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Top Democrat (Schumer) sets off intraparty fury after saying Obamacare passage was a ‘mistake’
Fusion ^ | 26 Nov 2014 | BRETT LOGIURATO

Posted on 11/26/2014 4:14:13 PM PST by shove_it

Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-New York) comments on Wednesday about Democrats’ misguided focus on health care in President Barack Obama’s first term prompted backlash from top Democrats and left-leaning groups, who accused him of being politically craven.

At a speech before the National Press Club in Washington on Tuesday, Schumer said Democrats made a mistake by entering into a fight over health care after they passed the 2009 economic stimulus.

His reasoning: Democrats were targeting the uninsured, a population that he said makes up only about 5 percent of registered voters. Only about one-third of the uninsured, he said, are registered or eligible to vote...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: abortion; aca; chuckschumer; deathpanels; democratdissention; miserablefailure; newyork; obamacare; ratfight; ratrevolt; ratseatrats; schmuckschemer; schumer; upchuckschumer; zerocare
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To: TomGuy
He might also be trying to provide preemptive cover for the Dem nominee in 2016 — make the economy the issue.

Precisely. He said they should have focused on the economy, jobs, and other concerns of the middle class. Setting them up to go for the middle class in 2016.

41 posted on 11/26/2014 6:00:38 PM PST by firebrand
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To: 5thGenTexan

He is being disingenuous. He knows it was to turn us into a socialist state. Or it must have slipped his mind when he was trying to figure out how to appear like an elder statesman.


42 posted on 11/26/2014 6:17:22 PM PST by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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To: shove_it

Schumer is a mistake.


43 posted on 11/26/2014 7:13:29 PM PST by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: shove_it

I live on Long Island. I can tell you this, there are many people out here like me me that are totally disgusted with this DEMOCRAP PARTY!!!...I m Conservative,so I do feel like I m in the wilderness with gangsters like CUOMO and CHUCK in charge.One day people will wake up and CHUCK will go back to chasing ambulances on the lower east side!


44 posted on 11/26/2014 7:17:11 PM PST by MGunny
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To: shove_it

Shmuckie is part of the leadership...my guess is he went out to test the water for throwing Obama under the buss!!


45 posted on 11/27/2014 3:16:56 AM PST by ontap
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To: shove_it

If Chuckie can rally a few Dims to vote to over-ride Obama on the Obamacare repeal, why not give him a chance? I say not so fast. He’s a schmuck, so a couple questions.

1. What’s in it for him? You know he wants something. Possibly he wants another opportunity to shake down insurers, drug companies, hospital corporations, and the AMA?

2. At what point in the process will he stab conservatives in the back? It’s coming. After all, he’s a schmuck.


46 posted on 11/27/2014 8:37:23 AM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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OK - So who stopped the National Guard from being in Ferguson MO on the first night?
Could it be lovely Iranian-born Muslim Valerie Jarrett who was on the phone all night with (D-MO) Governor Nixon?


47 posted on 11/27/2014 11:19:11 AM PST by devolve (- barter &/or trade items &/or services - let the IRS and DOJ get their money from illegal aliens -)
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