Posted on 07/21/2013 5:34:11 AM PDT by Zakeet
As the reality of Obamacare emerges, a disastrous calamity imposed on the American people, even the most compliant members of the Obama fan club are beginning to panic. Three union presidents have sent Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi a scathing letter decrying Obamacare, showing just how out-of-control this law has become. This astonishing reversal has been underreported so far, except by the ever-vigilant Tom Gara in the Wall Street Journal.
The fact is that the crater of Obamacare is getting deeper, with sharper edges. The unions are first-tier political allies of President Obama and the Democratic Party, and it was surely their last resort to put their grievances with Obamacare in writing in the public sphere. A lot must have happened behind the scenes before they felt sufficiently frustrated with the Obama administration to take this step.
In a joint letter, James P. Hoffa of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Joseph Hansen of the UFCW and D. Taylor of UNITE-HERE state that Obamacare will “destroy the 40 hour work week that is the backbone of the American middle class” and “destroy the very health and wellbeing of our members along with millions of other hardworking Americans.” And they highlight their buyer’s remorse:
We have been strong supporters of the notion that all Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care. We have also been strong supporters of you. In campaign after campaign we have put boots on the ground, gone door-to-door to get out the vote, run phone banks and raised money to secure this vision. Now this vision has come back to haunt us.
You can feel their anxiety and boiling frustration coming through.
What does falling apart look like for Obamacare, if not this?
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I loved the comments to this story at the link. For this to be on a WaPo site, I was pleasantly surprised.
The silent majority that you so scathingly blame with self satisfaction are overwhelmingly voting in the one place they think their votes still count.
The gun store.
In a joint letter, James P. Hoffa of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Joseph Hansen of the UFCW and D. Taylor of UNITE-HERE state that Obamacare will "destroy the 40 hour work week that is the backbone of the American middle class" and "destroy the very health and wellbeing of our members along with millions of other hardworking Americans."IOW, what they want is legislation prohibiting part-time labor, and that Obamacare doesn't go far enough.
When ObamaCare collapses, the only ones who will still be supporting it will be Obama and the RINOs in Congress.
Yeah....and I have a friend who worked as a senior admin in a medical records company....laid off a while back....and can’t get a job ...even as an “Obamacare Navigator”...also voted for Obama twice.
Oh good!
Make sure you remind him frequently that ObamaCare is Bush's fault.
Apparently, what was hiding in 2,000 pages of the law is more than 20,000 pages of regulations.
Suffer...Fellow Americans. The LIBs have screwed us all, so suffer. Don’t keep quiet. Tell the LIBs and their brain-dead supporters what they have done. Ridicule them, laugh at them, get in their face (to follow nobama’s prompt) and shun them in your community. Stop being quiet. The LIBs are subhuman insects who destroy everything they touch. nobamacare is working as intended. When we are forced into “single payer” it will be exceptionally bad. These commie thugs require a dose of justice. Never let them forget.
This "doctor" gave his advice as well.
5. The politicians themselves are exempt from the rationed, cut-rate health care they imposed on the peasantry.
I’m one of the innocents and I can’t get a new job either. But my point was not that my friend is in a predicament; the point is that the wheels of Obamacare are grinding to a halt and the implementation is not going forward in some crucial ways.
I said this from the inception of this monstrosity. Early on, the ACA had a provision which required the IRS filing of purchases over $600, IIRC. Both parties agreed to repeal this item. IMO, this was a colossal mistake by the Republicans. The LIV would have felt the intrusion and pain of such a stupid law. It would have given the Repubs a platform to excoriate the entire law.
The stupid party will let the "bad" parts of Obamacare get repealed, while still retaining the "good" parts. Can you say partially pregnant? The Dems in the years to come will add on to the "revised" law to get us back to where we are and then some.
self satisfaction?
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