Ready for McDermott!
Posted on 12/10/2014 8:11:23 AM PST by tellw
A Washington state Democrat said that Republicans dubbed the Affordable Care Act “Obamacare” so that they could symbolically destroy President Obama when they destroy the bill.
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) said GOPs in Congress are just trying “more of the same game” in efforts to defund and dismantle Obamacare.
“They’ve been trying to discredit it. Tear it apart. Tear it down, repeal it. Whatever you want to do. They’re trying to do it as long as they get rid of healthcare for the American people,” McDermott told MSNBC, branding Obamacare adviser Jonathan Gruber’s comments “careless remarks people make in situations.”
“But the real facts are, it’s working, and the American people know it. And the Republicans are absolutely apoplectic trying to find some way to do the president in, but they can’t do it because it’s a good idea.”
Obamacare working, McDermott argued, “was their fear from the very beginning, that what the president was putting together would work for the American people and then the people would say, gee, the Democrats have delivered what we really need.”
“So they are fighting a losing battle, but you got to give it to them,” he added. “They are stubborn if they’re not very thoughtful.”
The congressman stressed that “no one in this country believes that people shouldn’t be secure when they get sick, that they know they’ll be taken care of, that they won’t be bankrupted by an injury.”
“That question is not the question here. The question has always been whether the president will get credit for doing it. That’s why they called it Obamacare. Because they wanted to call it Obamacare and then destroy it and they could say, well, you see, he wasn’t much of a president anyway.”
The Obama administration and DNC began using the term Obamacare before the last presidential election, saying they wanted to put a positive spin on the word.
In the next Congress, McDermott predicted that Republican lawmakers will purposely “try and drive his numbers down so that people will say he’s a failure.”
“We had the best job numbers last month that you could have. We’ve gone up 330,000 people. The actual wage growth was .4 percent, which is the biggest it’s been in months, in fact in years. And yet they continue to talk about what a failure he is,” he said. “That’s the whole point, is to make him a failure, so that in the 2016 election, they start to say, well, we’ve had a failed presidency, now we got to elect a Republican. That’s what this is all about.”
McDermott grubering again.
Yep
I call it “RobertsCare.”
President embraces ObamaCare label http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/185877-president-embraces-obamacare-label
I like this kind of Democrat because he shows that they literally can’t think straight when trying to understand others who don’t think like them.
If he actually believes this, then he thinks
1. The American people all agree that people shouldn’t be bankrupted by medical care costs.
2. Obamacare provides that protection and it’s working.
3. Republicans decided to pick that one piece of popular and effective legislation to name after Obama because they figured that it would make him look bad.
Yes, Monseigneur Hyperbole, Republicans want to "get rid of healthcare for the American people."
Ready for McDermott!
Yeah, it’s all symbolic. If They could just convince people how awesome the substance of OCare really is. Hey where’s that Gruber fella?
funny... I remember Obama himself embracing the name in a debate!
Becase its Christmas coming up and I am a nice guy I have a free present for Mr McDermott.
No one has to destroy Barack Obama. He has done that job all by himself with being the most inept, incompetent, ignorant and unconstitutional President in history..
Well then if it’s working, what’s his beef?
This argument only applies if Obamacare turns out to have been a disaster. If Obamacare had turned out to be a spectacular success, people would have been falling over themselves to attach their names to it. So, McDermott, your argument only applies if it is a failure. Which seems to be the case. Advantage Republicans.
I don’t want obama symbolically destroyed, I vote for systematic destruction.
McDermott, can you provide ONE example of someone
previously insured
that has better coverage today due to Obamacare?
“Better”: lower premiums, lower deductibles, more doctor choice, more facility choice.
“They’ve been trying to discredit it. Tear it apart. Tear it down, repeal it. Whatever you want to do. They’re trying to do it as long as they get rid of healthcare for the American people,” McDermott told MSNBC
Sure Jim, the America people overwhelmingly voted Republicans into power the past election so that Republicans can get rid of healthcare for the people. Do you even realize how stupid you sound?
Right, McDermott! Tell us again how many House & Senate seats the Democrats gained in the mid-terms last month by reminding the American people how much they truly love Obamacare since it's working so well!
Oh, wait ...
When they shoved this bill through and shoved it down their throats, democraps gleefully called this Obamacare. Now that it turns out that the GOP was right and its a total POS, they want to make excuses.
- First Lady told the audience at the Women’s Leadership Forum Conference in Washington, D.C.
Not only were we right at the time we were telling them how bad it was,
they called us names for opposing it - vile epithets that would have merited a punch in the nose if done in person.
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