Sorry, you can’t convince the idiots and true believers and don’t need to. The majority of the people know what’s wrong with the economy-killing, jobs-killing, liberty-killing Marxist program and don’t want it. You need to work on convincing the Republican congress to not cave-in, no matter what. Obamacare cannot be funded if the House refuses to fund it. If they hold the line and defund it, they win big in 2014. If they cave and fund it, they own it. And they lose big in 2014.
Thanks, Jim, for specifically addressing my question. For a while there, I thought you were just a bot programmed to reply with platitudes (”Hell, no! We’ll never surrender!”, “Fight, fight, fight!”...)
Good to know you’re really there.
I know the polls have consistently shown 60%+ opposition to ObamaCare, and some polls showing a slim majority in favor of a government shutdown over ObamaCare, but my faith in the American electorate was fundamentally shaken in 2008 with Obama’s election, and totally shattered with his reelection in 2012. Plus I live in deep-blue NOVA, so I sometimes forget there are more than just a handful of true patriots left out there than who I see on FR.
One thing for sure, this ObamaCare/Continuing-Resolution showdown is going to be a significant turning point, one way or the other, for what’s left of our beloved Republic. May God grant us mercy.
Exactly Jim!
The ‘14 cycle has already begun and candidates are campaigning on this issue. At a minimum hundreds of thousands of jobs have already been lost, an equal number of employees have been demoted to part time, insurance coverage has been revoked for spouses, employee/retiree coverage pushed to the exchanges, or eliminated all together, physician choice is narrowing, medical professionals are either being dismissed or voluntarily exiting the field...It isn’t 2010 theory. It is and has been happening every day.
..and this is just the ice above the water. The absolute rewriting of the Constitution with this law is more perilous than all of the aforementioned points.
If voter x hasn’t comprehended any of this yet...put a toe tag on them and move on. We have got a war to win!