Just another rant I needed to get off my chest.
Thank you all for your patience.
The (Peoples') House still looks to zero out Zer0's best planz.
The “Republican” nominee was the guy who created the program that provided the basic architecture for Obamacare. There is a reason it was referred to as “Obamneycare.”
Given that, how could it have been a referendum on Obamacare? Does anyone seriously think President Romney would be doing anything but tweaking it while it implemented? And Republicans would be even more eager to go along. “We have to support our President,” after all.
I bang my head on walls when democrats make that point, and repubs do not respond as you point out here.
My congressman was elected with a referendum to help beat obamacare or he will be removed.
A choice between Romney and Obama cannot be any sort of referendum on state-controlled health care in general, nor on mandated health insurance in particular.
Obamacare was made law back in the Zer0’s first term. It merely went into effect this month. So in a way, the “referendum” claim is correct, since each election since it became law was a chance to reverse it by putting politicians who were against it into office.
However, you are correct in the reasoning behind why they set it up to only come into effect after Zer0’s (potential at the time) second term.
If they want to talk about referendums, they should go back to the 2010 elections when it was fresh in people’s mind and resulting in the tea party avalanche that took control of the House.
A president, once elected, is still supposed to serve and look out for the best interests of ALL Americans, not just the ones that voted for him. Even Bill Clinton understood this. Barack Obama, the “Great Uniter,” is the most divisive president imaginable.
When I hear them say that, my reply is: “You mean the election where the IRS was enlisted to prohibit the Tea Party groups from getting tax exempt statuses in order to give O the win? That one!?!?” I just don’t understand how that one thing alone isn’t enough, not to mention Benghazi, to get congress off their asses for impeachment proceedings.
Any so called ‘referendum’ or other symbolic event was put on hold by the 2010 elections and the challenges laid before the Supreme Court in 2011.
Obamacare was passed using the ‘Chicago Way’ in March 2010 and the American people used in orderly fashion the available means to push back which were the voting booth and the courts. The 2010 election gave the House back to republicans to start in 2011 and the courts gave us the Roberts decision in the latter of 2012.
And the GOP establishment (GOPe) gave us in mid 2012 a RINO named Romney who with a 10 point lead could not have defeated even Carter.
And Texas gave us the Canadian anarchist and Cuban pirate Cruz who shakes the ground so powerfully that the bobblehead democrats and their shoulder parrots in the media bounce and squawk with fear and trepidation.
Who was it that said “I have not yet begun to fight!”? John Paul Jones. Well John Paul Cruz and John Paul Lee have spread the work to republicans to find their spines and prepare to fight.
And here we are in 2013.
The last election couldn’t possibly have been a referendum on socialized medicine, not with the creator of RomneyCare running against the inspiration for ObamaCare. In fact, the only reason an anti-American communist was able to come within the margin of fraud a second time was that so many conservatives despise both of the candidates.
The Referendum on Obamacare is underway. It began last Tuesday, October 1, 2013.
If you are an Obamacare fan you should be worried. You need some fair chunk of 7 million “votes” or so in the next 6 months to claim victory. After 4 days you have so few that your team won’t even tell us how many.
If you are not an Obamacare fan you should be heartened. It looks like a disaster right out of the gate with little chance of coming anywhere close to reaching the required goal.
Watch the Obamacare Enrollment numbers. Those are the votes. They will tell the tale over the coming weeks.
It would have been if we hadn’t chosen the father of it Mitt Romney as our nominee.