Mad_Machine76
Mad_Machine76's JournalUmmmm.........How do the Republicans repeal a law that doesn't exist?
Republicans Introduce "The Repeal of Obamacare Act"
http://networkedblogs.com/zCtbR?a=share
They're apparently planning to waste our country's time to pass a bill that, aside from being DOA in the Senate and WH anyway, wouldn't even be legally valid. They've referred to ACA as "Obamacare" that they think that that is the actual name of the law!
How on earth would any "token" candidate help Romney?
and make no mistake about it, that is exactly what they would be. They thought that it was a good idea to run a woman for VP last cycle because they believed (VERY wrongly) that disgruntled Hillary voters would flock to the GOP if they ran a woman. Well, that spectacularly backfired but it appears that they may well try again- whether it be with a woman, a Hispanic, or African-American. They are either cynical or naive to the extreme if they believe that members of a particular group will flock to the GOP just because they put them on a ticket somewhere REGARDLESS of how odious and/or misguided their policies are, proving again that they are all about style about substance. It's actually sort of ironic given that they are forever bemoaning "identity politics".
At what point
do Republicans, particularly those in the House, start "co-owning" the economy? Every time the jobs report come out and it's weaker than expected, the Republicans slam President Obama up and down about it and blame his policies for not creating jobs and the pundits get busy debating about whether or not the jobs report is "good" for President Obama or "bad" for President Obama but nobody seems to ever question the increasingly pervasive premise that the President is basically expected to "create jobs" with his bare hands and that if the private/public sector doesn't consistently deliver "good" numbers, it's his fault alone. There are probably a few things POTUS might be able to unilaterally tweak at the executive level to help the economy but, basically, his ability to create jobs pretty much rests on proposing legislative measures that might help create jobs.
So, what has President Obama done on that score? Well, of course, there was the dreaded and much maligned stimulus plan that he and a Democratic Congress was able to get passed (with the aid of 3 Republicans) which, while smaller than it ultimately needed to be, brought unemployment down and kept us from falling over the cliff. Second, he proposed the American Jobs Act late last year but Congress has failed to act on it for the past year. The House has refused to hold a vote on it and/or work out any kind of bipartisan compromise with President Obama and the Senate Republicans would eagerly filibuster it in the Senate so that it wouldn't even be brought up for a vote. Given that this is an election year, it is beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Republicans- still primarily obsessed with repealing ACA- will NOT do anything substantive for the rest of the year on jobs or anything else. Recent history, I think, will bear me out on this, unfortunately.
So, I ask again, WHEN are Republicans going to start "feeling the heat" about NOT doing anything about jobs? They ran in 2010 on focusing on jobs yet they spent last year madly trying to repeal ACA, gut Planned Parenthood, NPR, and pretty much any government and/or social safety net program they hate in the name of cutting the deficit. On top of all that, they decided to act out a nearly year-long drama over raising the debt ceiling, which appeared ultimately delivered a "kick to the gut" to the economy and, worse, resulted in the first ever downgrade of our country's credit rating, largely due to the dysfunctional mess that Congress has become due to rampant Republican Tea Party obstructionism. President Obama introduced the American Jobs Act in the fall of last year but nothing has been done on it since in the House, which the Republicans control. I would suggest that the Democratic-controlled Senate hold a vote on it but the Republicans will, of course, ensure that it never comes close to getting an up-or-down vote.
Is the GOP "economic sabotage" meme starting to get out there and, more importantly, is ANYBODY in the corporate media starting to notice? Are the American people starting to notice at all?
The basic message that President Obama needs to communicate to the electorate between now and November is that the economy was a mess when he took office and his policies helped make things better but the Republicans have repeatedly kneecapped every other effort to create jobs and reduce unemployment and have no viable plans to do differently if given total control of the country (again) in November, just more of the same old policies that got us into the previous mess even though the Republicans will then be saddled with the mess, so I'm not sure how this really works towards their long-term advantage but I guess I'm not entirely sure that matters to them either. Nothing seems to matter much to them other than power and their ability to implement their radical agenda.
Sickening
that some people consider it their "job" or "duty" to make people "hate" another person, group, etc. That is what I despise the most about fundies in particular. It's not just enough for them to hold their own personal beliefs (which, of course, they're entitled to no matter how repugnant they are) but they see it as their sacred duty to make sure that as many people as possible adopt their disgusting POV. I'm fairly certain that some of them probably even get a "thrill up their leg" bringing out bigotry and hatred of their targets.
Grover Norquist set the bar for the Republican candidate for POTUS this year
in terms of suggesting that all the Republican Party needs is somebody to sign the stuff that Paul Ryan and other Republican *luminaries* crank out of Congress. In that respect, Mitt Romney is clearly that guy. He clearly has no bold ideas, policies, or vision for his candidacy and will say or do whatever people in the party want him to do or say. He will eagerly be "President Autopen" if it means he gets to sit in the Oval Office. Other than just wanting to add being POTUS to his trophy case and he and Ann feeling that it's "his turn" to be POTUS, I really have no clue whatsoever why he's running for POTUS or what he'll bring to the country. I wouldn't ordinarily be worried about such a person running for POTUS except for the fact that approximately 30% of the population will vote for him for no other reason than the fact that he is not Barack Obama.
LOL +1
Yes they do. Almost like "the most liberal" Senator, Congressman, Governor, etc. I remember that Fox News awarded Kerry that particular title in 2004 and then Obama in 2008 in coverage that was almost identical.
Kind of hard to argue that he wasn't
He's tangled himself up again. The way I see it is that if people don't buy health insurance, they are essentially just paying "dues" to help keep the system operating for everybody else.
They made a good point
Santorum and Gingrich were the "red meat" ideological candidates. They would've lost by huge margins running against President Obama but they would have been at least consistently bad. However, despite my earlier reservations about Romney being the GOP's candidate (I thought that he would be able to be seen as an acceptably "moderate" candidate) I'm perfectly satisfied to have Mitt as their candidate. He is simply too compromised, both by his past record (i.e. Romneycare) and his need (and inability) to pander simultaneously to the indies and moderates he will need to win and the teabaggers he can't risk offending either. His campaign has become one ginormous gordian knot that he and the Republican Party has him tied up in and I rather doubt that he will be able to extricate himself from it in time to win in November.
Now that he claims that ACA imposes a tax
(albeit only those whom can afford but choose not to purchase insurance), he's fessed up to doing it himself in addition to looking confused and incompetent by stepping on his own campaign spokesperson. Look for the spokesperson to find himself unemployed very soon. After all, Romney loves firing people!!!
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