Posted on 10/22/2013 3:58:13 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
“[I] mean, Mitch McConnell’s line is now, ‘Oh, just let — Obamacare is going to be so self-evidently destructive that when we win our spectacular victory in the Senate election and the next presidential election, we will be able to repeal it and roll it back.’ When do the Republicans ever do that?
Those Carter-era innovations like the entirely useless federal Department of Education, the federal Energy Department, even the National Endowment of the Arts — when for decades it has been mocked for giving public monies to crucifixes floating in urine, homoerotic photography involving bullwhips attractively positioned — none of those nickel and dime things have the Republican Party succeeded in rolling back. What are the odds that when this thing implodes, the Republicans are going to be making a tremendous case for genuine free choice in health care that Obamacare will be repealed?
“I don’t see that"
"I think the danger here, Joe, once it’s a disaster, is people will — the government for one always doubles down on, for start, always doubles down on disasters. If it’s a disaster, they’ll say we need more government interference,” he continued. “We need a tighter government system. We need more government control. We need government-owned hospitals. We need government-employed doctors. We need government-employed nurses.”
“Is it more likely that they say that, or that the Mitch McConnell line, ‘Well Obamacare has imploded, so we can set up a proper private health care system in the rubble,’ is going to work?” Steyn said. “I think that is way too complacent. Republicans have been complacent about the Department of Education, the National Endowment of the Arts and everything else for decades and that’s why they haven’t reversed any of them. I mean, Joe, where do you go on this?
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People in KY wouldn’t vote for Lincoln, but they seem to think McC represents them.
Maybe we should blame AL for McC; that’s where he comes from but never mentions its.
-——Obamacare will never be repealed. Please, someone tell me I am wrong.-——
Here is your answer....name one, just one federal program this massive that has been repealed or even defunded in the last 50 years...
The totally wrong people get elected to office.
I really don’t want the GOP to pick my next president.
I believe they will make sure Hillary wins.
You're wrong. It will likely be replaced by single payer sometime in the next few decades.
(holding ears)La, la, la, la, la...
Or maybe you honestly think the American People would implode if they knew how vicious, how coldly self-seeking and cynical their leadership is -- and here I specifically reference the E-GOP.
They sold out back in 2007 on health care because S&P 500 CEO's were on their backs day and night, raving and caving about their employee healthcare premiums.
Obamacare is the FIX, not the "problem". Of course the E-GOP isn't going to fix the FIX !
“No reason to believe GOP will ever repeal Obamacare”
Yup. Pretty much the same thing on the balanced budget. You might remember when the gop was out of power way back when, they talked a lot about a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. Then they ended up in power. Both houses of Congress and the Presidency.
And so ended gop talk of a balanced budget amendment.
- A more apt title
Gee, Chucky Schumer told a nasty tale about someone he hates and now YOU choose to believe schmucky Chucky?
But, hey, you’re not alone.
Anthony Weiner trusted Schumer, too.
Sometimes I wonder what the Obama-kiddies will do once they figure out that Obama (and Schumer) “bought” their votes with money stolen from those kids’ own futures...
It could be a GOP landslide in 2016!
Well gee, Mark, then what can be done? Is there any alternative left? Is there anything you can do, in particular, with your bully pulpit, to change things for the better? Any information you can get out to the public, since you love America so much?
Think hard.
Stick it up your Obama. If you didn’t hear the show (and Mark Levin certainly is ripping McConnell, and rightly so) and you don’t think McConnell is a sellout, you are not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
But hey, keep believing the McCains and McConnells, the Lindsey Grahams and the Karl Roves.
Or you can wake up like the rest of us.
Chucky Schmucky wasn't lying. See for yourself. Or do your own research. McConnell is a sellout.
"Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell has floated a proposal for a couple years now as a last-chance way to avert a crisis and allow the president to raise the debt ceiling without congressional approval, with Congress having the ability to strip that authority with a two-thirds veto — and that’s sort of what the bill to be voted on tonight provides for (see pages 24 ff. of the bill)."
Your timeline is too short.
The sooner you realize the GOP is selling us out, the better off you will be.
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Mark Steyn: No reason to believe GOP will ever repeal Obamacare , Talisker wrote:
Mark Steyn: No reason to believe GOP will ever repeal Obamacare
Well gee, Mark, then what can be done? Is there any alternative left? Is there anything you can do, in particular, with your bully pulpit, to change things for the better? Any information you can get out to the public, since you love America so much?
Think hard.
“Not with a bang but a whimper”
In 7th grade in a Catholic grammar school in the 40’s this nun reflected on GK Chesterton’s observation. Her comment went over my head at the time and she had as much of a chance or the means to make the changes needed as Stein does. All they can do is make you aware of the reality. Nothing gets changed by whimpering.
He’s right.
If they wanted to stop it, they would.
Dream on they will want to use this information for the same reasons they used captured NAZI and Japanese doctors that practiced the most evil of medical experiments.
Mark is right on except he seems to be under the illusion that the GOPe was ever opposed to government control of health care.
Nope, can't do that, wouldn't be prudent.
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