Posted on 03/15/2013 5:52:54 PM PDT by Nachum
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) warned his Republican counterpart on Friday that the GOP will have no hope of finding bipartisan agreement on any issue if it continues to insist on repealing the 2010 healthcare law. "If we want to do something in a bipartisan fashion, if we want to get to an end here, we ought to stop pretending that we´re going to repeal the Affordable Care Act," Hoyer told Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.). "We had an election about that. We won. The president won." Hoyer´s comment
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He’s licking his chops for Nov 2014.
The regime is converting the (successful) Obama campaign machine to attack the midterm elections.
They were way overconfident in 2010 and got ambushed.
Doesn’t look like we can do that twice.
I found this from the graveyard of favorite protests. Where are the “folks” now? This is more than the old. God bless them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qre7DzEtxyc
Sorry an ad always shows up.
It would appear the liberals don't like it when the shoe is on the other foot, while they like to dish it out, but, can't take it when it it handed to them in spades!!!!!
If Commiecare can't be repealed, what in the hell is the socialist worried about? Sounds to me like the more the American people don't like commiecare, the more pressure is being applied for the liberal socialist to repeal it, and that, the can never do, some of the liberal socialist have worked for more than fifty years to push this down the throats of the American people and that would be a great loss to them.
I think you are wrong.
And the even more cumbersome income tax code that continues to metastasize is a perfect counterpoint.
Washington DC is powered by attorneys and bureaucrats who feed on complexity.
If that is the only option, so may it be. Libs had best be careful what they wish for.
You are not calculating in the “gun grab” effect. The pain of continued high taxes, growing unemployment (real numbers), hungry followers, financial collapse and exposure that is coming for these traitors.
God help your people in the United States.
We’ll use the same tactic on gun control and lowering taxes.
Bastards
That would be logical...but our *leaders* don't have that kind of spine. Maybe Ted Cruz will fire back with this, though!
You could say it's bifurcated.
Sure, it's got a lot of cr*p in it but the overwhelming majority of taxpayers are never affected by much of it, and those who are affected by the more obscure parts know all about it and have their tax layers on the case 24/7.
ObamaKKKare is a tad different. First of all, it has a large number of very complex sections that apply to everybody, and a few relatively simple sections that apply to a favored few.
At this moment there are NO EXPERTS in ObamaKKKare ~ not in the agencies, not in the private sector, not among lawyers, not among its victims.
We are in a transition period where people are finding out what all the nonsense in the bill is about. For example, the Kaiser-Permanente group(s) imagined they could keep up with all this, but internally all of their specialists are running for the specialty areas and abandoning general practice. Used to be (like in December) Kaiser could make it all work together because their specialists all carried an extra burden of general practice ~ handy for patients/customers, and handy for doctors bored with their specialty.
Under ObamaKKKare it's not worth the hassle for Kaiser docs to try to keep up with that sort of practice ~ so they aren't ~ right now I"m looking through a list for a doctor whose native language is English. Looking grim.
..... Strangely .... I actually agree with Hoyer .... but not in the manner he is speaking. I believe that we can get rid of the infernal so called "Affordable Healthcare Law" by not actually getting rid of it. The process would be rather simple. Instead of using the "Repeal it NOW" argument ..... Just change the verbage on the debate and appeal to people on both sides of the isle. Instead of approaching the argument from a negative ... "All or Nothing" stance ... make it sound much more palatable and with a seemingly level headed common sense point of view.
.... Here is how I would word the argument .... "During this time of extreme financial stress .... It would not be prudent to allocate so much of a percentage of this country's economy towards the Affordable Healthcare Law .... and therefore, I feel that it would be best at this time to put the Healthcare Bill on the back-burner and shelf it until the country's financial footing becomes much more stable to the point that we could afford to institute it." (Of course the intention would be to never let the Bill see the light of day again ... but they don't need to know that}
.. ..... Of course .... I Don't know if that argument would actually work .... but at least it doesn't sound like the usual and constant "Grumpy Cat" drone of the GOP that is constantly portrayed in the MSM. And FYI .... I have used that same argument while talking with some on Hollywood's biggest elites .... and have actually gotten them to agree with me on that point LOL.
.... Any way ... that is my two cents worth .... you may now rejoin your weekend activities which are now already in progress ....
We'll stop this right now like you are demanding! (End sarcasm)
Well Mr. Hoyer - there is no hope of balancing the budget and reversing the damage the 'healthcare' law has done and will continue to do without - nor any reason to take you seriously in any discussion about balancing the budget if this is not considered. And bipartisanship with the methods used to ram this through and strongarm and intimidate your own members to get it passed - even threatening to just "deem" it to be passed when it did not have he votes on the floor? That sort of "bipartisanship", Mr. Hoyer.
“We had an election about that. We won. The president won.”
We did have an election about Obamacare, or at least Massachusetts did. They opted against by replacing Old Man Kennedy with All But Useless Man Brown. 2010 was about Obamacare, too, in part. You remember, when Pubs retook the House and Congress passed it anyway, though I’m still not sure how.
Which means they should redouble these efforts.
Hey, Spendy, how about you abandon your efforts to raise taxes?
"...we ought to stop pretending that we´re going to repeal the Affordable Care Act," Hoyer told Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.). "We had an election about that. We won. The president won."#1, bulls-, and #2, Zero also won saying he'd close GTMO, end the wars, bring home the troops, and revive the economy. He lied, and continues to lie.
Unfortunately, the election wasn't about Obamacare, the GOP running the only candidate who was unable to make it into the issue it should've been.
Had the election been about Obamacare, the Democrats would've lost.
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