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Imagine, the US is becoming more like a normal industrialized country. Those who don’t want this are largely free-riders that benefited under the ancien régime.
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Much as Social Security and Medicare disappeared as weapons, because the people liked them.
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Which Bill Kristol predicted back in the age of Hillarycare. Remember, a broken clock is right twice a day… and Kristol is very broken!)
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“…In short, Obamacare is working…”
Congress isn’t.
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I wonder if anybody in the Republican base will realize they’ve been lied to and manipulated these past few years as to what the Affordable Care Act is, how it functions, and who benefits. Like how Benghazi fizzled into an obvious right-wing set of lies that’s also completely disappeared from Fox News discourse.
Unlikely.
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I wish this were true in Colorado. We get a relentless torrent of anti-ACA ads for Cory Gardner. Senator Udall has said nothing defending the ACA (at least in ads), even though it’s working well here – our own exchange and expanded Medicaid, average rates down, etc. And Gardner won’t say what he’d do instead if “Obamacare” were to be repealed.
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Crying “wolf” seems to be all the GOPers have.
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With Obamacare gone, all they have left is personal attacks on Obama, Reid, and Pelosi as Worst.EVER, and on the Economy as Worst.EVER.
Without the whip of Obamacare, there will not be the dire urgency for “True Americans” to “rescue” the country from the evil clutches of Obama, Reid, and Pelosi.
This is a major existential problem for the GOP Leadership. They have relied for decades on urgent fear, hatemongering, and division, and this turn of events goes directly at their foundation.
Not to mention the fact that Women woke up to their GOP abusers in 2012, and handed Obama a lopsided 55-44% win among Women, and the GOP has done nothing to right itself with Women.
If the GOP cannot achieve full screaming turnout by the Patriotic Angry Old White Guys, how are they going to win anything anymore?
It couldn’t have happened to nicer guys.
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Better yet, I think the public has become much more aware of how the GOP just makes stories up about how everything is broken…Social Security… the post office…etc…solely for political purposes.
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How about making this a weapon for our side? The GOP went to great lengths to stop this act because they knew it would be very popular, sooner rather than later. So run on keeping it and making it better, Dems.
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“Ensuring that people with preexisting conditions have access to coverage has long been a popular policy, and one where there is bipartisan agreement.”
That must be why the Republicans passed laws ensuring that when they controlled Congress and the White House and have passed such laws in the states they control, right?
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The GOP will never stop hating Obamacare with all the fury of a thousand suns… right up until the moment that hate stops being useful.
Then within ten seconds, they’ll have rebranded Obamacare as Gippercare, and themselves as the only people standing between it and the dastardly Democrats who want to destroy it.
Obamacare is currently saving me over $500 a month on my insurance premiums (I am self-employed). Some Republican want to explain why that’s a bad thing?
If only that were true. Maybe it is, but I haven’t seen any evidence for it. If I am mistaken (it happens) I would welcome anyone to post such evidence.
I agree with this. And I think the best way for them to do this is to find and highlight success stories of people who have been greatly helped by Obamacare. I know there are many out there.
Whether the Dems have the courage to go there is an entirely other matter, though.
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Will require some fancy footwork on their part, now that, thanks to their efforts, the name ‘Obamacare’ has stuck.
Wow, an entire campaign based on lies has fallen apart. I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you.
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Butbutbut, REPEAL EVERY WORD!!!
