'Obamacare' under attack as conservatives eye 2016

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By STEVE PEOPLES

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - Republicans eyeing the 2016 White House race battered President Barack Obama's health care law and nicked each other Saturday, auditioning before a high-profile gathering of conservatives that some political veterans said marked the campaign's unofficial start.

A speaking program packed with potential presidential candidates weighed in on the House Republicans' controversial budget, the party's struggle with Hispanics, the GOP's future and the upcoming midterm elections while taking turns on a conference room stage facing hundreds of conservative activists gathered in New Hampshire's largest city.

But the Republican Party's near-universal opposition to the president's health care law dominated the conversation just days after Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius resigned after leading the rocky rollout of the program derided as "Obamacare."

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz declared that one resignation is not enough. "We are going to repeal every single word of Obamacare," said the first-term senator and tea party favorite.

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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. speaks at a GOP Freedom Summit, Saturday, April 12, 2014, in Manchester, N.H. Several potential Republican White House contenders _ among them Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, Sen. Ted Cruz, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee _ headline a conference Saturday in New Hampshire, hosted by the conservative groups Citizens United and Americans for Prosperity. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

[Archae]

1. "Battered?"

More like run from it.

The only "batter" is the pancakes on their heads.

[kardonb]

9. batty

the game is on : lets see who can run their head most often against an immovable object . Must make them a little dizzy and disoriented , not to say STUPID !

[Skittles]

19. battered by the corporate media

[SevenSixtyTwo]

2. That's the best argument they have?

"We are going to repeal every single word of Obamacare," said the first-term senator and tea party favorite.

And replace it with what?

[calimary]

4. Sorry, "Carnival cruz"! NO you're NOT!

How 'bout WE repeal every single word of YOURS?

[Timez Squarez]

8. I'm sure Texas is waiting with baited breath to get Cruz out of here in '16.

[calimary]

12. Welcome to DU, Timez Squarez!

Glad you're here. I'm assuming you're being sarcastic here. I'm NOT so sure Texas is waiting with baited breath to get cruz out of there in '16. Any state that can send a louie gohmert to Congress, or any of the other jerks there now who are openly kicking around the idea of impeaching the President or denying climate change or any of the other bozo-idiot "ideas" they embrace - well, I have grave doubts that they're anxious to kick cruz outta there.

I listen to this individual with as much objectivity as I can muster, and I'm still left slack-jawed and asking - "WHO THE HELL THINKS THIS GUY IS WORTH SENDING TO WASHINGTON?????" "WHO THE HELL THINKS THIS GUY MAKES ANY SENSE AT ALL AND IS WORTH GETTING BEHIND????" And I come up with nothing as far as answers. I come up with no way to figure that out. I can't see it in a million years - how a guy like ted cruz can fool so many people with his phony "eloquence" (mainly by inserting frequent "pregnant" pauses in his speechifying, probably a device he learned in debate class. That little bit of dead air will grab people's attention. It's a device that has been used in music and on radio for an awfully long time). I don't see the appeal of this guy at all. Audibly OR visually OR philosophically. Just don't see it. Mainly because it's not there, period! But he sure can fool a lot of people.

ted cruz is as phony as a plastic Jesus, and struck me that way from the very beginning.

I've gotta admit - it really makes me question the intelligence and discernment - and the agenda - of people who vote divisive schmucks like him into office. You can't really take a politician to task if you don't first look at the people who choose to elevate politicians like that into power. It starts with THEM.

The brainwashing, it seems, is complete.

[Cheerful Charlie]

15. There is no such thing as what "Texas" wants.

[Timez Squarez]

7. And replace it with what?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Single payer?

Free health care at the expense of 1%?

Or you would prefer to shut up and die?

Well, Rand and Ted - guess what? You lose automatically anyway.

[Cheerful Charlie]

16. Medical care savings accounts. :)

Save up your spare change and pay for your MRI.

[sakabatou]

20. The have the "Let Them Eat Cake" Law in the works

[Skink]

3. This is a party that is Stuck on stupid

[doxydad]

5. never going to happen...

Obamacare is here to stay. Cruz and the other mooks can deal with it.

[calimary]

13. Welcome to DU, doxydad!

Glad you're here too! Back in 2001 when those of us who objected to the phony "victory" of bush/cheney, having to run sniveling like spoiled six-year-olds to the Supreme Court to "MAKE THEM GIMME THAT TOY, MOMMY!!!!!", they shouted us down and bullied us and hounded us to "Get Over It."

Well, cruz and the other mooks need to GET OVER IT. Period. Not deal with it. Not cope with it - since we all know what they really would like to do as far as "dealing" with it or "coping" with it - GET OVER IT. And I think we all know they will refuse to do so. Which is unfortunate indeed.

[RBInMaine]

6. AP is the Fake Noise Network in print. It should read, "The Nuts Have Taken Over The Asylum Again."

[blkmusclmachine]

10. The Republican "Health Care" motto:

"If you get sick,

DIE QUICK !!!"

[LW1977]

11. Hopefully

Hopefully when people in red states start liking it, the teabaggers will stfu and move on, or they can continue to bash it and lose all credibility.

[calimary]

14. Welcome to DU, LW1977!

Good to have you with us! I hope that's true, but I don't have a whole lot of faith in the bagger states. They're feeling threatened and backed into a corner because the world they believe in, and the "reality" they believe in, is repeatedly not able to stand up to these weird things called FACTS.

The world they believe in, the "America" they want "back" - is a fiction. They learned all they think they need to know or remember from "Leave it to Beaver" and "Father Knows Best" and "Ozzie and Harriet." And those were fucking SITCOMS! They were MADE UP! They were INVENTIONS! OF FICTION! They were NOT real. And they didn't reflect the reality of the time. Things weren't perfect with the perfect (white, king-of-the-castle) dad and the perfect (white, compliant, stay-at-home) mom and the perfect (white, fun-loving, innocent, and mostly-obedient) kids and the station wagon and the perfect (affordable nothing-bad-ever-happens-in-this) house with the perfect white picket fence. Where the weather was never a problem. Where there weren't any black people. And there really weren't any "Mexicans" either. Where everything was blissful and innocent and harmless and All-American-Perfect-Suburbia, and maybe there was an occasional Chinese guy who ran the local laundry or Chinese restaurant, but that was it. Everything else was white as driven snow. And upstanding and Protestant and ordered and nice. And nobody got drunk. Nobody beat their wives. No girls ever got raped. No girls even had to worry about going to work to support themselves or their fatherless children - because we all knew they were merely working toward their "MRS degree."

And CRIMINY! That is an illusion! That WAS an illusion even back then! But let's (literally) whitewash it all and decorate it in pastels and soft fuzzy focus, and that'll make it all better. And America can sleep peacefully at night. And see? It's on TV every night in prime time with all our favorite TV stars! And you know they couldn't say that or show that on TV if it weren't true!

[santamargarita]

17. Another right-wing circle jerk!

[Kablooie]

18. Obamacare is the new Benghazi.

Of course Benghazi won't go away either.

[politicaljunkie41910]

21. Can we expect a Conservative Summit every weekend from now until 2016?