Sunday, February 19, 2017

Whip Obamacare now!

The weeks since inauguration day are the longest period that Congress has failed to vote to repeal Obamacare.

Just sayin'.

The Times reports:

As liberals overwhelm congressional town hall-style meetings and deluge the Capitol phone system with pleas to protect the health law, there is no similar clamor for dismantling it, Mr. Obama’s signature legislative accomplishment. From deeply conservative districts in the South and the West to the more moderate parts of the Northeast, Republicans in Congress say there is significantly less intensity among opponents of the law than when Mr. Obama was in office.
“I hear more concerns than before about ‘You’re going to repeal it, and we’re all going to lose insurance’ because they don’t think we’re going to replace it,” said Representative Mike Simpson, a Republican who represents a conservative district in Idaho.

(Laughter)



19 comments:

  1. Since Obamacare is working so super duper wonderfully well, obviously the answer is to leave it alone.

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  2. Change to single-payer. It was a mistake to make concessions to rightwingers who don't care if people suffer and die.

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  3. [Harry:] It was a mistake to make concessions to rightwingers who don't care if people suffer and die.

    It is right here I shall resist dealing with someone left braindead from zealotry.

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  4. Damn. Can't stand the temptation.

    To which rightwingers were concessions made?

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  5. Everything right of single payer was a concession to the right. They did not respond. Wonder why?

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  6. Stop your goal post shifting. Obama had complete control of Congress. To which right wingers was he making concessions?

    (Ignoring for the moment your manifold ignorance about single payer.)

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  7. That's what made it a concession; he was attempting to make the program more palatable to all citizens.

    You are becoming very tiresome; I know you are not as stupid as you are pretending to be

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  8. [Harry, Feb 22:] It was a mistake to make concessions to rightwingers who don't care if people suffer and die.

    annnddd ...

    [Harry, Feb 24:]That's what made it a concession; he was attempting to make the program more palatable to all citizens.

    I think you are as foolish as you appear to be.

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  9. Feel free to provide evidence that rightwingers care about people suffering and dying

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  10. Harry, feel free to not change the subject.

    You asserted Obama made concessions to rightwingers, during a time when the Dems controlled congress.

    Fine. Tell me exactly which rightwingers, precisely what concessions, and why.

    Oh, and while you are at it, please explain how you morphed from Feb 22 to Feb 24.

    Enquiring minds want to know.

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  11. It used to be Romneycare. The clunky structure of Obamacare, rather than a clean, simple, cheap single payer, was an attempt to co-opt the rightwing to help at least some, if not all, suffering people.

    You keep making my point for me. Mahalo

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  12. [Harry, Feb 22:] It was a mistake to make concessions to rightwingers who don't care if people suffer and die.

    annnddd ...

    [Harry, Feb 24:]That's what made it a concession; he was attempting to make the program more palatable to all citizens.


    That's a perfect example of goal post shifting, right there. And since you can't name any rightwingers to which Obama made concessions, then you rubbished your own post.

    Please tell me your standards as a journalist weren't this abysmal.

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  13. Why are you pretending to be stupid?

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  14. While Obama was in office, Congress repealed Obamacare about 60 times. Under Trump, not even once.

    It's time for the rightwingers to admit it was all a charade, the have no idea what to do

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  15. Harry, first things first:

    [Harry, Feb 22:] It was a mistake to make concessions to rightwingers who don't care if people suffer and die.

    annnddd ...

    [Harry, Feb 24:]That's what made it a concession; he was attempting to make the program more palatable to all citizens.

    That's a perfect example of goal post shifting, right there. And since you can't name any rightwingers to which Obama made concessions, then you rubbished your own post.

    Besides, I thought changing the subject caused you to get all frowny faced.

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  16. You are pretending to be stupid again. It does not become you.

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  17. You were the one who said it was mistake to make concessions to rightwingers, then can't name any.

    And the one who gets the supersadz whenever the subject gets changed.

    You aren't in any position to be calling anyone else stupid.

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  18. What is abundantly clear, though, is that once again you are blowing it our your hat.

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