Can’t help but compare the fervor leading up to 2010 compared to now. The town-hall protests, the Tea Party, the Obamacare pushback, etc. A thousand people waiting out in freezing temps at a bookstore for a Palin book-signing. In my travels, I had total strangers confront me at restaurants and gift shops strike conversations and point at newspapers, expressing abject contempt with Obama.
There was a conservative-populist grassfire set alight back then. A ton of energy to be harnessed. But the GOP-E seemed to do everything it could to pour cold water on it, from the horrid lame-duck session to FoxNews veering left to all the brilliant GOP punditry pushing “moderation” and running away from the Tea party. Now six weeks to go to the election, and I see no fervor, and very little enthusiasm. From the astonishingly abysmal economy to the crony-esque sleaze and corruption to the foreign policy fiascos, the GOP has had a TON of ammo to go up against Obama with. But no one has really lit that grassfire anew.
It is hard to feign outrage when we have a nominee (or his spokesperson) who brags on his own version of it every other week.
The BS meter is completely overloaded. The issue is not that the anger has subsided in any way. The issue is a profoundly dishonest media that continues to ignore and suppress the will of the people. You can shout at a brick wall for just so long. Sometimes it takes a while to bring the heavy equipment necessary to solve the problem. They won’t like what happens when a wrecking ball is applied to the wall...
It is the nature of an incremental enemy.
BS from Juan Williams. I am more outraged than ever and so is everyone I know.
Simple answer: The GOPe nominated the godfather of obamacare as their standard-bearer.
Sometimes I hate being right.
Sorry, I don’t agree. I’m still pissed about Obamugabe’s Death Panels.
Obamacare is a ho-hum, yawn topic for the public. Anyone thinking that the issue was going to survive to Nov. 6 election has forgotten that the attention span of the average American is equal to the average time for an NFL game, which is approx. 3 hours.
Dream on, Juan.
LLS
I really don’t see any apathy. If the GOP wins, they get rid of Obamacare.
If people liked it, the dems wouldn’t still be trying to sell it.
Beware the Juan Williams, he is wrong quite often.
There is no apathy.
Every conservative voter has made it quite clear that repeal of Obamacare is a priority issue with them.
In response, every Republican candidate has pledged they will vote to repeal Obamacare.
Consequently, there is a widespread assumption that repeal of Obamacare is a done deal -- pending a GOP win of both the White House and the Senate.
Making this happen is now the focus of our efforts. As per usual, Juan Williams is FOS.
I don’t believe the rage is gone or that it is apathy. Republicans are expected to win the House, Senate, and White House and they have promised to repeal healthcare. I and most I know are on to the task of getting Republicans and Conservatives elected and get the obamacare and all the other crap out. Juan is using this to show that we aren’t serious but the fact is that there is so much wrong with these people that it’s difficult to keep talking about one of the problems we should have the solution for. The obama keeps doing things to draw our ire and rail about that distracts us from obamacare. I can’t talk about it all at once. I would just as soon seen Juan drop FOX and stay at PBS, all they did when they fired him was to give him some credibility he didn’t deserve and an opportunity for FOX to show how “open minded” they are
The DUmmies had quite a brawl last night over 0bamacare. Apparently, it’s gone down the memory hole, now. A few of them get the fact that not only will the mandate/ penalty eat up any possible funds that many people might have had to pay for health care, it will cut sharply into their basic living expenses- to the point of homelessness & malnutrition for some. (Cat food was mentioned. Also “who will decide what I can afford?”) Some get the fact that it will be more difficult or impossible to get care as a result of 0bamacare & that insurance does not equal “care”. But they will still cling to their delusions & tyrannical hatred of anyone who is not a “democrat”.
0bamacare will be the killing blow to our economy. I hope that John Roberts, with his obtuse, bizarre ruling, rots in hell- along with every corrupt Congressperson who voted for it. And I hope Fox News- who willingly & willfully gave Juan Williams a forum to gloat & twist the knife into America’s back, goes under.
This is the point that America ceased to be a republic & became a “democracy”.
The American people are on the menu for dinner. I hope it chokes them to death.
The answer, unfortunately, is simple. So-called conservatives got into power.
But the rest of us? Personally, I can't wait for election day!
We'll see what starts after that, whether we start cleaning up or deal with what will be the start of CWII.
We now must pull back from the line or we will be forced to cross it.
Republicans know very well is that there is only one way to stop Obamacare and that is to win the Senate, House and presidency. I don’t hear Obama bragging much on the results so far either. The next court challenge will be as an illegal tax but the tax has to be levied first.
Unless . . . Unless our OH absentee voting # s are in fact indicative. If so, ain’t no “apathy” except among Obamanoids.