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To: Tennessean4Bush
Republicans, with their commanding lead in the House, in which all appropriations bills must originate, are able to reduce the damage done by CommieCare by 40% through the funding mechanism. They are able to blunt the effects of another 15% by attaching riders to bills that contain liberal-backed measures that do permanent damage to education, the military, the justice system, and the social structure of our country. They are able to get another 5% reduction in CommieCare damage by the use of the speaker's chair as a bully pulpit.

Total CommieCare attenuation factor: ~60%. This leaves 40% of the onerous aspects of CommieCare in place, and this 40%, as it kicks in, throws millions of people out of their private plans, shuts down hundreds of hospitals nationwide, and results in hundreds of thousands of premature deaths among middle-class Americans, many of whom traditionally voted Republican.

Working with the media, Obama and the Democrats are able to sell the idea that the reason "health care reform" isn't working is because of the terrible changes the Republicans, working with "Big Pharma" and "The Hospital Lobby" have been able to "ram through" so as to "sacrifice the health of millions of Americans on the altar of profit." Too many average Americans believe it, and Obama sails to victory in 2012, with a smaller but still decisive majority in the House and Senate.

The State Run Media declares that "Obama's New Majority" have "A Mandate To Put It Back And Then Some," which was Majority Leader Elect Waxman's campaign slogan.

16 posted on 10/18/2010 12:37:43 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: Steely Tom

I don’t like your narrative, but I would be lying if I hadn’t thought it myself (or something like it). Strategery in this case cannot be misunderestimated.


19 posted on 10/18/2010 12:44:24 PM PDT by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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To: Steely Tom
If that was your entry into the scariest Halloween story, you win.
20 posted on 10/18/2010 12:48:55 PM PDT by JPG (Sarah Palin says: "Buck-up or get out of the truck.")
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To: Steely Tom

It’s a scary story you spin, but it relies on Obama winning back the people he won in 2008 but lost in 2010. These people can be convinced to come back to him in 2012? Not likely I think.

And the tea party isn’t going away. And Obama can’t run on “hope and change” as the incumbent. He can’t build an entire presidential campaign by saying republicans are evil — if that worked then 2010 would be in the bag for him.


41 posted on 10/18/2010 1:55:38 PM PDT by Uncledave
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To: Steely Tom

If the bottom really has blown out of the boat...as I’m afraid the current pack of fools may have done...’Bammycare and the American Middle class are not but a historical footnote.


43 posted on 10/18/2010 2:01:30 PM PDT by mo
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To: Steely Tom

Our work is cut our for us - no?


61 posted on 10/18/2010 4:33:30 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (T minus 15 days to SMACKDOWN - Tea Party like it's 1773! Pray 2 Chronicles 7:14!)
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