Will Chuckie, the newly-minted Obamacare deserter, vote to repeal this monstrosity? Of course not. This is just a transparent attempt to distance Hillary and the Democrat Party from this disaster before her 2016 run for the presidency.
I listened carefully to Schumer’s remarks. He really wasn’t saying Obamacare was a bad law, just that it was something they should have put in place AFTER they had done all the other pro-government measures that their constituency wanted.
It’s similar to what many on the right have said on many core lefty issues - the had control of the White House, Senate, AND the House for two years ... so why didn’t they do that then? So Schumer here is basically agreeing with that and realizing that their party missed their chance by not acting on more important lefty issues early on ... and then incrementally building support for, or enacting in a piecemeal fashion, something like Obamacare.
But he still supports the law, and there is NO way that he would vote to repeal it.
Bingo! we are still stuck with Obie Care.
“This is just a transparent attempt to distance Hillary and the Democrat Party from this disaster before her 2016 run for the presidency.”
Right; by 2016 Dems will act like they’ve never heard of Barack Hussein Obama. Should be easy; they won’t have him over once he’s out of power. He’ll be relegated literally to slumming, pontificating to the only group that ever listened to him.
Exactly, because he wants to be in the cabinet...
It’s only being done so that Hillary and Warren can use the soundbite later. Wait and watch for both to agree with Chucky. not much will be made of it, now, but it’s simply for OPTICS and NARRATIVE later on in the campaigns.
Perceptive of you to recognize that Schumer is blowing smoke, and I agree 100%.