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PBS Dem Pundit Mark Shields: If Obamacare Fails, 'This Is The End...of Liberal Government'
NewsBusters ^ | November 16, 2013 | Tim Graham

Posted on 11/16/2013 8:47:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Barack Obama being clear that his team messed up Obamacare made it hard for liberal PBS NewsHour pundit Mark Shields to try Democrat Happy Talk.

Instead, Shields joined the liberal gloomfest: “If this goes down, if the Obama -- if health care, the Affordable Care Act is deemed a failure, this is the end -- I really mean it -- of liberal government.” He even acknowledged Obama lied about Keeping Your Plan:

MARK SHIELDS: That is -- wasn't a true statement. And you're driven to one of two conclusions. Either the president was almost -- almost negligently uncurious in not asking about what the answer was, or he made the choice to trade his considerable reputation and record of integrity for short-term political gain. That's why they had to come and that's why there was such consternation in the ranks.

JUDY WOODRUFF: How do you explain it, David, what happened, with the president acknowledging yesterday that he wasn't on top of it?

DAVID BROOKS: Yes, I think it is politics. They knew that they -- getting this thing passed -- we were there -- it was hard. And so they were pulling out every political stop in the book. And a lot of those political stops have made it harder now. The first early one was, they were really late in issuing the regulations because they didn't want them to come out during the campaign so Romney could attack them.

As a result, the whole implementation got pushed back, and that's part of the reason the Web site is such a mess. And then they made this political calculation. Then they made the -- that they weren't going to tell you there will be losers here. And they made the political calculation....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2014; aca; democrats; liberals; obama; obamacare; theend
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To: Jet Jaguar

That list of liars... is SO stolen. I’m going to post that every chance I get when arguing with liberals.

Thanky thanky thanky!


101 posted on 11/17/2013 5:09:45 AM PST by Big Giant Head
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To: Jet Jaguar

bookmark


102 posted on 11/17/2013 5:11:01 AM PST by Vision (Trayvon Martin illustrates the bankruptcy of the modern civil rights movement.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
SHIELDS: The we-ness of our society, the we, that we're all in it together, has really been diminished.

Democrats run on dividing the nation -- 1%, rich vs. poor, black vs. white, the war on women, etc. MaxiShields needs to look in the mirror.

103 posted on 11/17/2013 5:45:25 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Charles Krauthammer said it first, but it’s good that the Libtards are hearing it from one of their own.


104 posted on 11/17/2013 6:10:56 AM PST by La Lydia
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

"I believe, I believe, I believe..."

This "stuff" works about as well as obamacare.


105 posted on 11/17/2013 6:31:27 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Taxman

We dont have to do a damn thing. Obanacare will fail all on its own.


106 posted on 11/17/2013 7:11:48 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If only . .


107 posted on 11/17/2013 7:19:40 AM PST by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

‘This Is The End...of Liberal Government’

I like a story with a happy ending but it won’t be a story Hollywood will ever make.


108 posted on 11/17/2013 9:10:32 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Jet Jaguar; All

Excellent work! This should get printed out and plastered near every voting place in the country, and cut-and-pasted and emailed to liberals everywhere!

Facebooked and Tweeted too!


109 posted on 11/17/2013 9:17:46 AM PST by djf (Global warming is turning out to be a bunch of hot air!!)
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To: BenLurkin

We can dream, right?


110 posted on 11/17/2013 9:40:00 AM PST by GOPJ (Obama - "too arrogant to question his own bad judgement" ... Greenfield)
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To: Jim Noble

you questioned whether or not there were even people without homes, people going hungry prior to 1933. I didn’t read that wrong did i?


111 posted on 11/17/2013 10:15:07 AM PST by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

The issues are here now and today. This isn’t 1880 when every person could eventually find their way out west and live off the land. Focus on the now. Do you think the churches of this nation can feed and shelter all the unemployed?
I’m not saying this is all about the government, not by any stretch of the imagination but we do need jobs. The jobs we do have, the engineering and such positions are great but we need back millions of factory jobs that government policies let get away.


112 posted on 11/17/2013 10:19:51 AM PST by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: wiggen
This isn’t 1880 when every person could eventually find their way out west and live off the land

You don't just "live off the land". You have to work to make that happen.

Even in 1880 you poor people because you always will have people who are poor and it's a utopian dream to think that won't happen.

The church's role has been usurped by the Gov't. As church-goers have to pay more in taxes, the church is deprived of the money they would normally use to care for the poor.

but we do need jobs

Of course we do. But the current Gov't doesn't want the poor to benefit by having work. Their whole aim is to increase dependency.

113 posted on 11/17/2013 12:17:24 PM PST by what's up
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To: what's up

regardless of what you say the church is simply not prepared to take care of 20 million or more people. And ha ha. you don’t say,one has to work the land. Again ha ha. Just where is this open land for the taking? People were encouraged to settle. Is that the case now? Maybe a few thousand could find spots and basically live under the radar AFTER building a shelter that not very many could build on their own.


114 posted on 11/17/2013 1:05:32 PM PST by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: wiggen
regardless of what you say the church is simply not prepared to take care of 20 million or more people

I never said they would take care of 20 million; because you will never take care of everybody no matter what kind of system you have.

What I did say is that the Gov't has stolen the role of helping the unfortunate from the church. The church in general would do a much better job because they are closer to the people in need at the grassroots and can better judge what those needs are. Gov't largess takes money which would ordinarily be directed at providing charity and creating jobs and directs it toward dependency, not real help.

115 posted on 11/17/2013 1:19:42 PM PST by what's up
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To: Jim Noble

I know from history that the Obamaciles’ signature creation will match or exceed the Communist failures of he past.

The Team Obama, in their effort to redesign one seventh of the U.S. economy, failed to get the necessary education for the engineering job. If they had, they would have known a centralized planned entity like health care is a failed effort. Health care can only exist in the free market system.

In caring out my Boeing 787 Dreamliner analogy, they are trying to fly a death trap for the American people. For this reason, they are unfit to lead this nation. If I had my way they all would be facing criminal negligence charges.

For your information, check out the State of Florida’s 24 counts of third degree murder charges against SabreTech, Inc. The charges came from the 1996 ValuJet DC-9 disaster. SabreTech was found guilty of 9 charges of murder. In 1998, the FAA fined SabreTech $2.25 million for improperly preparing the oxygen canisters for shipment on the plane.

There are other cases of manufacture neglect. Let’s apply the same logic against the Obama Syndicate.


116 posted on 11/17/2013 3:28:53 PM PST by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: Chaguito

bttt


117 posted on 11/17/2013 5:04:44 PM PST by Pagey (HELL is The 2nd Term of a POTUS who uses the terms “social justice” and “fair distribution".)
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To: vette6387
"...he made the choice to trade his considerable reputation and record of integrity for short-term political gain. "


118 posted on 11/17/2013 5:46:35 PM PST by Diamond (He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people,)
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To: lowbridge

Well, I guess we disagree, lowbridge. If we don’t actively oppose Ophonybamacare, then those assholes will find a way to keep it going.


119 posted on 11/17/2013 6:57:32 PM PST by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: Deetes

Last week I saw some impeach protestors on an
over pass of Ga.400. Today someone had nailed
a plywood sign up on a tree “Impeach!”.
People are fed up.


120 posted on 11/17/2013 7:03:56 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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