I’ve already learned to be very skeptical of these “signals.” After all, the route of 2010 didn’t “signal” anything we expected for 2012.
It was all about Ocare until the results came in.
UH,,some reporter at the Trib is going to get a very unhappy phone call,,probably from the Mayor
THOUSANDS?!?!? Well, if you mean many thousands of thousands, maybe. At least 5 million and counting...
They'd already had plenty of warnings.
Yea, even if one returned from the dead, the Dems would not listen.
If they haven't promised to vote to overturn it, they own it, paint them with it 100% of the time.
If they are in state or local gov't and support it, they own it, paint them with it 100% of the time.
If the haven't said anything about it, but are Demoncrats, they own it, paint them with it 100% of the time.
This is a potentially historic time, just like 1994. I just hope that this time the Republicans refrain from acting like Demoncrats and don't line their pockets getting their share before they are tossed out on the asses, like the last time.
There is a big backlash coming. Little by little people are finding out what is in it. They are getting angrier and angrier by the day. Just wait until the 2014 elections. The democrats will pay dearly. The only place the democrats will win big is in the big cities.
“...to the thousands of policy cancellations...”
Try several hundreds of thousands or even millions.
THERE IS NO ‘FIXING’ THIS 3,000 PAGE FIASCO!!!
By “fix” they mean GO TO SINGLE PAYER
This is precisely why the Tea Party was born. Me-too Republicans who co-opt leftist causes and issues, just because it's their turn to feed at the trough.
Chicago Tribune = less sophisticated but just as full of sh!# version of the NYT / LAT.
ITEM Sink took a clear position WRT O/Care----she never voted for it but said she would go to Congress to "fix it."
ITEM The week before the election, Bill Clinton starred in robocalls that went out to local Democratic volunteers
ITEM over a half-dozen lock-stepping House Democrats in league w/ the Clintons emailed fundraising appeals on Sink’s behalf.
ITEM Sinks's "O/CAre fixit" position is Hillary's O/Care position exactly.Read on.
REFERENCE---Hillary Clinton insists O/Care is too important to “turn the clock back.”
The Politico ^ | March 5, 2014 | David Nather / FR Posted by 2ndDivisionVet
In a question-and-answer session following a lecture at UCLA, Hillary Clinton suggested she’s open to different ways of achieving the health law’s goals.
Hillary praised Arkansas — the state where she and her husband rose to political fame — for carrying out a new approach to expanding Medicaid coverage, by using the federal money to buy private health insurance for more than 100,000 low-income residents.
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Too bad, Hillary---back to the drawing board.
Democrats are feeling the sting of the electorate----voters steaming from broken promises, the disastrous online rollout, hundreds of thousands of policy cancellations, sticker shock over coverage, ruinous deductibles, fleeing doctors, chaotic hospital networks, and Obama's self-serving changes and delays in the law to make himself look good.
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As a candidate, Republican David Jolly was nearly abandoned by the Party — some Washington Republicans described Jolly’s campaign as a Keystone Cops operation, marked by inept fundraising, top advisers stationed hundreds of miles away from the district, outspent by his opponent as Democrats poured money into her campaign.
Jolly lit into Sink's position to "fix" the train wreck Obamacare.
A blockbuster Jolly campaign ad referenced lock-stepping Dems (who marched smartly to der leader's dictates and passed the law by an historic straight Democrat party-line vote).
Jolly's ad cautioned voters that the district needed a rep who will defend THEIR interests---not those of Obama.
BACKSTORY As far back as 2008, at the presidential debate in Nashville, Democrat candidate Obama advanced his signature healthcare plan---ultimately enacted, by an historic straight Democrat party-line vote, into the "Affordable Care Act"
QUOTING 2008 OBAMA: "No. 1, let me just repeat, if you’ve got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it. All I’m going to do is help you to lower the premiums on it. You’ll still have choice of doctor.”
Repeated over and over again---- with his promise that every American family would be saving $2500.00 on healthcare costs.
Significantly, Obamba NEVER corrected lock-stepping Democrats, all reading from the same Democrat talking points, all of them repeating the same Democrat promises---over and over again.
LOCK-STEPPING PARTY LOYALTY NOT SEEN SINCE 1930-40's ERA EUROPE Obama and the Dems marched in lockstep.....the persistent Dumbocrat drumbeat ---- in obeisance to Obama ---- kept ringing reassuringly in our ears: "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan."
QUOTING SEN. RICHARD DURBIN: “We believe — and we stand by this — if you like your current health insurance plan, you will be able to keep it, plain and simple, straightforward.” (Sen. Durbin, Congressional Record, S.6401, 6/10/09)