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Harry Reid Latest Senate Democrat to Regret Obamacare
Newsmax ^ | Wednesday, 10 Dec 2014 11:15 AM | Jennifer G. Hickey

Posted on 12/10/2014 12:32:56 PM PST by Olog-hai

Outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid joined a growing list of Democrats voicing regrets about various aspects of Obamacare when he said his party underestimated the damage done by the disastrous rollout of the healthcare exchanges. […]

“We never recovered from the Obamacare rollout. I’m not going to beat up on Obama. The rollout didn’t go well. We never recovered from that,” conceded Reid, who insisted that he has no regrets about moving the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ahead of other issues. …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; harryreid; obamacare; zerocare

1 posted on 12/10/2014 12:32:56 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Boo hoo.

We screwed the country, and now they’re too stupid to thank us and move on.


2 posted on 12/10/2014 12:43:42 PM PST by Steely Tom (Thank you for self-censoring.)
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To: Olog-hai

The good news is it shoved aside “Cap N Tax” and “card check”


3 posted on 12/10/2014 12:45:44 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, Convict, Deport)
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To: Olog-hai

He’s still not in prison or exiled. The criminal reed has done well.


4 posted on 12/10/2014 12:57:51 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Olog-hai

He’s still not in prison or exiled. The criminal reid has done well.


5 posted on 12/10/2014 12:58:00 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: hal ogen

Harry is the prototypical Dem politician.
It appears he’s never held a private sector job in his adult life.


6 posted on 12/10/2014 1:00:32 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, Convict, Deport)
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To: Olog-hai

Yeah it was the roll out you effing idiots.


7 posted on 12/10/2014 1:11:33 PM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Olog-hai

He’s sorry because ,
1) He’s no longer majority leader
2) Both state Houses and the Secretary of State went Republican making it very difficult for him to steal another election, therefore...
3) He’s going to lose his reelection in two years because of Obamacare.


8 posted on 12/10/2014 1:58:01 PM PST by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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To: Olog-hai

Harry’s been flinging feces and now doesn’t like the odor on him.

Harry: take a hike.


9 posted on 12/10/2014 2:43:36 PM PST by polymuser ( Enough is enough)
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To: Nateman

eh, he’ll either croak over from old age or retire before he has a chance to get his ass handed to him in other election...


10 posted on 12/10/2014 2:46:58 PM PST by dps.inspect (rage against the Obama machine...)
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To: Olog-hai

Now that’s funny

Vindictive retribution light

Dingy Harry is not Dirty Harry because he’d merely Dingy..... AKA half assed


11 posted on 12/10/2014 2:49:26 PM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: Olog-hai

LOL Sure, Harry. You rats OWN Obamacare. I hope you choke on it.


12 posted on 12/10/2014 4:01:14 PM PST by stilloftyhenight (...shut it down)
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To: Olog-hai

Mr. Reid, your sandbagging all the issues of importance to the American people had nothing to do with the Democrat losses this past election cycle!!??


13 posted on 12/10/2014 5:32:26 PM PST by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: Olog-hai

“his party underestimated the damage done”

That’s because they believed their own lies - they’ve been gruberized.


14 posted on 12/10/2014 6:28:14 PM PST by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - a Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: Olog-hai
As 2014 midterms demonstrated, Americans are NEVER going to forget the sight of lock-stepping Dumbocrats---w/ their liberal lips firmly glued to Obama's ***.

As far back as 2008, at the presidential debate in Nashville, Democrat candidate Obama advanced his signature plan that was ultimately enacted (by an historic straight Democrat party-line vote) into the "Affordable Care Act:"

QUOTING OBAMA: "No. 1, let me just repeat, if you’ve got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it. All I’m going to do is help you to lower the premiums on it. You’ll still have choice of doctor.”

Repeated over and over by every loyal Democrat---- conning Americans into believing they'd also be saving $2500.00 on healthcare costs.

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LOCK-STEPPING DEMOCRAT PARTY LOYALTY NOT SEEN SINCE 1930-40's ERA EUROPE.

