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White House Tries To Rebrand Mandate
The Washington Free Beacon ^ | 3/28/12 | Bill McMorris

Posted on 03/28/2012 8:12:03 PM PDT by Lmo56

Earnest Calls Government Mandate 'Personal Responsibility Clause' ...

The Obama administration is now referring to Obamacare as a “bi-partisan bill” and calling the unpopular individual mandate “a Republican idea,” following three days of tough questioning by the Supreme Court.

“The Affordable Care Act is a bipartisan plan and one that we think is constitutional,” Deputy White House press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters on Wednesday afternoon.

No Republican voted for the Affordable Care Act on final passage.

He also referred to the individual mandate as the “individual responsibility” clause of the bill, in an attempt to distance the administration from the term individual mandate.

“The administration remains confident that the Affordable Care Act is constitutional; one of the reasons for that is that the original personal responsibility clause…was a conservative idea,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; healthcare; obamacare; politics; scotusocareday3; scotusocareday4; zerocare
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To: The Antiyuppie
It is truly remarkable, that Democrats have suddenly discovered “personal responsibility”! When the HECK did this happen????!?!?!?!?

When it suits them. When they can suck tons and tons of money and resources out of us and calmly say "you've been denied". A very large portion of what they are about is fleecing the public. They are, plain and simply, crooks.

41 posted on 03/28/2012 11:16:30 PM PDT by Bellflower (The LORD is Holy, separated from all sin, perfect, righteous, high and lifted up.)
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To: Aria

I saw that same interview live on FNC. It was with Bill Hemmer. My head was ready to explode I was yelling at the TV.

As soon as she said she was a cancer patient, Hemmer went into defense and did not ask one probing question. Like: Did you pay less than $1,500 this time (doubtful). So many questions. But she played the the (DEM) victim very well.


42 posted on 03/29/2012 4:26:33 AM PDT by nhwingut (Sarah Palin 12... No One Else (Maybe Tim Thomas))
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To: Lmo56
You gotta give Obama credit - he's tap dancin' as fast as he can ...

As well may be, but, Gregory Hines, or Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson, he isn't...

the infowarrior

43 posted on 03/29/2012 8:51:59 AM PDT by infowarrior
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To: eyedigress
Yep! Stop using that debit card.

'Debit card'? What the heck is that?

the infowarrior

44 posted on 03/29/2012 9:02:06 AM PDT by infowarrior
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To: Snickering Hound
When this is declared unconstitutional, Obama will declare within a week that he was never for Obamacare in the first place.

We already know what he's going to say:

"It wasn't my program, per se."

45 posted on 03/29/2012 9:10:23 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (My dream ticket for 2012 is John Galt & Dagny Taggart!)
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