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Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)DissidentVoice
(813 posts)Are they willing?
Yes, without a doubt...as long as it doesn't hurt their corporato-fascist 1% power base.
Barack Obama is a keenly intelligent man. I'm sure he already knows the answer to his question.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)question out loud to which he doesn't know the answer.
DissidentVoice
(813 posts)I had a pastor who used to be a lawyer. No winning an argument with him (though he was a very nice person)!
What kills me is how the RW is always saying that Obama is wiping his arse with the Constitution, doesn't know/care about the Constitution, etc...when he's a lawyer whose expertise is in Constitutional Law!!!
libodem
(19,288 posts)Exceptional quotes!
Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)what would suggest to you that they aren't willing to hurt people just score political points?
Everything they do is to punish Americans for voting for Obama.
They publicly stated their only goal was to make sure Obama didn't get a second term.
It's not a question if they are really willing to hurt people just score political points,
it's a question of just how much pain they are willing to inflict on the citizens of the United States for not supporting their insanity.
William769
(55,124 posts)SunSeeker
(51,369 posts)The ads say this is the last best chance to repeal Obamacare. And of course it throws out lies that Obamacare will cost jobs and raise healthcare costs. The anti-ACA propaganda is getting pretty thick and desperate. The GOP knows once the ACA is fully implemented, people will realize the GOP has been lying to them about the ACA.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)our local paper and especially my sister believing that healthcare costs will be higher. It'll for sure be exciting to see what happens following implementation.
I just witnessed Rep. Lee's commercial on MSNBC spewing total lies on Obamacare. Also on TPM they have an article stating that Republicans like ACA over Obamacare.
WTF, are these people for-real???????
LittleGirl
(8,261 posts)Come on, as the leader of the Democratic Party, you are failing to fight this obstruction. I'm sick of the conservatives having the most VOCAL VOICES. There should be a campaign telling people how this mammoth legistlation works, what it means and how to navigate it. You sir have failed to do that. Time to step it up with commercials countering Cruz's and every thing the republicans are lying about. Why let them dictate the discussion?
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Uh.... this is it.
Dems all over say things like this and other useful gems.... but the media does not cover it so you never hear about it. Just look at the Sunday shows' line up ...dozens of conservatives...some proven to be abject failures and completely unreliable, and 3 or 4 liberals and 0-1 progressives. How is anyone supposed to hear what Dems have to say?
Of course the media HAS to cover what Obama says... and here it is...
LittleGirl
(8,261 posts)liberal N proud
(60,302 posts)Congress approved it, SCOTUS confirmed it and the 2012 election affirmed it, who do the republicans think they are scoring points with?
It sure as hell isn't the American people!
lark
(23,003 posts)1%ers don't want to spend money on anything that doesn't personally enrich them, so are anti-ACA.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)if the health care law turns out to be a success.
liberal N proud
(60,302 posts)You are most likely correct.
randr
(12,408 posts)Call the assholes out on it. Call them traitors!
Moejo31
(5 posts)I voted for Obama twice
& now that it passed my little brother can now get health insurance ..
The only thing I'm kinda scratching my head is why is congress not under obamacare is that true ?
gopiscrap
(23,674 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)See the last paragraph here:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/28thamendment.asp
Moejo31
(5 posts)Thank you everyone for the welcome
I've been reading this website for along time .
Moejo31
(5 posts)Gov mike h. Twitter account
Because did his whole show about saying the complete opposite
Go figure
calimary
(80,699 posts)Glad you're here! I voted for Obama twice, too, and am SO glad to have the Affordable Care Act! (I refuse to call it "Obamacare," because I don't believe in repeating and giving further life and validation to the bad guys' slogans.)
It means that both the men in my life, who had been turned down for preexisting conditions, now have coverage.
It means that the kid who drums in my son's band, who is a child cancer survivor, remains covered under his parents' insurance policies til he's 26 - and has a chance to get on his feet with his own career.
It means I actually got a $90 refund check from my insurance carrier (with a lot of fanfare, of course, a glowing letter breaking its collective arms patting itself on the back for being so wonderful) - ONLY BECAUSE THE ACA FORCED THEM TO DO IT. NO WAY did they do that out of the "goodness of their hearts"!!!! They did it because one of the provisions in the ACA mandates that at least 80% of the premiums you pay MUST apply directly to YOUR COVERAGE.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/07/18/refund-your-health-insurance-company-thank-affordable-care-act
And those are just the parts of the ACA that affect me personally. There are other provisions that are just as helpful and necessary, and a blessing if you really wanna know, that affect other people.
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)these people should not be in the of the Government. They should be interred in an institution for the psychotically stupid.
calimary
(80,699 posts)Put the damn bad guys on the defensive. Call it what it is - the shit they're doing. They want to leave YOU out in the cold. They don't want to help you. Their attitude is "Screw You! Tough shit. Go away and don't bother me." Also known as IGMFU ("I Got Mine, F-U."
Hang it around their necks like a millstone.
Lancero
(2,980 posts)For him as well.
Remember how he was trying to sell the idea of bombing Syria?
Los Angeles
(4 posts)They won't stop until they got a big lost in Congress. It's our duty make that happen.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)The Wizard
(12,482 posts)can a relative handful of radical extremists hold the vast majority hostage. They're kind of like the extremists who flew hijacked planes into the World Trade Center, willing to die for some imaginary purpose. And they don't care who gets killed in the process. And for the most part, they're religious fanatics too.
So the difference between the Teabilly Party and the Taliban is...............
The Teabilly Party is better funded and has a world class propaganda operation.
gordianot
(15,226 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(8,994 posts)Maybe he's found his mojo, AGAIN.
DissidentVoice
(813 posts)Cha
(295,912 posts)means hurting Obama in the process.
And, now the American people will be wondering if they're really willing to go all the way with this.
Perfect way to set it up. Thanks EarlG.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Frikken repukes.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Grateful for Hope
(39,320 posts)K&R!
dotymed
(5,610 posts)that is an accurate portrayal of what the GOP is doing to your underwhelming (but better than nothing) ACA.
Sadly, you prove yourself to be a corporatist willing to economically destroy Americans with your choices for our financial leaders.
I really do not know which is better anymore, we are a fascist nation and you have played a large role... the realization is definitely scary.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Kennah
(14,115 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)If Obama would have put 1/1,000 of the effort into Health Care as he did on trying to nuke Syria, things might be better for a lot of the little people who sent him to DC ... Oh, well, he has priorities, I suppose ...
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)Obama Haters make up their own facts as they type!
Skittles
(152,964 posts)they have proven over and over again they are willing to hurt people to score political points
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)for any state agency to offer assistance or information about ACA to it citizens.!
Geeez,,,,,,Obama Care has got the GOP squirming big time!
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)tofuandbeer
(1,314 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)th elimination of the preexisting condition clause alone is worth it's weight in Platinum, not to mention parents being able to keep their kids on till they're 26
delrem
(9,688 posts)I think this spine should have been exercised earlier, so I grind my teeth when I say that yes, I like it when it happens.
Pres. Obama has never even approximately spent his political capital on the "left".
From the start Pres. Obama has pandered to a non-existent "bipartisan government".
Hopefully Pres. Obama continues exercising that spine.