SEN. HARRY REID (D-Nev.): “In fact, one of our core principles is that if you like the health care you have, you can keep it.” (Sen. Reid, Congressional Record, S.8642, 8/3/09)

SEN. RICHARD DURBIN: “We believe — and we stand by this — if you like your current health insurance plan, you will be able to keep it, plain and simple, straightforward.” (Sen. Durbin, Congressional Record, S.6401, 6/10/09)

SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY): “If you like your insurance, you keep it.” (U.S. Senate, Finance Committee, Bill Mark-Up, 9/29/09)

SEN. PATTY MURRAY (D-Wash.): “Again, if you like what you have, you will be able to keep it. Let me say this again: If you like what you have, when our legislation is passed and signed by the President, you will be able to keep it.” (Sen. Murray, Congressional Record, S.6400, 6/10/09)

SEN. MAX BAUCUS (D-Mont.): “That is why one of the central promises of health care reform has been and is: If you like what you have, you can keep it. That is critically important. If a person has a plan, and he or she likes it, he or she can keep it.” (Sen. Baucus, Congressional Record, S.7676, 9/29/10)

SEN. TOM HARKIN (D-Iowa): “One of the things we put in the health care bill when we designed it was the protection for consumers to keep the plan they have if they like it; thus, the term ‘grandfathered plans.’ If you have a plan you like — existing policies — you can keep them. … we said, if you like a plan, you get to keep it, and you can grandfather it in.” (Sen. Harkin, Congressional Record, S.7675-6, 9/29/10)

THEN-REP. TAMMY BALDWIN (D-Wis.): “Under the bill, if you like the insurance you have now, you may keep it and it will improve.” (Rep. Baldwin, Press Release, 3/18/10)

SEN. MARK BEGICH (D-Alaska): “If you got a doctor now, you got a medical professional you want, you get to keep that. If you have an insurance program or a health care policy you want of ideas, make sure you keep it. That you can keep who you want.” (Sen. Begich, Townhall Event, 7/27/09)

SEN. MICHAEL BENNET (D-Colo.): “We should begin with a basic principle: if you have coverage and you like it, you can keep it. If you have your doctor, and you like him or her, you should be able to keep them as well. We will not take that choice away from you.” (Sen. Bennet, Press Release, 6/11/09)

SEN. BARBARA BOXER (D-Calif.): “So we Democrats want people to be able to keep the health care they have. And the answer to that is choice of plans. And in the exchange, we’re going to have lots of different plans, and people will be able to keep the health care coverage they need and they want.” (Sen. Boxer, Press Release, 2/8/11)

SEN. SHERROD BROWN (D-Ohio): “Our Democrat bill says if you have health insurance and you like it, you can keep it…”(Sen. Brown, Congressional Record, S.12612, 12/7/09)

SEN. BEN CARDIN (D-Md.): “For the people of Maryland, this bill will provide a rational way in which they can maintain their existing coverage…” (Sen. Cardin, Congressional Record, S.13798, 12/23/09)

SEN. BOB CASEY (D-Pa.): “I also believe this Democrat legislation and the bill we are going to send to President Obama this fall will also have secure choices. If you like what you have, you like the plan you have, you can keep it. It is not going to change.” (Sen. Casey, Congressional Record, S.8070, 7/24/09)

SEN. KAY HAGAN (D-N.C.): ‘People who have insurance they’re happy with can keep it’ “We need to support the private insurance industry so that people who have insurance they’re happy with can keep it while also providing a backstop option for people without access to affordable coverage.” (“Republicans Vent As Other Compromise Plans Get Aired,” National Journal’s Congress Daily, 6/18/09)

SEN. MARY LANDRIEU (D-La.): “If you like the insurance that you have, you’ll be able to keep it.” (MSNBC’s Hardball, 12/16/09)

SEN. PAT LEAHY (D-Vt.): “[I]f you like the insurance you now have, keep the insurance you have.” (CNN’s “Newsroom,” 10/22/09)

SEN. BOB MENENDEZ (D-N.J.): “If you like what you have, you get to keep it” “Menendez is a member of the Senate Finance Committee, which is expected to release a bill later this week. He stressed that consumers who are satisfied with their plans won’t have to change. ‘If you like what you have, you get to keep it,’ he said.” (“Health Care Plan Would Help N.J., Menendez Says,” The Record, 6/19/09)

