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Bill Clinton blasts GOP over Obamacare
politico.com ^ | October 27, 2013 | JAMES HOHMANN

Posted on 10/27/2013 8:28:08 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

HAMPTON, Va. — Bill Clinton expressed confidence Sunday that the Obamacare web site problems will get fixed soon, and he lit into Republicans for being so critical of the law’s implementation.

“The computer deal will get fixed up. Don’t worry about that,” he said at a nighttime rally here for Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe, his third stop of the day.

The former president then recalled the problems implementing the now-popular Medicare Part D in 2006.

“Everybody’s forgotten, by the way, that when President George W. Bush and the Republicans put that Medicare Part D drug program in, it was more unpopular than the health care law and they had terrible problems with the computers,” he said. “Some seniors couldn’t even get medicine they had been getting, and the local pharmacists basically got together and made sure they stayed alive until the computers got fixed.”

Medicare Part D had some Democratic support, in contrast to the Affordable Care Act, which attracted no Republican support.

“But our side, we’re not so ideological,” said Clinton. “So, instead of bashing them and screaming about how incompetent they were, most of our people just tried to help people understand the law and make it work and then wait for it to get fixed.”

He tried to link it to a broader criticism of McAuliffe’s Republican opponent.

“There’s a big difference in being an ideologue and being practical,” said Clinton, “putting people first as opposed to some abstract philosophy first.”


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To: Graewoulf

ALL DIMocRATS voted for the obamination.


41 posted on 10/28/2013 7:26:19 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: hal ogen; All

Yup.

Spread the word: The DEMOCRATS are solely responsible for imposition of the failed Mandatory Insurance Tax Law called Obama’care.’

“If you like the Marxist Obama’care’ Law, then you should vote for Democrat Federal Politicians in 2014.”


42 posted on 10/28/2013 7:34:47 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Marxist Obama'care' Insurance violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe; hal ogen; All

How sweet it would be to tie, in the minds of the Low Information Voter, the Democrats who voted for Nationalizing 1/6 th of the US Economy to this Democrat Cash Cow, Mandatory Insurance Tax Law!

The Leftstream Media currently controls the minds of the Low Information Voter by controlling the powerful COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION POLLING CORPORATION, commonly known as COP-O-PC, pronounced “Cop O’PC.”

Right now Obama can do anything that he wants to do because of the “White Guilt” of the Leftstream Media, and a “White Guilt” mentality of jelly-spined Congressional Democrat’s Republicans.

Thus, all of the focus is directed to the incompetence of the staff that Obama has hired to protect him from knowing anything about the signature Law that he is so proud of.

It is the perfect “I know nothing” do-loop designed for gullible, jelly-spined, Red Ink, Congressional, Democrat’s Republicans such as Susan Collins, McCain, Graham, McConnell, Cornyn, Boehner, Cantor, Ryan, and New York’s Peter King.

Link Democrats to Obama’care,’ and maybe the Low Information voter will remember that it was the Democrats that wrote it, voted for it, and then it was Democrat Reid shut down the US Federal Government in 2013 to keep it from being defunded by cowardly, Cave-In, Congressional RINOs.

The Democrats have wanted this ultimate-control, Marxist Law for nearly 100 years, and now that the Democrats have rammed it down our throats we Conservatives must see to it that the Democrats are clearly held responsible for the great harm that this failed Law has already done to America.


43 posted on 10/28/2013 7:38:28 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Marxist Obama'care' Insurance violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Once a liar, always a liar.

FUBC, and the same for your “wife”.


44 posted on 10/28/2013 7:40:20 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: what's up

Part D stipulated that Medicare couldn’t negotiate prices with the drug companies like the VA could. Interesting. It passed Congress with a 216-215 vote, with only 19 Dems voting yes. Talk about a railroad job! They also passed No Child Left Behind, another usurpation of states rights. The Repubs held the WH, Senate and House when these disgraces occurred. Thanks, GWB, for nothing — Then the idiots unsurprisingly lost the 2006 election to the Dems who took over the House of Reps under the despotic rule of Frau Pelosi. They want a repeat performance in 2014.


45 posted on 10/28/2013 8:49:12 AM PDT by Sioux-san
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To: Theodore R.

