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Who Coined 'Obamacare'?
OCT 26, 2011
| ELSPETH REEVE
Posted on 09/20/2015 6:05:30 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
House Democrats are blocking their Republican colleagues from using Obamacare in letters mailed on the taxpayer's dime to voters, but who made up the term in the first place?
Lots of people are asking this question, getting answers like "Certainly a republican, potentially Glenn Beck" and "I am about 80% sure it was Rush Limbaugh" and "Hillary Clinton's campaign coined Obamacare." Iowa Rep. Steve King claimed President Obama himself made it up. Free Republic posters want to claim credit. Lots of liberals suspect an insidious plot by Fox News. But the answer appears to be: a lobbyist.
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KEYWORDS: abortion; andrewsteinberg; andymartin; deathpanels; demagogicparty; glennbeck; history; iowa; jeanneschultescott; massachusetts; memebuilding; mittromney; nancybenac; obamacare; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; rushlimbaugh; steveking; timothynoah; zerocare
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To: MeshugeMikey
When Dead Red Ted Kennedy died they tried selling this hot pile of crap as Kennedycare. “Do it in memory of him”.
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posted on
09/20/2015 6:42:02 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
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posted on
09/20/2015 6:42:22 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
To: MeshugeMikey
Orwellcare.
Big Brother is Looking Out For YOU!
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posted on
09/20/2015 6:42:59 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
To: originalbuckeye
I thought Obama liked the term Obamacare. He said ‘I do care’. Why are the Republucans in DC so spineless??? Stalinists lie. ALWAYS
Congress exempted themselves and their staff from their horrible bill.
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posted on
09/20/2015 6:43:49 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
To: Bon mots
"Did I do THAT?"
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posted on
09/20/2015 6:45:01 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
To: MeshugeMikey
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posted on
09/20/2015 6:46:02 PM PDT
by
ThePatriotsFlag
( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else)
To: Soul of the South; MeshugeMikey; GeronL; Nachum
The only way the House Democrats can block the GOP from using Obamacare in letters is if Republicans are in agreement.
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posted on
09/20/2015 6:47:57 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
To: MeshugeMikey
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posted on
09/20/2015 7:00:34 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
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posted on
09/20/2015 7:10:05 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: MeshugeMikey
As far as I know it was me. Anyhow it was an automatic response to an autocratic law, imposed on an unwilling populous.
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posted on
09/20/2015 7:11:43 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: JimSEA
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posted on
09/20/2015 7:13:36 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: a fool in paradise
ah yes that I remember! Good Ole Crazy Uncle Teddy!
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posted on
09/20/2015 7:15:09 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: MeshugeMikey
All I know is I didn’t do it.
Aliens maybe?
I mean come on, they built the pyramids, and Stonehenge, convinced prehistoric man they were gods, they’ve been kidnapping people for at least 10,000 years, drew all those crop circles, surely they can name a silly old law...
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posted on
09/20/2015 7:28:56 PM PDT
by
Paleo Pete
(I'm with the bomb squad. If you see me running, CATCH UP!)
To: Paleo Pete
the word Came DOWUN from The Mothership....to Louis Farraklown!!
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posted on
09/20/2015 7:31:16 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: outofsalt
you beat me to it, but you’re absolutely right...Hillary Care way back in 93 - Obama Care was launched from that....probably by thousands of sources almost simultaneously.
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posted on
09/20/2015 7:59:58 PM PDT
by
C. Edmund Wright
(WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
09/20/2015 9:29:46 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
To: a fool in paradise
When Dead Red Ted Kennedy died they tried selling this hot pile of crap as Kennedycare. “Do it in memory of him”. I was disappointed when they buried Teddy in Arlington National Cemetery. His grave deserves to be watered in ways that I am not willing to perform, not even in desecrated soil, on that hallowed ground. Prior to our current White House occupant, he was among the most evil and destructive figures within our government.
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posted on
09/21/2015 6:00:25 AM PDT
by
Pollster1
("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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