SEN. JEFF MERKLEY (D-Oreg.): “[E]nsuring that those who like their insurance get to keep it” “The HELP Committee bill sets forward a historic Democrat plan that will, for the first time in American history, give every American access to affordable health coverage, reduce costs, and increase choice, while ensuring that those who like their insurance get to keep it.” (Sen. Merkley, Press Release, 7/15/09)

SEN. BARBARA MIKULSKI (D-Md.): “It means that if you like the insurance you have now, you can keep it.” (Sen. Mikulski, Press Release, 12/24/09)

SEN. JAY ROCKEFELLER (D-W.Va.): “I want people to know, the President’s promise that if you like the coverage you have today you can keep it is a pledge we intend to keep.” (U.S. Senate, Finance Committee, Hearing, 9/23/09)

SEN. JACK REED (D-R.I.): “If you like the insurance you have, you can choose to keep it.” (Sen. Reed, Town Hall Event, 6/25/09)

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-Vt.): “‘If you have coverage you like, you can keep it,’ says Sen. Sanders.” (“Sick And Wrong,” Rolling Stone, 4/5/10)

SEN. JEANNE SHAHEEN (D-N.H.): ‘if you have health coverage that you like, you get to keep it’ “My understanding … is that … if you have health coverage that you like you can keep it. As I said, you may have missed my remarks at the beginning of the call, but one of the things I that I said as a requirement that I have for supporting a Democrat bill is that if you have health coverage that you like you should be able to keep that. …under every scenario that I’ve seen, if you have health coverage that you like, you get to keep it.” (Sen. Shaheen, “Health Care Questions From Across New Hampshire,” Accessed 11/13/13)

SEN. DEBBIE STABENOW (D-Mich.): “As someone who has a large number of large employers in my state, one of the things I appreciate about the Democrat chairman’s remark is — is the grandfathering provisions, the fact that the people in my state, 60 percent of whom have insurance, are going to be able to keep it. And Mr. Chairman, I appreciate that. That’s a strong commitment. It’s clear in the bill … I appreciate the strong commitment on your part and the president to make sure that if you have your insurance you can keep it. That’s the bottom line for me.” (U.S. Senate, Finance Committee, Bill Mark-Up, 9/24/09)

SEN. JON TESTER (D-Mont.): “‘If you like your coverage, you’ll be able to keep it,’ Tester said, adding that if Medicare changes, it will only become stronger”. (“Tester In Baker To Discuss Health Care,” The Fallon County Times, 11/20/09)

SEN. TOM UDALL (D-N.Mex.): “Some worried reform would alter their current coverage. It won’t. If you like your current plan, you can keep it.” (“What I Learned: About Health Care Reform This Summer, By Your Lawmakers In Congress,” Albuquerque Journal, 9/8/09)

SEN. SHELDON WHITEHOUSE (D-R.I.): “..it honors President Obama’s programs and the promise of all of the Presidential candidates that if you like the plan you have, you get to keep it. You are not forced out of anything.” (Sen. Whitehouse, Congressional Record, S.8668, 8/3/09)

Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) the 60th vote on Obamacare: "people who are happy with their current plan, wouldn't need to change it."
FRANKEN YOUTUBE SOUND BITE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCZmAYYNz8Ihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCZmAYYNz8I

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CUE THE SCHADENFREUD METER thirty Democrats who voted for Obamacare were ousted in the midterm Democrat Demolition Derby.

15 posted on 12/11/2014 7:25:01 AM PST by Liz (Pres Reagan on govt shutdown: "Let's close it down and see if anyone notices.")
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To: Olog-hai

If he actually regreted it, he’d be pushing for a repeal.


16 posted on 12/11/2014 10:54:45 AM PST by Tzimisce
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To: Olog-hai

This Moron did everything to pass the thing in the first place and on Christmas Eve.


17 posted on 12/11/2014 11:02:19 AM PST by Red Steel
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To: Clintonfatigued; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican

As you said CF, they should promise Sandoval whatever he wants.

If he wants a committee chairmanship, ferrari limo, slave girls, anything.


18 posted on 12/13/2014 6:46:08 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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