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PBS Dem Pundit Mark Shields: If Obamacare Fails, 'This Is The End...of Liberal Government'
NewsBusters ^ | November 16, 2013 | Tim Graham

Posted on 11/16/2013 8:47:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Barack Obama being clear that his team messed up Obamacare made it hard for liberal PBS NewsHour pundit Mark Shields to try Democrat Happy Talk.

Instead, Shields joined the liberal gloomfest: “If this goes down, if the Obama -- if health care, the Affordable Care Act is deemed a failure, this is the end -- I really mean it -- of liberal government.” He even acknowledged Obama lied about Keeping Your Plan:

MARK SHIELDS: That is -- wasn't a true statement. And you're driven to one of two conclusions. Either the president was almost -- almost negligently uncurious in not asking about what the answer was, or he made the choice to trade his considerable reputation and record of integrity for short-term political gain. That's why they had to come and that's why there was such consternation in the ranks.

JUDY WOODRUFF: How do you explain it, David, what happened, with the president acknowledging yesterday that he wasn't on top of it?

DAVID BROOKS: Yes, I think it is politics. They knew that they -- getting this thing passed -- we were there -- it was hard. And so they were pulling out every political stop in the book. And a lot of those political stops have made it harder now. The first early one was, they were really late in issuing the regulations because they didn't want them to come out during the campaign so Romney could attack them.

As a result, the whole implementation got pushed back, and that's part of the reason the Web site is such a mess. And then they made this political calculation. Then they made the -- that they weren't going to tell you there will be losers here. And they made the political calculation....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2014; aca; democrats; liberals; obama; obamacare; theend
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To: ogen hal

Liberal government will not end until President Palin is sworn in.


61 posted on 11/16/2013 10:08:22 PM PST by excopconservative
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To: Jet Jaguar

Bumping for later.


62 posted on 11/16/2013 10:11:07 PM PST by prisoner6 ( FREEDOM)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"They are rooting for failure. I mean, it's so transparent, and so obvious, whether it's Darrell Issa, whether it's Reince Priebus, the chairman. They're just cheering for failure. There's not a sense of what we can do to make this work, or this isn't going to work, but we're going to come up with something better. There just isn't."

With all of their effort to shift the blame, the truth is the Democrats own Obamacare. Republicans have never wanted it and never voted for it. Because of Obamacare's numerous flaws, Republicans have had 37 floor votes to improve Obamacare by taking out its dangerous parts. As a result, their efforts were rejected by the Democrats in the Senate. Knowing the disaster that Obamacare was, the Republicans sent up more bills to fully and partially repeal, defund, or dismantle Obamacare's worst parts. To say they have not worked to fix it, is fantasy. The truth is, they have always wanted no part of it.

Republican persistence has even been successful: 7 different bills have been signed into law that directly repeal or rescind funding from at least 8 different Obamacare provisions.

However, the Democrat-controlled Senate and the Obama Regime has never ever worked with the Republicans and even shut down the government to stonewall any effort at compromise and to hurt Republicans in the 2014 election cycle.

Because the Democrats have used Obamacare as a political battering ram to hurt Republican, they only have themselves to blame if Republicans let them swing in the wind with the Albatross Obamacare around their necks.

For a good summery of Republican efforts to fix Obamacare go here:

63 posted on 11/16/2013 10:15:50 PM PST by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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These recurring admissions illustrate the fraud and fallacy of this regime’s agenda.


64 posted on 11/16/2013 10:20:31 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Jet Jaguar

These Marxist DemonRATs have also learned another thing from their Communist mentors. If you want to make a lie the truth, say the same lie over and over again. Notice, they do not even change the wording. They are just as demonic as their Marxist forefathers.


65 posted on 11/16/2013 10:24:51 PM PST by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

OH PUHLEEZE......49% of people DON”T PAY ANY TAXES and a LOT of them get MONEY BACK......do you think the FREELOADERS are going to give that up???? HELL NO.....they want MORE and MORE of OUR money!!!


66 posted on 11/16/2013 10:36:33 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Jet Jaguar
THAT needs to be put on EVERY thread!!!!

Democrats LIE....it's what they do.

67 posted on 11/16/2013 10:38:44 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: BenLurkin
The end of Statism?

I find myself wondering at the cost of how many lives?

I'm also wondering what the damage is that Obama has inflicted on the US as measured in Hiroshima bombings(?)

68 posted on 11/16/2013 10:39:55 PM PST by The Duke ("Forgiveness is between them and God, it's my job to arrange the meeting.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reminds me of that old one, “Communism failed because we didnt have the right people in charge”...or something like that


69 posted on 11/16/2013 11:08:10 PM PST by jughandle
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To: BenLurkin

“As Neil Young (I think) said, “Rust never sleeps.””

Akchewally, that has its source in the Navy.


70 posted on 11/16/2013 11:13:34 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: VerySadAmerican

Natural law and virtue have a way of surviving and thriving. The GOP establishment don’t seem any more acquainted with these healthy philosophies than do the liberals and the GOPe seems most unwilling to be in the majority and do an honest day’s work like so many food stampers


71 posted on 11/16/2013 11:23:55 PM PST by stanne
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To: Jet Jaguar
All those statements by Democrat legislators should be repeated ad nauseum in political commercials for next year's elections.

The lying Democratic party deserves to be slaughtered in the 2014 midterms.

72 posted on 11/16/2013 11:29:01 PM PST by sargon (I don't like the sound of these here Boncentration Bamps!)
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To: Jet Jaguar

D@mn good work citing those quotes. Well done.


73 posted on 11/16/2013 11:33:10 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: GeronL
....Is Schadenfreude overload covered under Obamacare?............../snicker
74 posted on 11/16/2013 11:35:50 PM PST by spokeshave (Obamacare is planned, just like the planned famine by the Russians to eliminate the Ukrainians.)
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To: spokeshave
DING ...Ding...ding...incoming tag line.....

OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-(

75 posted on 11/16/2013 11:44:55 PM PST by spokeshave (OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
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To: Jet Jaguar

Thanks for posting this list of quotes.


76 posted on 11/16/2013 11:49:35 PM PST by Cap Huff
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To: Taxman

The revenge of the Wacko Birds! they put their eggs into the wrong basket.


78 posted on 11/17/2013 12:16:08 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Islander2
If Mark (Maxi) Shields is worried, I’m happy.

Yes. When that tingle down his leg turns warm, wet, and smelly!

79 posted on 11/17/2013 12:30:05 AM PST by cynwoody
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Most of that article was as expected. The one part that bothered me and should bother all of us is the absolute faith the left has (and claims we’re 100% against) in ‘social justice’. I for one don’t want to see people starving in the streets. I don’t want homeless children wandering around like it’s some 3rd world country. Our solutions are different. We also differ in just how far it goes. To the left everything is a right. Everything. We find owning a cell phone to be a luxury, not a right. They think everyone has a right to anything that crosses their mind.
There are otherwise rational people out there who believe every last thing said about us. To many who vote lib we are no better than slave owners. The one thing the right has lost (even in years we’ve won), probably since Reagan is the message war.
Kinda off topic but libs always moan about the end of their product because they’re always looking for sympathy and always working their message.


80 posted on 11/17/2013 12:47:17 AM PST by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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