Posted on 10/14/2016 7:04:49 AM PDT by Liz
They dragged hokey Billybooboo to the podium wearing his trademark hillbilly grin b/c the Clintons are scared silly about Obamacare The giant Democrat flopola is roaring back as a political liability to Democrats in a way not seen since 2014 midterms when 29 Democrats lost their seats b/c of Obamacare. The news is all bad---insurers are bailing out in droves, leaving millions of voters with dwindling options and skyrocketing premiums. There are opportunities here as so much control of Washington is up for grabs.
ACTION PROJECT: Post this on every social media outlet: There's a lot of Democrat amnesia when it comes to O/Care's Congressional voter history.
MEMORY LANE---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 answerto 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 billsets 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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Twenty-nine Democrats who voted for it (including onetime lawmaker Landrieu who pocketed a bundle to vote for it) were ousted in the 2014 midterm Democrat Demolition Derby.
ping
arg...no mention of them turning Arlen Specter back to the dark side to get it passed.
Hannity has a ‘twitter army’.
Trump does too as well as a large Facebook following.
And if we get banned, we get banned. Now is not the time to be overly-cautious.
We can also radiate outward from sympathetic social media.
For example —
Breitbart.
Quick load, massive activity.
Breitbart’s formatting probably hurts research — people funnelled into mega-threads as I understand it, so we can coordinate better here [like normal].
But then we can send our shockers out.
We should be out in force protesting the media in front of every affiliate in every city, handing out REAL news and facts! Until we counter this corrupt media as well as boycotting and exposing their advertisers. NOTHING else is going to do any good. We’ve known this for how many election cycles? Yet we keep ignoring it. The media is picking our presidents and the public is blind.
I offered a refresher of the biggest zinger on Obamacare just today — it links Obama-care with the current sleaze scandals:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3480415/posts
Viagra to convicted of rapists and perverts.
Back in 2010 the Senate voted down the Coburn Amendment along party lines.
It was the most amazing thing. All Coburn requested was that tax money not be used to give viagra to rapists and perverts while they were in prison.
Senator Harry Reid called it a ‘slippery slope’ because this viagra-for-perverts scheme was part of the Obamacare bill. Not the best word he could have chosen for such an outrage.
Why did Obama and his fellow democrats want to do that? For the perverts’ health. Cardiovascular exercise.
And who would be on the receiving end? In many cases it is the gentle guy on the receiving end who had been beaten into submission, especially when the meanest goons are the ones who can commandeer the viagra.
The pill lasts for four hours. I would be tempted to support the plan if those self-same democrats were the only ones reaching for the soap.
Curious how people would react I recently used a laptop to show random people on the street reports of the Coburn Amendment. Their jaws dropped. They kept staring at the headlines, checking to see if the web address was accurate, and shaking their heads in disbelief.
This is a definitive example of DNC morality ...
There isn’t any.
When history is rewritten this will be shown as the new, revised and improved LOUISIANA PURCHASE. Sen Mary’s legacy.
The world is filled with those who will not listen nor alter their stratagy when on a quest for their life’s desire.
Excellent breakdown of names belonging to those who will never take the time to fairly judge before they act to accomplish.
‘We should be out in force protesting the media in front of every affiliate in every city, handing out REAL news and facts!’
Sure at some point. But from the comfort of your home you can do more.
The old media won’t report protests, but take a look here:
Breitbart.
Their formatting I suspect is not very great for FR-style research. But their energy is unbelievable:
Politico: ‘Trump Goes Full Breitbart’
9285 comments - 13 hours ago
‘Moment of Recknoning’– Donald Trump: ‘Our Independence Day Is At Hand, It Arrives Finally On Nov. 8th’
8465 comments - 11 hours ago
I got stuck paying $432 a month with a $6000 deductible for the worst bronze plan directly with Kaiser because Obamacare will implode.
In 2017 the same plan raised the deductible to $6200 with premium payments of $468 a month.
I guess soon we can save by just not eating.
“Sure at some point. But from the comfort of your home you can do more.”
