Posted on 01/30/2019 10:30:42 AM PST by Red Badger
As Twitchy reported, Sen. Kamala Harris made news during her CNN town hall Monday night by suggesting it was time to eliminate private health insurance altogether and move everyone to Medicare for all. “Let’s eliminate all that. Let’s move on,” she laughed.
Plenty of people weren’t amused by the idea of their health insurance being taken away, and now it looks like Harris is doing some damage repair.
NEW: Kamala Harris is backtracking on her calls to eliminate all private health insurance in supporting Medicare for all, with an advisor and her spokesman saying she’s open to more moderate plans preserving the private health insurance industry. https://t.co/RCZG8wIkPH
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) January 30, 2019
BREAKING: Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) changes her stance on healthcare in under 24 hours after her CNN town hall
"As the furor grew," a Harris adviser said "she would also be open to the more moderate health reform plans, which would preserve the industry"https://t.co/8BABosnkk5
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) January 30, 2019
Oh, she’s “open” to not shutting down the entire health insurance industry and forcing everyone onto a government plan? That’s nice.
.@KamalaHarris caves after less than 24 hours of criticism from rivals.
It turns out getting rid of hundreds of thousands of jobs is not popular. https://t.co/eXPzuIQNJn
— Joel B. Pollak (@joelpollak) January 30, 2019
Democrats sure want to put a lot of people out of business: coal miners, health insurers …
This is going great so far. pic.twitter.com/KO3tr0NhPf
— Gentleman Jon Snow (@jvgraz) January 30, 2019
pic.twitter.com/mSObRr7Z2O
— Nick (@Nico_Suave21) January 30, 2019
That didn't take too long. Expect a whole lot more of same from this phony neolib. I mean ffs how hard is it to actually read the bill that has your damn name on it, Kamala?
— BansheeBabe (@bansheebabe) January 30, 2019
Too late
— Escobedo (@margo_escobedo) January 30, 2019
Nah. She meant what she said.
— Cosette DeCesare (@cosettedecesare) January 30, 2019
Lol that was fast
— Doug Stafford (@dougstafford) January 30, 2019
That didn’t take long
— Sell the team Bob!! (@JB_SteelCity) January 30, 2019
Kamala Chameleon.
— Cody Rucker (@CodyRucker7) January 30, 2019
thank u, next
— enema of the state (@ThatSassySherif) January 30, 2019
LOL.
Didn't I predict this yesterday?
Her M4A position was completely untenable for the General Election.
Progressives are fooling themselves if they believe any candidate is going into the General with the position they are going to socialize 1/6 of the American economy. https://t.co/ILhQ3eXc6O
— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D., M.S. (@Neoavatara) January 30, 2019
That said…NO ONE SHOULD BELIEVE THIS MODERATION.
She was quite clear in what she believed in with her comments last night. There was no trepidation on her part.
This is her strategists trying to fix her gaffe. Nothing more.
— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D., M.S. (@Neoavatara) January 30, 2019
If she had said "Yeah, I'd consider M4A or other stuff" she would have been on safe ground.
That is not what she said. And those words are going to be used against her at some point.
— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D., M.S. (@Neoavatara) January 30, 2019
This is the problem though.
Marginal Dem candidates (including Bernie) can take this position…because they have almost no chance of getting to the general.
The mainstream candidates (especially Harris, Biden) can't…so they are going to be flanked to their left.
— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D., M.S. (@Neoavatara) January 30, 2019
You can either be a progressive darling…or a mainstream moderate candidate.
You can't be both.
— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D., M.S. (@Neoavatara) January 30, 2019
She’s trying!
So she stands for nothing. Good to know. She only wants power.
— Scully 🇺🇸 (@dhighway61) January 30, 2019
Related:
New Kamala Harris 2020 slogan? ‘If you don’t like your government plan, well, you’re screwed’ https://t.co/m1ZIo5hjAV
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 29, 2019
Hat Tip to Mass55th................................
Not gonna win her a lot of fans on the Left who are demanding socialized healthcare NOW!
Not so fast.
Her base is leftist. Leftists are idiots.
