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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

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1 posted on 11/16/2013 8:47:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The end of Statism?

Too good to be true.


2 posted on 11/16/2013 8:48:56 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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3 posted on 11/16/2013 8:50:31 PM PST by narses (... unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Then, by all means, we should do everything in our power to ensure that O[phony]bamacare fails!


4 posted on 11/16/2013 8:51:01 PM PST by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I. HOPE. HE. FAILS.

This country is too good for liberal mediocrity.

It’s WE. THE. PEOPLE.

Not you snot-nosed, arrogant know-it-all theorists in D.C.


5 posted on 11/16/2013 8:52:43 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Anything we can do to help! Anything!


6 posted on 11/16/2013 8:53:55 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not if the GOPe has anything to say about it.


7 posted on 11/16/2013 8:54:14 PM PST by stanne
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah, and the final scene of Friday the 13th was the end of Jason.


8 posted on 11/16/2013 8:54:31 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

SEN. HARRY REID (D-Nev.): “In fact, one of our core principles is that if you like the health care you have, you can keep it.” (Sen. Reid, Congressional Record, S.8642, 8/3/09)

SEN. RICHARD DURBIN: “We believe — and we stand by this — if you like your current health insurance plan, you will be able to keep it, plain and simple, straightforward.” (Sen. Durbin, Congressional Record, S.6401, 6/10/09)

SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY): “If you like your insurance, you keep it.” (U.S. Senate, Finance Committee, Bill Mark-Up, 9/29/09)

SEN. PATTY MURRAY (D-Wash.): “Again, if you like what you have, you will be able to keep it. Let me say this again: If you like what you have, when our legislation is passed and signed by the President, you will be able to keep it.” (Sen. Murray, Congressional Record, S.6400, 6/10/09)

SEN. MAX BAUCUS (D-Mont.): “That is why one of the central promises of health care reform has been and is: If you like what you have, you can keep it. That is critically important. If a person has a plan, and he or she likes it, he or she can keep it.” (Sen. Baucus, Congressional Record, S.7676, 9/29/10)

SEN. TOM HARKIN (D-Iowa): “One of the things we put in the health care bill when we designed it was the protection for consumers to keep the plan they have if they like it; thus, the term ‘grandfathered plans.’ If you have a plan you like — existing policies — you can keep them. … we said, if you like a plan, you get to keep it, and you can grandfather it in.” (Sen. Harkin, Congressional Record, S.7675-6, 9/29/10)

THEN-REP. TAMMY BALDWIN (D-Wis.): “Under the bill, if you like the insurance you have now, you may keep it and it will improve.” (Rep. Baldwin, Press Release, 3/18/10)

SEN. MARK BEGICH (D-Alaska): “If you got a doctor now, you got a medical professional you want, you get to keep that. If you have an insurance program or a health care policy you want of ideas, make sure you keep it. That you can keep who you want.” (Sen. Begich, Townhall Event, 7/27/09)

SEN. MICHAEL BENNET (D-Colo.): “We should begin with a basic principle: if you have coverage and you like it, you can keep it. If you have your doctor, and you like him or her, you should be able to keep them as well. We will not take that choice away from you.” (Sen. Bennet, Press Release, 6/11/09)

SEN. BARBARA BOXER (D-Calif.): “So we want people to be able to keep the health care they have. And the answer to that is choice of plans. And in the exchange, we’re going to have lots of different plans, and people will be able to keep the health care coverage they need and they want.” (Sen. Boxer, Press Release, 2/8/11)

SEN. SHERROD BROWN (D-Ohio): “Our bill says if you have health insurance and you like it, you can keep it…”(Sen. Brown, Congressional Record, S.12612, 12/7/09)

SEN. BEN CARDIN (D-Md.): “For the people of Maryland, this bill will provide a rational way in which they can maintain their existing coverage…” (Sen. Cardin, Congressional Record, S.13798, 12/23/09)

SEN. BOB CASEY (D-Pa.): “I also believe this legislation and the bill we are going to send to President Obama this fall will also have secure choices. If you like what you have, you like the plan you have, you can keep it. It is not going to change.” (Sen. Casey, Congressional Record, S.8070, 7/24/09)

SEN. KAY HAGAN (D-N.C.): ‘People who have insurance they’re happy with can keep it’ “We need to support the private insurance industry so that people who have insurance they’re happy with can keep it while also providing a backstop option for people without access to affordable coverage.” (“Republicans Vent As Other Compromise Plans Get Aired,” National Journal’s Congress Daily, 6/18/09)

SEN. MARY LANDRIEU (D-La.): “If you like the insurance that you have, you’ll be able to keep it.” (MSNBC’s Hardball, 12/16/09)

SEN. PAT LEAHY (D-Vt.): “[I]f you like the insurance you now have, keep the insurance you have.” (CNN’s “Newsroom,” 10/22/09)

SEN. BOB MENENDEZ (D-N.J.): “If you like what you have, you get to keep it” “Menendez is a member of the Senate Finance Committee, which is expected to release a bill later this week. He stressed that consumers who are satisfied with their plans won’t have to change. ‘If you like what you have, you get to keep it,’ he said.” (“Health Care Plan Would Help N.J., Menendez Says,” The Record, 6/19/09)

SEN. JEFF MERKLEY (D-Oreg.): “[E]nsuring that those who like their insurance get to keep it” “The HELP Committee bill sets forward a historic plan that will, for the first time in American history, give every American access to affordable health coverage, reduce costs, and increase choice, while ensuring that those who like their insurance get to keep it.” (Sen. Merkley, Press Release, 7/15/09)

SEN. BARBARA MIKULSKI (D-Md.): “It means that if you like the insurance you have now, you can keep it.” (Sen. Mikulski, Press Release, 12/24/09)