We will lose this race because of sitting in the ‘comfort of your home’....
The left wins because they SHOW UP!
We don’t. And we are losing. The media is the first line defense of Hillary and we ignore it. And we will lose.
Now---I deliberately chose the Obamacare issue to spotlight b/c in politics it's not always the expected issues that lose races....the ones battled over at debates.
ITEM---It was clear they knew they had a problem....when the Clintons hauled out hokey Billybooboo (he was busy salivating over the Clintons vast holdings--smirk).
ITEM---the insider buzz is Billy was scripted by Obama, himself, to disparage Obamacare.
They are all scared silly b/c Obamacare is the issue that kicks back hard and Hillary will take the full brunt.
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I also look back on the Bush/Gore race. Gore later said he lost b/c Billy got lewinskied....even though Bill's BJ did not become an A-List topic, voters were obviously silently disgusted and showed it at the polls.
Nice job.
This thread is laid out like a graduate school thesis:
Obama famously articulated the thesis “like your plan, keep your plan.”
Ergo, we look for Democrats who proved the thesis....parroting his unforgettable words.
I guess we better stay healthy.
We have healthy younger relatives across the country in the same basket as you are.
Now, they go to walk in clinics and pay cash for a visit.
They go to pharmacies for their shots and vaccines.
Why, they are billed less for the above than their normal doctors would charge.
Concierge MD have all the patients they want for fees running from a couple of hundred $/month to equal the annual deductions.
I have posted before about one of our female in laws who basically abused her husband’s Cadillac insurance plan before Obama care came in.
My wife tried to warn her that her expensive and non essential derm visits and visits for her kids requiring a bandage or less were not going be paid post Obama care, due to her new high deductibles.
Two months later after Obama care the above luxury visits were stopped. She uses my wife as a free advise RN ( which my wife did for 3+ decades). Her entire family now goes to a good walk in clinic when her free advise RN tells them to go to a doctor.
She is a great negotiator when buying products and services. She, now, uses that skill when the family needs shots/vaccines. She calls up their walk in Clinic gets their price and the 3 pharmacies in the same area of the walk in Clinic. The clinic will beat the pharmacy prices if our in law pays with cash or a debit card.
My wife’s clan in the midwest is doing the same. One of my wife’s SIL’s was an ER nurse for decades. She is the free on call RN for her families. She has taught her daughters, nieces and female cousins how to use liquid bandages and butterfly bandages to avoid visits to the ER or family docs for stiches. Her asst nurses, aka mothers, use smartphones to take pictures of cuts and abrasions for her advise. She tells her family about our west coast health care negotiator, and her clan negotiates for injections/vaccines.
One super granny in law in an area south of the above is the go to when the above RN says to get the kids/husbands to an ER. All of the younger women work at jobs that are hard to get away from, so super granny takes her grandkids to the local ER in a medium to large metro area.
Most of the times those ERs are packed with illegals getting free ER care for sore throats or ouchies needing a small bandaid. Super granny puts on a ICE hat and an ICE Jacket when she takes her grandkids to the ER. It is amazing how the patients and their 30 family members with nothing else to do, clear out of the ER waiting room and leave the premises.
Hey, if you want to camp outside a TV station, fine.
But I recommend you have a nice ad budget, a cameraman, etc. Because they will blackball you. You will need to get search engine positioning, advertising, etc. to promote your own video.
Or ... you can network with others.
(Gag)....and Biden facilitated the switch.
No wonder arlen died of a brain tumor.
It’s a crime when a citizen lies to congress. Why is it not a crime when congress lies to it’s citizens?
A growing number of people in Obamacare are finding out their health insurance plans will disappear from the program next year, forcing them to find new coverage even as options shrink and prices rise.
At least 1.4 million people in 32 states will lose the Obamacare plan they have now, according to state officials contacted by Bloomberg. That’s largely caused by Aetna Inc., UnitedHealth Group Inc. and some state or regional insurers quitting the law’s markets for individual coverage.
Excerpt---rest at Bloomberg.com
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