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It's Time for Conservatives And the Tea Party to Start Playing Chess
Townhall.com ^ | October 13, 2013 | Derek Hunter

Posted on 10/13/2013 5:25:24 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

The game is a rigged roulette wheel. The Democrats and Republicans run the game. They may argue with each other, steal from one another, and maybe even shoot each other sometimes over the profits but they’ll work together and fight to the death to protect the crooked game from outsiders or their marks. And the guy in the back room that owns the hall and the table and cuts the R’s and D’s in on the action - those are the Globalist Banksters.


21 posted on 10/13/2013 6:42:21 AM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: Kaslin

This guy writes like the Marxists are disappointed at nobamacare’s problems. Not so. They are thrilled and hope even more problems appear. It’s all part of their plan to crash healthcare and then offer single-payer as the ultimate solution.

I’d bet money that the single-payer legislation has already been written. The regime is just waiting to spring it on us.


22 posted on 10/13/2013 6:48:36 AM PDT by upchuck (nobamacare must be stopped before it can live down to our expectations.)
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To: KarlInOhio

Yup. Fold now, and they will use their sizable chip-stack advantage to bleed us dry. Its like folding a decent hand in a tournament with only 8BB left. Even though it isn’t ideal, you just don’t fold.

The “chess” players are leading us over a cliff, and unfortunately have a lot of support within the party.

I still have one question for the “let them own it” crowd: Why have the Democrats (the supposedly superior chess players) been so willing to take such extreme political hits? Why did 2010 not derail them? Why did the loss of the Kennedy seat cause them to double down? Why were they willing to lose the house? Why are they alienating just about everyone, at this very moment (military, small business owners, park aficionados) with their scorched earth policy?

Maybe, just maybe, it is because they have a very, very, very good reason to make sure that the framework of ObamaCare is fully implemented, as soon as possible. And my question is: why would we play into their hands, given that we control the institution responsible for appropriations (ie - contrary to the McCain “we lost” claim, we actually won the vote, at least when it comes to funding).


23 posted on 10/13/2013 6:50:03 AM PDT by jjsheridan5
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To: Kaslin

Thank God for bad code, lousy web designers, and liberal incompetence.

In the end liberal communist, fascist, marxist, destroyers of all that is good, are really quite weak, just recognize there disadvantage and take advantage of it.


24 posted on 10/13/2013 6:54:15 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: Kaslin

Bring back American jobs.

Now.

Tax imports. We need to employ people right here in America.


25 posted on 10/13/2013 6:55:16 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
Do you actively seek out the least relevant threads in which to copy and paste this spiel?
26 posted on 10/13/2013 6:58:08 AM PDT by jjsheridan5
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To: jjsheridan5

Huh?

This is completely relevant.

America is about to potentially enter into a fight for rebirth. A significant portion of that, will be in the fight for making things in America once again.

To Tea Party. But make stuff HERE.


27 posted on 10/13/2013 7:00:22 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

“Go Tea Party”

Sorry about the mis-spelling. :D


28 posted on 10/13/2013 7:01:17 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Kaslin

Putin said playing chess with Obama was like playing against a pigeon. He would strut all over the chess board, knock over all the pieces and $hit everywhere.


29 posted on 10/13/2013 7:05:41 AM PDT by DownInFlames
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Take away quote fixed, “...and the young(just like our government) excel at doing nothing.”


30 posted on 10/13/2013 7:06:43 AM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Not necessarily disagreeing with the sentiment, but this thread is about the attempted nationalization of health care, and how to stop it. Taxing imports in order to convince manufactures to bring back jobs is a completely different issue, and has little to no bearing on whether or not to defund ObamaCare.


31 posted on 10/13/2013 7:07:03 AM PDT by jjsheridan5
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To: DownInFlames

Putin is exactly right. He figured that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania out for what he is. (As did we)


32 posted on 10/13/2013 7:09:36 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: urbanpovertylawcenter

I agree.

Republicans MUST now (and I mean right now) pass a competing bill in the House.

RIGHT NOW.

The House is under Republican control right now. Yet even in the house there is no clear Republican alternative to Obamacare.

Meanwhile we are sending jobs to China.

We need insurance for people who do not have jobs, and we need to bring back employment for Americans.

Both of those things.

Now.


33 posted on 10/13/2013 7:12:13 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Kaslin

The article has good points, however, it ignores the obvious- that the horrible boondoggle of the affordable health care act IS ON PURPOSE.


34 posted on 10/13/2013 7:13:15 AM PDT by contrarian (To call John McCain a fool would be redundant)
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To: jjsheridan5

You are exactly right, but some in here just have a one track mind


35 posted on 10/13/2013 7:14:49 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin
"no insurance market can survive if only those who will have more in claims than they pay in premiums sign up."

The author assumes that the government has an interest in actually seeing an insurance market survive. The goal of Obamacide has been, from the beginning, to develop a aingle-payer system of health care. And when Obamacide collapses of its own weight, as it inevitably will, the destruction of the insurance market leaves only one option -- Uncle Sam.

Hunter's premise only survives in an environment where a free market is allowed, which liberals have no interest in fostering.

Therefore, Obamacide is the biggest chess game of all, and by advocating allowing it any sort of hold on American life, Hunter is the one playing checkers.

36 posted on 10/13/2013 7:18:52 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (My PV2 is my hero.)
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Therefore, Obamacide is the biggest chess game of all, and by advocating allowing it any sort of hold on American life, Hunter is the one playing checkers.

Their chess players are willing to take on enormous political risk (and, political losses, in 2009 and 2010), in order to implement ObamaCare as quickly as possible (and own it). Our chess players response: implement ObamaCare as quickly as possible (and let them own it).

And we wonder why we lose.
37 posted on 10/13/2013 7:24:57 AM PDT by jjsheridan5
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To: Dusty Road

Exactly. This isn’t a chess game. Chess is where everyone’s pieces are in view. This is poker.


38 posted on 10/13/2013 7:49:52 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: Kaslin
The author has no good point at all. He want's the Republicans to leave the field of battle. That's a guaranteed defeat. If you aren't fighting in the political arena, you leave the language used to describe the problem to the whims of the opposition - by that step you lose whatever happens.

When your opponent is teetering on the edge of the cliff the proper response is to PUSH!

Regardless of how ObamaCare turns out, if the Conservative position isn't being pushed hard, the history will be written that Obama won and it was the Republicans fault.

I was careful to separate Conservative and Republican in that last paragraph. If the Republican position of 'we can fix ObamaCare' is what is pushed over the Conservative position of 'kill it', then the left wins by proclaiming that the Republican fix caused all the problems and that Republicans (and Conservatives) should never be allowed in public life again. At that point, ObamaCare is fait accompli no matter how bad it is. And if it is bad enough, the left will get their NHS.

If we try to fix the unfixable, we get blamed for any failures.

39 posted on 10/13/2013 8:39:25 AM PDT by slowhandluke (It's hard to be cynical enough in this age.)
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To: kneehurts

There are not enough of “the more intelligent” to overcome the votes of the less intelligent who do have the votes to keep the more intelligent at bay. The way things look, the country is, basically, doomed to eventual collapse. Unless, of course, the majority of the people begin to realize that, their own futures are in very deep danger; however, the democrats have been quite adept at keeping people clueless and ignorant at learning the real truth and the dire consequences that will follow.


40 posted on 10/13/2013 8:40:34 AM PDT by adorno (Y)
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