Posted on 06/02/2010 7:12:30 AM PDT by pissant
Every week brings fresh bad news about Obamacare. Many companies are considering dropping their health coverage as a result of the incentives the law creates. Small businesses are reporting that the laws tax credits are encouraging them not to make new hires. Most people with preexisting conditions, who were supposed to be the chief beneficiaries of the law, will be left out from its high-risk pools: There are 4 million of them, but enough funding for only 200,000. The Department of Health and Human Services is already behind schedule in implementing the law. And the director of the Congressional Budget Office, appointed by Democrats, denies that the law will reduce the pressure of health spending on the budget.
Republicans ought to be seizing on each revelation to press the case for repealing Obamacare. It is, after all, the worst law the Democrats have enacted on Obamas watch; and it is also the GOPs best issue in this years elections. Instead Republicans have largely allowed the Democrats to switch the subject from their unpopular health-care legislation to financial regulation, oil spills, and immigration. They have been reacting to the news instead of trying to make it.
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” We continue electing RINOs on primaries because we think they have a better chance in beating the Dems and we end up with McCain, Graham, Snowe, etc. “
There are too many right here at FR who have bought into this. We lose either way with this scenario.
Anyone that thinks the pubbies are waiting to spring some clever trap is just kidding themselves. There is no historic basis for it.
Touché
Until there are 218 Members of Congress who are neither Democrats nor Republicans, nothing will change.
although letting the Dems make an equally horrible mess out of those other 3 issues is probably not a bad political strategy. Certainly not good for the country though.
Until there are 218 Members of Congress who are neither Democrats nor Republicans, nothing will change.
First you’d have to know what is replacing them. It will certainly not serve us well to start electing people from the Best Party, Raving Monster Party, Cap’n Jack’s Pirate Party, and all those other silly protest parties that have sprung up in Europe. You’d just have 218 nutballs who couldn’t agree on anything.
Organizing For America and ACORN and SEIU and other leftist groups are kicking our asses because they are actually on OUR streets while we hold intellectual debates and preach to our own people.
Churchill’s first address to the House was clear, where he advocated ACTION instead of words:”You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea, and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs - Victory in spite of all terrors - Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival.”
WELCOME TO THE REVOLUTION!!! IT STARTS ON OUR STREETS!!!
READ IT PEOPLE!
Correct. Too many Republicans are part of the same corrupt system. They wanted to get their hands on the pot of money as bad as the Dems. We need to work in the primaries to get new people on the ballot for the November elections. That’s where the idealogical battle should be fought. Otherwise, in November we are put in the position of electing a RINO or a liberal Dem.
none of us want to deal with the implications...
The Dem-Republican Good Cop-Bad Cop con routine is the longest running, most successful play of that con anywhere in the world. The Pubbies know that when they run Congress next time around, they get to play with the goodies. That “healthcare “ bill has enough in it to horse trade on K st for another generation.
What many miss...and fail to appreciate...is that a good deal of the Federal Power Grab..merely reflects the expanding needs of the Federal bureaucracy. Every 20 years (think immigration reform 1986...and the run they had at it on 2006; instead they got healthcare this year) a host of GS-15s tries to break into the SES pay grade. This requires a substantial expansion of their agency’s scope and power to justify another cadre of administrative leadership. Immigration Reform is the fastest route to a quantum increase in population and concurrent administrative opportunity for the Feds. This is THE primary engine driving Federal Expansion...and needs We the People to implement a governor on it.
The real game is DC versus Flyover Country. It doesnt come to an end until all in Flyover Country finally get it. IMHO, they are just starting to wake up
I tend to agree with you. Public sentiment's already on their side; this is not the time to start the campaign.
Me too.
“The real game is DC versus Flyover Country. It doesnt come to an end until all in Flyover Country finally get it. IMHO, they are just starting to wake up”
I agree with your entire #50 post.
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