I just thought I would start mentioning her name every time Bill speaks out :)


46 posted on 10/28/2013 9:07:40 AM PDT by Friendofgeorge ( Palin 2016 or bust)
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To: All

"LETS MAKE A DEAL, BILL."

Clinton posturing is understandable---if he sucks-up bigtime, he's been promised a bigger chunk of the O/CARE trillions....if and WHEN they star rolling in (cackle).

E-v-e-r-y Democrat voted for O/Care---Nationalizing 1/6th of the US Economy into a Democrat Cash Cow.. ALL the o/Care money from enrollments, fines, penalties, taxes and fees goes to your "reliable, trustworthy (gag) government."

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(Sniffle) Frankly, I'm s-o-o-o afraid good ol' Chicago Val got Carpel-Tunnel Syndrome setting up all those offshore accounts for the Obamaturds....including Dem/pols who sold their aye votes for a percentage.....,and other corrupt insiders and scumbags. All of 'em salivating over the hundreds of millions of O/care dollars they thought would be pouring in (sob).

OMG---I just hope Mrs O did not have to cancel her order for new diamonds---she might actually be forced to wear her old diamonds (wipes away tears).

Mrs O wore her pricey diamond bangles (bought on a govt salary?) at a Texas DNC fund-raiser, attended by "tolerant and compassionate" Dems....raising big bucks to keep Mr O in office so he could work for "the poor."

Mrs O's diamond Gothic cuff was priced at $15,350 set with 2.17 carats in diamonds and the Quatrefoil bracelet at $11,800 set with 1.73 carats in diamonds.

47 posted on 10/30/2013 7:10:15 AM PDT by Liz
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HI THERE, VA VOTERS, did you know Freddie Mac is located in (drum roll, please) McLean, Virginia (Terry's hometown)?

Fannie Mae is located in Wash, DC.....and both are very troubling quasi govt agencies subsidized and bailed out by taxpayers.

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SALIENT POINTS

<><> A recent Inspector General's report claims Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are masking billions of dollars in losses.

<><>Fannie/Freddie are centerpieces of the criminal enterprise called the Democrat Party-—appointed Dem cronies and collaborators loot the organization, get cushy jobs, bonuses, etc. Fannie Mae’s political machine dispenses campaign contributions, jobs to friends and relatives of legislators, hires armies of lobbyists (even paying lobbyists not to lobby against it), pays academics who wrote papers validating the sub-prime home ownership mania, and spreads “charitable” contributions to housing advocates across the congressional map.

In sum, Fannie Mae serves as an industrial-sized patronage factory — sharing profits with political allies, spreading taxpayer funds to voting blocs——like ethnic groups-——and doling out jobs to left-wing academics, Washington has-beens and back-scratching cronies.

Franklin Raines, Clinton appointee to Fannie Mae.

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THIS IS AN OFFSHORE WIRE TRANSFER ALERT--POLS READY TO CASH-IN BIGTIME: Obama, himself, says it’s time to ‘turn the page’ on Fannie and Freddie
MarketWatch | 7/24/13 | FR Posted by illiac

Obama's July speech on the US economy spelled out the beginning of the end for federally-controlled mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. “We’ll work with both parties to turn the page on Fannie and Freddie, and build a housing finance system that’s rock-solid for future generations,” Obama said, according to a copy of his prepared remarks.

The House Financial Services Committee approved a bill in July that would get rid of the firms in five years, to be replaced by a National Mortgage Market Utility to help "securitize" mortgages. (Excerpt) more at blogs.marketwatch.com

NOTE WELL WHAT OBAMA "FORGOT" TO MENTION Page A15 WSJ report entitled “Treasury’s Fannie Mae Heist“.

WSJ excerpt: The Federal government is seizing the substantial profits of the government-chartered mortgage firms, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taking for itself the property and potential gains of private investors the government induced to help prop up these companies. This conduct is intolerable.” A scathing article follows--a must read.

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A HOLDER F/M COVER-UP? for massive sub-prime mtge fraud perpetrated by (1) the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (as vote-crazed Obama/Dems suck-up for latino votes), AND (2) ACORN.

48 posted on 10/30/2013 7:16:26 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Tailgunner Joe
“But our side, we’re not so ideological,” said Clinton.

LOL!

5.56mm

49 posted on 10/30/2013 7:17:56 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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