Posted on 12/07/2014 12:14:48 PM PST by Zakeet
A civil war has opened up inside the Democratic Party over Obamacare.
With half of all Senate Democrats who voted for Obamacare no longer in office, top Senate Democrats Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and outgoing Tom Harkin (D-IA) have begun trashing Democrats' decision to embrace the deeply unpopular Obamacare program. Indeed, even progressive New York Times columnist Tom Edsall now concedes that Obamacare is partly to blame for working-class Americans' all-time low 27% approval rating of Democrats, which Edsall says has now nosedived to "dangerous levels."
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"If more Democrats had been willing to defend the best thing they've done in decades, rather than run away from their own achievement and implicitly concede that the smears against health reform were right, the politics of the issue might look very different today," wrote [Paul] Krugman.
However, with embattled Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber set to testify on Tuesday about his shocking statements about "the stupidity of the American voter" and his contention that deception was essential to Obamacare's passage, it's unclear how an already unpopular law will turn public opinion around.
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Hey democrats, you were warned by the citizenry, time and time and time again, at town halls, by email, by letters, by polling, not to wreck health care for the 95% just to gain the votes of the 5%. But nooooo; we were too stupid, too selfish, too callous and uncaring, and you were so brilliant, so sensitive, so SMART! NOW EMBRACE THE SUCK, YOU JACKASSES!
The last I read Obama illegally delayed it to Oct, 2016.
Bitchy McConnell said in his interview on Fox this week they want to fix it.
That turd needs to be flushed as badly and impotent Boehner.
Its always good to remember that there is no such thing as a good Democrat.......
The dilemma that the elected R’s face is that it’s been so good to them electorally, that they would be hard-pressed to repeal it. As soon as they do, they’ll start losing elections again.
You all need to start analyzing second level consequences. I’m not saying they are right not to strangle the ACA, it’s a disaster for the fabric of the country; but it’s a heavy lift to actually defund something that has made winning elections so easy.
No.
You don't get to make those rules for other people.
/johnny
And once NeroCare becomes as familiar to the parasite class and newly minted Citizen-Ciminal Invader Hoards as Medicaid/SSI disability/EBTs that will change. As they already outnumber those footing the bill.
By 16 it will be ingrained in the L.I.V. as a basic right.
You can at that time thank two Morons. John Boehner and Mitch McPost Turtle.
The voters will be disgusted and stay home. White House will Go Rat and they will get the Senate back.
I’ve seen this Movie before. Early 2000s. The RINOs get drunk on power...
what’s fun about this is that Mullah Obama keeps giving both sides more ammo
If Obamacare is the BEST THING Democrats have done in decades they must be even worse than I ever imagined. It is like a chef serving up a roast skunk and saying it is the best dish he has ever created.
Your losers are going to figure out that the public is out of patience with them.
/johnny
They want to blame someone, but the only one they can is their president and themselves. It's really very entertaining.
Really?!?!?!
Have they started shooting each other yet?
Unfortunately that was the whole point of the bill.
Question is where they want to go from it. New York is about to dump it for a single payer non commercial system.
I don’t think so. I believe it started in 2014.
The ‘Individual mandate’ delayed to 2016.
The Blaze title - “White House Delays Individual Mandate for Millions of Americans Until After the Midterms and the President Is Out of Office”
“...The delay will be good until at least 2016.
This means that the individual mandate, the core of the Affordable Care Act, as the Wall Street Journal termed it, will be put off for millions of American until well after this years midterm elections and until President Barack Obama is out of office. “
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Unless the fake in the White House has changed things since March. When you see the Fed tax returns for 2014, you’ll definitely know for sure.
Here you are: it’s a story about civil war in the Democrat party, and all you can do is whine and snivel about Republicans. Man up! There are good things happening out there.
DEPOPULATE socialists from the body politic. DEFUND/DISMANTLE their collectives/programs.
Let the National Socialists kill each other in private life.
I'm against all liberals, including Republican liberals.
Get used to it.
I can't get rid of the liberal Democrats, but I can make being a liberal republican a political kiss of death.
And I'm going to get a lot less polite about it.
/johnny
Get out your popcorn for this Democrat Tong War
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