SEN. JAY ROCKEFELLER (D-W.Va.): “I want people to know, the President’s promise that if you like the coverage you have today you can keep it is a pledge we intend to keep.” (U.S. Senate, Finance Committee, Hearing, 9/23/09)

SEN. JACK REED (D-R.I.): “If you like the insurance you have, you can choose to keep it.” (Sen. Reed, Town Hall Event, 6/25/09)

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-Vt.): “‘If you have coverage you like, you can keep it,’ says Sen. Sanders.” (“Sick And Wrong,” Rolling Stone, 4/5/10)

SEN. JEANNE SHAHEEN (D-N.H.): ‘if you have health coverage that you like, you get to keep it’ “My understanding … is that … if you have health coverage that you like you can keep it. As I said, you may have missed my remarks at the beginning of the call, but one of the things I that I said as a requirement that I have for supporting a bill is that if you have health coverage that you like you should be able to keep that. …under every scenario that I’ve seen, if you have health coverage that you like, you get to keep it.” (Sen. Shaheen, “Health Care Questions From Across New Hampshire,” Accessed 11/13/13)

SEN. DEBBIE STABENOW (D-Mich.): “As someone who has a large number of large employers in my state, one of the things I appreciate about the chairman’s mark is — is the grandfathering provisions, the fact that the people in my state, 60 percent of whom have insurance, are going to be able to keep it. And Mr. Chairman, I appreciate that. That’s a strong commitment. It’s clear in the bill … I appreciate the strong commitment on your part and the president to make sure that if you have your insurance you can keep it. That’s the bottom line for me.” (U.S. Senate, Finance Committee, Bill Mark-Up, 9/24/09)

SEN. JON TESTER (D-Mont.): “‘If you like your coverage, you’ll be able to keep it,’ Tester said, adding that if Medicare changes, it will only become stronger”. (“Tester In Baker To Discuss Health Care,” The Fallon County Times, 11/20/09)

SEN. TOM UDALL (D-N.Mex.): “Some worried reform would alter their current coverage. It won’t. If you like your current plan, you can keep it.” (“What I Learned: About Health Care Reform This Summer, By Your Lawmakers In Congress,” Albuquerque Journal, 9/8/09)

SEN. SHELDON WHITEHOUSE (D-R.I.): “…it honors President Obama’s programs and the promise of all of the Presidential candidates that if you like the plan you have, you get to keep it. You are not forced out of anything.”(Sen. Whitehouse, Congressional Record, S.8668, 8/3/09)


9 posted on 11/16/2013 8:54:53 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Half of the country wants free fairy skittles, and they always will, right to the end. See Detroit.

It would take a harsher stick across the brow than OCare failure to change the LIV mind.

Besides, the collectivists run the schools and universities.


10 posted on 11/16/2013 8:55:05 PM PST by lurk
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
the president was almost -- almost negligently uncurious in not asking about what the answer was

Just say it: "he lied."

That's turning out to be harder than getting LBJ to say "Negro" instead of "nigra."

11 posted on 11/16/2013 8:55:17 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Think of Obamacare as Social Security or Medicare on fast-forward - they sound good, seem to work in the short run, but are ultimately unsustainable.

The main difference is that the latter are taking a couple of generations to unwind; Obamacare is falling apart in real time. And that’s the genius of Obama - he’s demonstrated the folly of liberal fantasies in a way that even some in the lo-info crowd can understand.


12 posted on 11/16/2013 8:55:51 PM PST by Stosh
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To: BenLurkin

Liberalism is like rust. It will always be there eating away at the foundation, and integrity of this country. All we can do it cut it out where we can, and repair the damage caused. But it is human nature to be lazy, so it will always be there looking for its chance to take hold.


13 posted on 11/16/2013 8:56:27 PM PST by Yogafist
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s called a F<>^€ Lie.

Impeach the knob


14 posted on 11/16/2013 8:56:34 PM PST by Deetes (God Bless the Troops)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s called a F<>^€ Lie.

Impeach the knob


15 posted on 11/16/2013 8:56:35 PM PST by Deetes (God Bless the Troops)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
'This Is The End...of Liberal Government'

This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end.

16 posted on 11/16/2013 8:59:33 PM PST by MUDDOG
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“WHEN 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.”

...there, fixed it for him

This bill, the horrific bumbling of the Website and Obama being reelected has turned into about the best thing that Conservatives could ever ask for, really.

...Now Romney didnt repeal it - meaning we are spared years of “Repubs took your health care away”

...Now Obama has been exposed for all to see as pure incompetent over this and the endless scandals which have broken since reelection

...Now “Big Government can do this” has people so turned off of them they are mocking Obamacare at football games

...Now not only will they not be able to say “look, Obamacare works but it left some holes so we need full control thru a single-payer”, they are likely to see Obamacare fold completely and the market go even further free-market then was possible prior to this debacle

...Now Dems have lost/are losing whatever credibility they built up after the Bush years; squandering it on an Utopian Fantasy that has made them a laughing stock

It sure seems as though (or at least I like to think, at least) God is up there looking down on us shaking his head, angry we didn’t just trust in his plans all along.


17 posted on 11/16/2013 9:00:55 PM PST by Nahhh I Dont Think So
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes, I think it is politics. They knew that they — getting this thing passed — <<

NANCY!!.....Want to read it now???


18 posted on 11/16/2013 9:00:58 PM PST by M-cubed
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To: Nahhh I Dont Think So

the end of liberal government?

we all wish but its not true at all


19 posted on 11/16/2013 9:01:30 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Exquisite!


20 posted on 11/16/2013 9:02:44 PM PST by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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