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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I have no patience for those that want to make excuses for Republicans or want me to wait 'just a little longer'.
No more being nice.
/johnny
Amen. The media is the real obstruction to the conservative and republican establishment and that goes for Fox News. At times they seem real conservatives and later turn around and back stab on Fox. I don’t agree With Andrea Tantaros or Dana PeRino on immigration.
Boehner is not in the Senate.
>> “The current Republican house voted to fund Obamacare when they didn’t have to.
Of course, they want it.” <<
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Abundantly clear to me.
We have too many GOPe subversives here.
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>> “Here you are: its 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.” <<
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OK, Name these “good things.”
/johnny
It couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch. Too bad that America was the casualty along with the commies.
Bttt
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