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Vanity: "Why aren't the Republicans at least trying to help fix Obamacare?"

Posted on 11/04/2013 5:38:25 AM PST by Junk Silver

I keep hearing this Democrat talking point being trotted out, accusing the Republicans of harming their constituents by not doing everything in their power to "fix" the Affordable Health Care Act. This one must test well in focus-groups because it keeps getting repeated. I've yet to hear one Republican answer this coherently. Here's my suggestion for a response:

"If I saw a friend's house being looted would I do everything in my power to stop the looting, or would I walk over and try to negotiate with the looters? Would I call the police and try to get some neighbors to help out, or would I see if I could persuade the looters to delay their looting by a few months, and maybe not take all of the good silverware? To anyone who believes in the principals on which this country was founded the Affordable Care Act is nothing less than government-sanctioned looting of our health care system. The Republican party's only goal is to put a stop to it, not to help it proceed more smoothly."


TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: obamacare; repeal; replace; romneycare; romneycare4all; romneycare4ever; romneycare4you; talkingponts; troll
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To: MrB
They actually should get out in front of this “reasoning” and make a mockery of it before the left tries it.

Get that Pelosi "Big Gavel" picture with all the RAT leaders and put Republican faces on the bodies. Title "It's the Republicans' fault".


41 posted on 11/04/2013 6:07:46 AM PST by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: Junk Silver

Why polish a turd? Your answer is that WE want to REPEAL it not “fix” socialism (which can’t be fixed)!


42 posted on 11/04/2013 6:08:45 AM PST by JSDude1 (Defeat Hagan, elect a Constutional Conservative: Dr. Greg Brannon!)
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To: Junk Silver
I think it was Thomas Sowell who might've wrote recently, and I'm paraphrasing, "one does not replace a 'fire' with something..."

We need to put this fire out, and reassess where the country stands with healthcare. There is an opportunity here, for Republicans, if they're only smart enough to take advantage of it.

43 posted on 11/04/2013 6:11:14 AM PST by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: Mike Darancette

Nancy should have been making a phone call to her physician after that walk...

“yes... I’d like a referral to a proctologist... yes... foreign object... uh huh... yeah, large would be a good description...”


44 posted on 11/04/2013 6:12:12 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Junk Silver

Coz ya can’t fix stupid.


45 posted on 11/04/2013 6:13:56 AM PST by halfright (FAST & FURIOUS! DON'T ALLOW THEM TO DIVERT YOUR ATTENTION.)
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To: Junk Silver

This law was deemed passed in the house by the Botox demon from Kalifornika. If they can to buy insurance, what is next? An electric car? Requiring you live less that five miles from work and ride a bike every day? That is the way the dims think. Force people to do things against their will.


46 posted on 11/04/2013 6:16:49 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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To: Junk Silver

You can’t polish a turd.


47 posted on 11/04/2013 6:17:30 AM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: Junk Silver

I know this is an over the top analogy, but my answer to the headline is in another question: Why didn’t the jews in Nazi Germany try to fix Nazism?

It’s because it was rotten to the core. Some things don’t get fixed. They get replaced - and sometimes with nothing. What did most people replace their electric can opener with? A manual one. It works better and is cheaper.


48 posted on 11/04/2013 6:19:40 AM PST by cuban leaf
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To: Junk Silver

Man breaks into your house. Tries to shoot you but his gun jams. Do you help him clear the jam so he can proceed to shoot you or do you take the jammed gun and stick it up his a$$? I know what I would do.


49 posted on 11/04/2013 6:23:08 AM PST by lakecumberlandvet (Appeasement never works.)
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To: cuban leaf

cuban leaf you are way smarter than average


50 posted on 11/04/2013 6:26:36 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Junk Silver

Best thing they have going for ‘em is not a single one of them voted for this turkey.

Worst thing they could do would be laying their fingerprints on it now.


51 posted on 11/04/2013 6:27:47 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Junk Silver

So you’re saying we should help the looter? You didn’t think this through, did you?


52 posted on 11/04/2013 6:32:29 AM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: RJS1950

When you see a wounded animal that you know is going to die the only compassion you can give is to put it out of its misery


53 posted on 11/04/2013 6:33:16 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Junk Silver

ObamaCare is communism designed to takeover our healthcare. I don’t want it fixed! I want it gone!


54 posted on 11/04/2013 6:35:10 AM PST by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: Junk Silver
My older brother once sold used cars. He was an honest sort who made sure they were in reasonably good shape before he sold them, thus he never made much money at it.

He would refer to a wreck like ObamaCare as a "radiator cap job". That is, it was in such bad shape, you'd take off the radiator cap and drive a new car underneath it. He would take them on trade-in only because he had a close connection to a salvage yard which would come and get it. It amazed me how many people would willingly forfeit even $50 to $100 because they were unwilling to deal with the salvage yard directly.

55 posted on 11/04/2013 6:45:23 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Junk Silver

“Republicans can come along for the ride,but they’re gonna have to sit in the back of the bus.” They needs to stay as far away from this as possible. The “if you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan” statement needs to be shouted from the rooftops 24/7, and hung like a millstone around Democrats’ necks.I’ve been waiting for some RINO to speak out and call for bipartisan support for “fixing” this,which amazingly they haven’t done.


56 posted on 11/04/2013 6:45:37 AM PST by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: Junk Silver
At the time the ACA was forced down our throats polling show that upwards of 75% of Americans opposed obamacare. The rats forced it through anyway. One hundred percent of the GOP Congressional caucus opposed obamacare. The rats forced it through anyway. The rats:
1. Refused to allow floor debate on the bill.
2.They refused to allow amendments.
3.They refused to allow time for anyone to read the bill before the vote. Infact the bill hadn't even been printed before the vote and word is it wasn't even completely finished being written!

This baby is 100% a democrat catastrophe. The only possible solution is to scrap it and that's the ONLY acceptable Republican position. I hope the Tea Party is prepared to wage a holy war on any GOPer who does anything to help the rats out of this mess!

57 posted on 11/04/2013 6:47:14 AM PST by pgkdan
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To: Junk Silver

What’s that old adage, You can’t polish a Turd?


58 posted on 11/04/2013 6:55:14 AM PST by anoldafvet
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To: chris37
"Outside of Cruz and Lee, has the GOP ever explained anything coherently? Ever?

Reagan's explanation of "Eternal Life" would meet your requirement.

59 posted on 11/04/2013 6:58:45 AM PST by anoldafvet
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To: anoldafvet

Maybe.

Maybe not.

Reagan was a democrat, and he never really had anything in common with the GOP at all.

In fact, the GOP hated him and did not want him as their candidate.


60 posted on 11/04/2013 7:07:08 AM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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