...Democrats, that is!
Posted on 11/28/2014 6:12:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Politicians have learned that ObamaCare is extremely unpopular. It may be the most unpopular piece of legislation in recent memory. Go to a political cemetery and count the tombstones of Democrats who voted for ObamaCare and are out of office. The losses are historic!
So what do Democrats do about ObamaCare? How do they remove this burden from their backs?
Enter Senator Schumer of New York:
Speaking at the National Press Club, the influential Senate leader identified the decline of middle-class incomes as the defining challenge of the age. Democrats can only win elections, Mr. Schumer said, as “the pro-government party” – and ObamaCare is undermining that larger political project.
The Senator called the law a distraction from the “middle-class-oriented programs” his party should have pursued after 2008: “Unfortunately, Democrats blew the opportunity the American people gave them. We took their mandate and put all of our focus on the wrong problem: health-care reform.”
Mr. Schumer said he still supported the entitlement’s goals, but “it wasn’t the change we were hired to make. Americans were crying out for the end to the recession, for better wages and more jobs.”
Senator Schumer is opening a door so that Democrats can jump ship and vote, at least, for amendments or even a repeal. He is letting Democrats know that allegiance to ObamaCare is no longer a must to call yourself a Democrat.
Yes, do not be shocked if there are enough votes in the U.S. Senate and Congress to override a presidential veto and repeal ObamaCare.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Will Chuckie, the newly-minted Obamacare deserter, vote to repeal this monstrosity? Of course not. This is just a transparent attempt to distance Hillary and the Democrat Party from this disaster before her 2016 run for the presidency.
Democrats who voted for ObamaCare made every lame excuse for it now they shun it so the can be elected what fool would vote for one never trust a democrat progressive liberal.
Funny how they vomit on each other...Democrats, that is!
Until the DIMocRATs as a bloc vote to repeal their anti-American law, they are merely lieing (per usual). Liars lie. That is what they do.
“Funny how they vomit on each other...Democrats, that is! “
Thats just their lovemaking, not their disagreements.
This Democrat repudiation of Obamacare has to happen so that Hillary can run on fixing/replacing it. Seems like Chuckie Schumer I her stalking horse on this issue.
I listened carefully to Schumer’s remarks. He really wasn’t saying Obamacare was a bad law, just that it was something they should have put in place AFTER they had done all the other pro-government measures that their constituency wanted.
It’s similar to what many on the right have said on many core lefty issues - the had control of the White House, Senate, AND the House for two years ... so why didn’t they do that then? So Schumer here is basically agreeing with that and realizing that their party missed their chance by not acting on more important lefty issues early on ... and then incrementally building support for, or enacting in a piecemeal fashion, something like Obamacare.
But he still supports the law, and there is NO way that he would vote to repeal it.
I’ll believe it when I see them voting for repeal. And even then I’ll know they did it for personal political preservation and not for doing whats right by the country.
Few, if any democrats give a damn about doing right by the people, by the country.
Bingo! we are still stuck with Obie Care.
If the gutless turtle-faced Senate “leader” has any balls, this first order of business shhould be to bring a vote for total repeal of O-holeCare. Let’s just see if a single one of the Demonic Party scum votes FOR repeal.
Don’t let them run from it. Hang it around their necks.
We need them removed at every re-election. The Schmucks term is up in 2016.
“This is just a transparent attempt to distance Hillary and the Democrat Party from this disaster before her 2016 run for the presidency.”
Right; by 2016 Dems will act like they’ve never heard of Barack Hussein Obama. Should be easy; they won’t have him over once he’s out of power. He’ll be relegated literally to slumming, pontificating to the only group that ever listened to him.
Don’t be surprised if enough Dems vote to repeal to override a veto. It would remove the single biggest club the Republicans have going into 2016.
I'm sure he did this at the direction of Obama cuz Schumer probably won't run for re-election. Schumer is powerful and not for nothing....Schumer does a lot for Upstate NY....
Chucky, has no worries he will get reelected after all he is in NY..since they have kept the moron in office this long it proves these people would vote for the devil if he were running..
Schemer's newest attempt to apologize for it it won't work either. The bill was based on lies and miscalculations and was never popular but they rammed it through anyhow because they knew it was now or never.
“But he still supports the law, and there is NO way that he would vote to repeal it.”
I agree Schumer would not vote to repeal it. He is in a safe seat and is a party leader with ambition. His remarks are carefully calculated to serve other purposes.
I suspect Boehner and McConnell will put up a sham Obamacare repeal vote early in 2015. Despite the huge majority of the American people wanting repeal, the GOP leaders won’t be arm twisting across the aisle in order to create a veto proof coalition to end the law. Instead they’ll pass a GOP only vote, which the media will label completely partisan, and send it to the president who will promptly veto it. Boehner will shed a tear, McConnell will pronounce “we tried” and the GOP will get back to the same type of budget busting legislation and K street influence peddling GOP majorities led by Hastert and Frist perfected during the George W. Bush administration.
If the GOP truly wanted to kill O’care Boehner and McConnell would privately tell every Senate Democrat up for reelection in 2016, as well as any House Democrat who isn’t in an urban poor gerrymandered district, a vote for O’Care in 2015 will be pounded on the airwaves in 2016. In addition, a GOP intent on achieving repeal would be run ads prior to the 2015 repeal votes in most Democrat districts. These ads would show testimonials from average Americans struggling to pay premiums that have doubled and can’t keep their doctor.
Hardball politics can secure the repeal of O’care if the GOP will use the same Alinsky tactics the Democrats have used effectively against them. A bipartisan repeal vote and defeat of a presidential veto would completely destroy the credibility of Obama and lead to more legislative victories as well as tremendous goodwill from the American people. It would set the stage for reigning in regulation, forcing enhance border security, and a fiscally sound budget. Unfortunately Boehner and McConnell are not visionaries, strategists, patriots, or credible leaders. They are party hacks and tools of narrow corporate interests not aligned with average Americans or concerned about the future of the nation.
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