Posted on 04/12/2016 6:55:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
Ronald Reagan famously said that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: “I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help.” As Obamacare has demonstrated all too clearly, any such declaration from a federal official is indeed cause for alarm. Nearly as scary for conservatives is the word, bipartisan, when uttered by a Republican candidate for office or one of his close advisers. This is why conservatives of all stripes should be unnerved that Sam Clovis, chief policy adviser to Donald Trump, told the New York Times last Friday that any replacement for Obamacare “must be bipartisan.”
“Bipartisan,” when used by a GOP candidate, is usually a signal to the Democrats that many of his ostensible principles are negotiable. It is particularly worrisome when deployed by an adviser to Trump, who has been on all sides of the health care debate, depending on the political exigencies of the moment. “The Donald” has, of course, often lavished praise on the government-run health care systems of countries like Canada and Scotland yet now pledges to replace Obamacare with a bilious admixture of its worst elements and even dumber proposals long advocated by the Democrats.
In other words, because it contains a wide variety of bad Democrat ideas, Trump’s plan is already “bipartisan.” Thus, when we find one of his closest advisers throwing this term around during an interview with the Times, one can’t help but wonder what else the Donald will give away in the unlikely event that he wins the presidency. Compounding the queasy feeling induced by that question is the reality that Clovis himself apparently has rather flexible principles. Before he joined the Trump campaign last summer, he was one of the real estate magnate’s most frequent and vociferous critics.
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You mean the policy positions on his website that Trump hasn’t even read?
That's a good way to put it.
Now it looks like he has to go back to being a boring politician.
Imagine trying to do both at the same event.
“How would YOU pay for the poor?”
Tell them to get a job?
Responsibility2nd, care to explain why you only presented 1/2 of Trumps’s statement?
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I only presented what was at that link. If you want MORE of the lies and duplicity of what Trump has said (and unsaid) I added a keyword. trumphealthcare.
As usual - Trump is all over the road here.
“Actually, he did not advocate single payer.”
Yes he did.
The Bush family and Clintons have been affiliated crime families since the 80s. The Bush bunch is pushing Cruz using a highly experienced financial criminal son. And Mr. Dark Cruz just flicks his tongue catching flies, and licks his lips in assent. You spout some horse crap about 3rd ways or some nonsense. Concentrate on the GOP ISIS Cruz and his nonsensical attempt to take over the party from the NWO. They'll feed him his own reptilian tail at the convention.
Donald Trump: “I’m not letting people die in the street”.
Is that a conservative liberal or moderate viewpoint? Is that American or non American values? Who pays for it?
Well, there you have it. Just like Clinton’s tax-cutting proposal in 1992. Of course by 1993 it had changed a bit.
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-12-03/news/mn-1913_1_middle-class-tax-cut
But it’s okay with you if they are regulated to stay within only certain states.
Okay! Got it!
LOL
FREE ENTERPRISE
They are already federally regulated.
Do you seriously believe any president or presidential candidate drafts his own legislation? He gives his ideas to his staff and tells them to come up with something that addresses his points. Funny how most of Trump’s ideas were the GOP line until Trump took them up too.
Obamacare in some form will be with us forever now, bank on it. That ship sailed with the GOPe rolling over in 2008 and 2012. Medicare came along in 65, many said it should go, it is still here. We have to limit the extent of these entitlements not do as the dems want to do add non citizens and illegals to the rolls.
What is Teddy Os plan by the way: get rid of Obamacare. Then what? Well, I will copy something posted on another site “If you go to Cruz’s site, it’s the same stuff he can fit into a television sound bite: “We need to enact reforms that make health care personal, portable, and affordable. Specifically, we need open insurance markets across state lines, expand Health Savings Accounts, and delink health insurance from employment.” The only difference — aside from the fact that Cruz spends more time swearing to repeal every word of Obamacare until it’s dead and buried — is that Cruz, unlike Trump, opposes letting the federal government negotiate for lower Medicare drug costs. (Trump is right, and Cruz is wrong.)”
That author said it better than I could, it is accurate, and it shows exactly how the GOPe has hoodwinked many into blasting Trump over what they wanted before Trump wanted them.
tRump Rangers couldn't care less how many liberal ideas or candidates the mercurial Mr.T has advocated for.
They are his plan. I suspect he has read them, but I cannot give you video footage.
“Where is Cruz’s version of Obamacre?”
Well, you see, Cruz is a conservative, so he doesn’t want another version of Obamacare.
What will you do for those who are truly incapable?
Sorry, he already revealed that he doesn’t read the policy papers his staffers write for him and put on the website.
Face it, Trump has been a liberal most of his life. Right up to the day he starting running for POTUS.
Or maybe Trump meant that a “bipartisan” replacement to obamacare should include some GOP points of view.
What a waste of time article.
All I heard him say was that single payer works in Canada and in Scotland.
You know that in that carefully edited excerpt that he continued speaking and said “but it won’t work here”.
I assume you did not know that.
“What will you do for those who are truly incapable?”
They already get Medicare or Medicaid.
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