They’ll forget as soon as they’re told to and believe whatever they’re told to right after.
Heck, you can get those idiots to believe 15 completely contrary things a day if they’re told from proper NPC broadcasters.
figured she’d back down, but it’s still red meat to the base. she won’t have to explain that until the general.
in fact, during the primaries, she will have a more difficult time explaining that fact that she moderated her stance on single payer, than explaining her original stance o single payer.
Harris: “Yes, I have a wonderful plan to reform and centrally-plan the $6 Trillion health-care sector. Oh wait, maybe not.”
America has always had stupid and unserious politicians.
The problem is - they have never had so much power, debt and printed money to spend as they do now.
....she’s done more negotiations on her back than the Kardashians and Stormy Daniels fweakin combined...
Maybe BMW is concerned that Congress wouldn’t be exempt from her proposed atrocity.
Glad to help!!
Liberals are champions of the trial balloons, expecting most to fail spectacularly at the beginning, hoping that repeated trials will wear down the voters. Most voters give up far too soon, and with it, give up our freedoms.
Republican coffers will now be filled with insurance company money. Self inflicted dem wound.
The insurance industry thought they could save their sorry butts by supporting Obamacare. How’s that workin’?
That’s her ‘Fallback’ position................
She basically backtracked herself right back into Obamacare.
Kamela’s California rape kit scandal!
“Kamela, also, protected a lot rapists while serving as California’s AG!”
“Unprocessed rape kits in California while Kamala was the state AG!”:
If she had done her job as our state AG, there would not be hundreds if not thousands of Rape Kits not processed.
Maybe some females in California and the nation can bring this scandal forward after Kamala convenitly forgot about them.
CA ‘rape kit’ backlog under fire Capitol Weekly | Capitol Weekly ...
capitolweekly.net/rape-kit-backlog-under-fire/
Apr 11, 2018 - Thousands of California women who said they were raped gave ... But many of the rape kits were not examined in a timely way, caught in a ...
No one knows how many untested rape kits there are in California ...
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-rape-kits-legislation-20170525-story.html
May 26, 2017 - Assembly Bill 41 would require law enforcement agencies to report to the state how many sexual assault kits they collected and have examined ...
The unconscionable backlog of unprocessed rape kits in California ...
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-rape-kits-20180521-story.html
May 21, 2018 - The rape kit backlog is, unfortunately, not a new problem, though ... that the procedure will further the investigation, not just add to a collection of ...
Destroyed: How the trashing of rape kits failed victims and jeopardizes ...
www.cnn.com/interactive/2018/11/investigates/police-destroyed-rapekits/index.html
Nov 29, 2018 - Where police did not redact that information, CNN did, including the full names of ... A CNN investigation into the destruction of rape kits in dozens of agencies ..... of Prosecuting Attorneys and a career California prosecutor.
‘Disturbing’ rape kit investigation prompts action - CNN - CNN.com
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/05/health/rape-kits-destroyed-reaction.../index.html
Dec 5, 2018 - A CNN investigation prompts officials to tell police: Do not destroy rape kits.
why is she getting any press at all and why are the Dems allowing her on their ticket? As a former DA she should be completely aware of her ineligibility for office under the natural born clause. She is an anchor baby.
Why are we sitting back and letting our Constitution be trashed in the name of being afraid to challenge a person of color flaunting the rules? And if we’re going to break the rules for people of color, what happens when we have a Chinese national anchor baby run for president next?
Communist.
Needs a helicopter ride.
Of all things in America, they most fear being called a ‘racist’.
The Dems are exploiting that to the fullest.
A Chinese national anchor baby run for president next? No one would say a word.............................
There was a comedy movie a few years back, Rob Schneider was in it as was Norm MacDonald. In it, as a side story, was a black guy that was a friend of Schneider’s character. He would break all kinds of societal rules and knew he could get away with it because he was black. Smoking indoors, breaking in lines, doing all sorts of stuff wrong, but white people ignored him for fear of being called a ‘racist’..........Art imitates life, and vice versa............
If she doesn’t have it right in the first place and has to backtrack on very important issues, then what does that say about her temperament?
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