Posted on 07/30/2013 12:47:48 AM PDT by expat1000
Some predict chaos beginning Oct. 1, when the law requires Obamacare exchanges, the online marketplaces in which people will be able to shop for insurance, to be up and running. And maybe that will happen; the day is a little more than two months off, and the administration seems far behind schedule in the work that needs to be done. On the other hand, a lot of thoughtful conservatives are looking beyond Oct. 1 to January 1st.
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Despite all the rhetoric and defeatism around tying defunding Obamacare to a CR, this is the hill to die on. If the government shuts down, so be it. Once Obamacare fully kicks in, the US will be just another high tax, high unemployment, high debt socialist state - that is until Obama can bring on a full collapse he so clearly desires.
Well said!
The Republican leadership is completely oblivious to the fact that they are bleeding support from their base every day. Their inaction and cowardice is what will cost them the next election and it is the Republicans and Conservatives who are going to do them in by staying home, not the Rats.
“Once Obamacare fully kicks in, the US will be just another high tax, high unemployment, high debt socialist state”.....
Guess you have been away for a while, the U.S. already IS “just another high tax, high unemployment, high debt socialist state”.
If Republicans fail to stop odumbocare, it will finally be their “end”. Who in their right mind would even consider voting them into office, certainly not me.
Shutting down the gubmint might be the best thing we could do.
I’m not sure that defunding, at least beyond a token vote to do so (iow don’t close the govt) is the right approach.
Pelosi was wrong when she said that the bill needed to be passed in order for people to find out what’s in it. In reality it needs to actually go into effect in order for people to find out what’s in it.
And what’s in it is a whole lot of pain for a while lot of people who were duped into believing otherwise.
Sometimes tough-love is called for. In order for the voting public to wake up and realize the consequences of voting Democrats into power, they need to feel, actually FEEL, the pain this will cause. And to see how quickly Obamas signature accomplishment lurches towards a very high profile collapse.
At that point, with the Dems demanding -even begging- for quick modifications to lessen the pain the GOP will have all the leverage in the world to not only demand a full repeal, but to reap the electoral benefits as well.
The GOPe will never exploit the Democrat weakness on this, when all of this blows up the left will demanding “single payer” as the only solution, the only possible fix and the GOPe will not have a unified answer on what to “replace” the chaos ObamaCare created with.
It is so predictable.
Until the black man child is out of office we don’t have much of a chance. Let’s fund more of his vacations. He is disgusting.
ObamaCARE IS Romney’s greatest imposition since
gay marriage he imposed upon Massachusetts and Nation.
The GOP (Romney and Rove and their evil GOPe) will
NEVER eliminate ObamaCARE/RomneyCARE???
Why? IT IS THEIRS, and they are not even under its yoke.
“ObamaCARE IS Romney’s greatest imposition since
gay marriage he imposed upon Massachusetts and Nation.”
It is interesting that since the middle of the 20th Century much of the execution of the progressive agenda has been driven by Republicans. Nixon took the US currency off the gold standard. He added the EPA and OSHA to the federal bureaucracy. He opened up China. His Supreme Court appointment, Harry Blackman, was the architect of the Roe v. Wade opinion.
Bush I raised taxes, despite promising not to, bailed out the S&L’s, used US troops as mercenaries for the Saudi’s in Desert Storm. He pushed the free trade policies that resulted in the transfer of much of US manufacturing to China.
Unable to find his veto pen, Bush II doubled the national debt. Instead of defunding the Department of Education he greatly increased spending with “No Child Left Behind”. He signed the Patriot Act, giving the government unprecedented unconstitutional powers to invade the privacy of citizens. He appointed Bernanke Chairman of the Federal Reserve. In the 2008 financial crisis he protected the Wall Street banks at the expense of the average taxpayer. He engaged in two wars with no plan to win. He signed a 25 year extension of the Voting Rights Act.
I really think it’s time to go 3rd party. I think it is beyond “Republicans are oblivious” They are in on this hook line and sinker. McCain has been promised he will remain “in the preferred circle” and it’s obvious the press has been given this promise as well. It is not Republican and Democrat it is the “Aristocracy vs US”. It’s really time to march
You’ve hit the nail on the head. Not only, even when in control, does the GOP ‘opposition party’ not only NOT roll back a single Law, reg, department, etc., they can’t even stem the tide.
You’re right. It’s the elites vs. the rest of the country. We are in the majority, but they have the power right now.
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