Posted on 01/16/2014 9:53:40 AM PST by cotton1706
Conservative and Republican affiliated groups have started the 2014 assault against Democrats who support Obamacare. At the very same time, it is increasingly clear Republicans are laying the groundwork to abandon their opposition to Obamacare.
The Business Roundtable, which has a great relationship with Republican Leaders, is now listing Obamacare as an entitlement worth preserving.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former economic advisor to John McCain and who opposed passage of Obamacare, has started a think tank premised on keeping, but fixing, Obamacare. Holtz-Eakin has the ear of Republican leaders. In 2009, Mitch McConnell appointed him to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
The Chamber of Commerce is declaring it will work to fix, not repeal, Obamacare. In fact, just last week the head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said, “The administration is obviously committed to keeping the law in place, so the chamber has been working pragmatically to fix those parts of Obamacare that can be fixed.”
Concurrent to this, the Chamber of Commerce has begun funding candidates to beat conservatives in Republican primaries.
The Republican Main Street Partnership, headed by former Congressman LaTourette — who is a friend of Speaker John Boehner — is working with the Chamber and party leaders to target conservatives the party leadership finds troublesome. LaTourette has been parroting talking points from the National Republican Senatorial Committee about the Senate Conservatives Fund, Club for Growth, and others.
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‘Replace’ was the code word for the same federally controlled healthcare under a republican progressive brand.
People really don’t want the federal government planning anything of their healthcare except for public health hazards that cross state or national lines.
So, I get it, you didn’t vote for Romney because he’s too liberal.
How’s Obama’s “more conservative” mindset working for you???
About as well as having a Republican president PUSHING the "right" to abortion, PUSHING the environmental hoax, PUSHING the gay agenda, PUSHING nationalized health care, PUSHING more and more and bigger and bigger government, thank you for asking!
How is having the Republican party continue being dominated by functional liberal statist Democrats working out for YOU, jda?
Because your vote for Romney WAS A VOTE FOR HAVING IT DO JUST THAT. How is it working out for you?
Again, I know how you feel. But, I can’t believe Romney would have been as overwhelmingly bad as Obama is - he’s not working out very well for anyone.
Of course, the answer is to elect true Conservatives in the primaries, and then elect them to office.
F the Whigs.
I know how you feel.
My feelings USED to dictate my vote -- for example, when I voted "against" Jerry Brown by voting for Meg Whitman, a "Republican" in the mold of Mitt Romney. I felt emotionally desperate enough to vote against my own interests out of FEAR, another feeling, of Brown. That vote for Whitman was 100 percent all about "feelings" and zero percent logic.
Today, LOGIC dictates my vote. Regardless of how I or you or anyone else "feels" about it, voting for liberal Republicans is voting FOR making the Republican party more leftist.
Feelings tell you that you can vote "against."
Logic and math confirm that voting "against" is a mathematical sophistry, that voting "against" is as futile as hunting unicorns. You believe Romney wouldn't have been as bad as Obama, but had Romney been elected, the ONLY THING that would matter now is what you voted FOR, and what you voted FOR, in spite of any feelings one way or another, was for the Republican PRESIDENT to embrace the big government mentality of the left, and thereby strengthen tenfold every leftist in the Republican party.
What I FEEL is sadness and frustration at the inability of people's minds to accept the truth that then it come to voting, it is EXACTLY like a light switch -- you either turn it on, or leave the light off. Those are the ONLY two options, regardless of any feelings.
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