Posted on 11/17/2013 2:47:07 AM PST by IbJensen
Jeanne Shaheen, Carol Shea-Porter and Annie Kuster owe New Hampshire an explanation. They backed the disaster that is Obamacare from the very beginning. Last week, with the law falling to pieces, they reiterated their strong support. The Titanic is sinking and they are praising its craftsmanship.
Can they really believe the lame defenses they are giving? Can they really expect the public to believe them?
On Thursday, after President Obama decreed that insurers would not be held to the law's coverage mandates, Kuster and Shea-Porter issued statements in response. Kuster's was emailed at 2:02 p.m. In it, she said she still supported the law because "we cannot go back to the days when insurance companies were free to deny coverage to those with preexisting conditions or drop people from their plans just because they get sick. I will continue to work with anybody who is serious about making this law work and ensuring that Granite Staters have access to the quality, affordable care they deserve."
Shea-Porter's statement was issued exactly 10 minutes after Kuster's. In it, Shea-Porter said, "we cannot go back to the days when health insurance companies could deny men and women coverage due to a preexisting condition, or cancel a person's policy when they need it most. I'll continue working to increase insurance options so everyone in New Hampshire has access to quality, affordable healthcare."
Almost identical statements, issued minutes apart. Do they think we are not paying attention? Do they think they can, even now, just spout White-House approved talking points and fool the people into thinking they are representing us?
Shaheen, Shea-Porter and Kuster are representing the Democratic Party, not the people of New Hampshire. Their statements on Obamacare always have reflected party-approved talking points.
Now they follow the White House's lead in pretending that the pain inflicted upon America by this law comes from minor flaws. It does not.
The insurance policy cancellations were intentional, not accidental. The whole point of Obamacare was to move people off of their existing plans and into government-approved coverage, then eventually onto government-provided coverage. This is why the law did not take effect until after the 2012 presidential election. Its intended effects were to be hidden until after Obama won a second term.
But the effects were no surprise. Numerous critics, including this newspaper, predicted that the law would throw people off of their insurance plans. In 2010, Senate Republicans proposed legislation to prevent that from happening. Every Senate Democrat, including Jeanne Shaheen, voted against it. Last week Shaheen, Shea-Porter and Kuster rushed to back a bill that does belatedly what the 2010 proposal would have done had Democrats not united to kill it.
Shaheen, Shea-Porter and Kuster cannot avoid hard questions about their support for the law by voting for this fix or issuing more ghost-written talking points. Either they didn't know this would happen, in which case they supported out of blind partisan loyalty a law they did not understand, or they knew it would happen and did not tell the people. New Hampshire is being represented in Washington by three people whose support for one of the most important laws of our time was rooted in either ignorance or malice. How comforting.
She is a typical Democrat female: homely, abrasive and wrong-headed! Voters, if they possess a functioning brain should dump her!
They should at least change their motto.
The GOP marvel at the dedication or fear
= Ignorance. Goose-stepping ignorance.
“...have access to the quality, affordable care they deserve.”
They always end their pathetic excuses with something we deserve — how about earning it!
Of course - the lazy no good liberals that vote for people like this don’t want to earn anything - they want it given to them from another person’s pocket!
And your other rep is that back-stabbing, campaign liar, treacherous minimccain Kelli Ayotte. I alway thought NH folks believed in freedom and US values. What's with the voting?
New Hampshire-—isn’t that the State that has the first primary? Aren’t hey responsible for Romney, Dole, McCain? Don’t they pick the front runner in the Republican party?
Aren’t they really responsible for nObama in the White House?
What this county needs is to stop this first primary disaster by going somewhere else with it’s first primary.
I don’t know what all the fuss is about. Starting January 1, my coverage will be far more comprehensive than anything I’ve ever had before. I now get a free annual “wellness exam,” which includes a mammogram and pap test.
These new benefits may or may not be worth the significantly higher monthly premium, nor the massively increased deductible, since I am a man; but I also have maternity benefits now too, which must count for something, right?
At the very least, I’m grateful for the mental health coverage, as I’m going crazy trying to understand why I’m covered and paying for all this stuff I could never ever possibly even use....
Anyone in NH know who I'm talking about? You should direct your ire up Minnepesakee way...
Yep - maybe "Eat $h-- and Die"
Or both.
Co-conspirators in the most evil piece of TOTALITARIAN legislation the republic has ever seen.
FUBO, FUCONgress, FUUSSC
Dems round here have been getting fake votes- new laws on voter ID haven’t yet gone full fledged...dig into Granite Grok:
Senator Shaheen (and the Democrat Parties Hypocrisy) On ID and Vote Suppression
by Steve MacDonald http://granitegrok.com/blog/2013/11/senator-shaheen-and-the-democrat-parties-hypocrisy-on-id-and-vote-suppression
Local “right winger” has been actually going out on net to post names of those who have obviously been voting in NH and another (their home) state...so potential employers etc will get the drift. Many are from what he calls “nests” of Organizing for America election workers. As NH was the last “battleground state” in 2012, it makes perfect sense they’d focus here....given too full effect of new voter ID law wasn’t on yet. Here:
GrokTALK! Special – Voter Fraud with Jeff Chidester WGIR AM 610
by Skip
This morning, Ed Naile of CNHT and I were on with ‘Grok friend Jeff Chidester on The Morning Buzz from 8am to 9am this morning (like I told Jeff, thanks for letting me drive down from the Lakes Region in the middle of a torrential rain / constant lightning thunderstorm – I’ll remember that for next time). Although there are TONS of stuff going one (f’instance, Jeff and his producer Jen Well (who I finally got to meet for the first time after talking to her on the phone multiple times!), we stayed pretty much on what we’ve been reporting on the ‘Grok for Voter Fraud.
Updated and bumped: Here are the first two segments from yesterday’s show – thanks to Jen Wells for sending it! download or play
http://granitegrok.com/blog/2013/09/groktalk-special-voter-fraud-with-jeff-chidester-wgir-am-610
I was sent 3 segments starting from 8:20am onward – download them or listen to them here (hoping to get the front segments later – will update and bump this post if we do). We’ll get them uploaded to our usual sites a bit later on. Things / people that were brought up? Here:
Jeff Chidester, Ed Naile, CNHT, WGIR, First In The Nation Primary, battleground State, Domicile, Voter Fraud
Rest after the jump. The entire show: download or play
Segment 3 (guessing it was the third, anyways): download or play
Segment 4: download or play
Segment 5: download or play
Voter Integrity, NH Attorney General, Google, Melissa Shohet, OFA, Organizing for America, Millie Knudson, WMUR, Sr Assistant Attorney General Michael K. Brown, Melissa Shohet, State Senator Martha Fuller Clark, Martha’s Motel, Janice Rottenberg, Paolo Cozzi, GraniteGrok, Coalition of NH Taxpayers,military votes, vote stealing, Bryan Gregory Griffith, Arkansas, Bryant Arkansas, Arkansas BAR Association, drivers license, domicile, intent, KARN, income tax, in-kind donation, Ryan Fitzpatrick Flynn, conspiracy to commit voter fraud, absentee vote, Geoff Wetrosky, Kathy Sullivan (by inference), whitewashing, Mollie Shaheen, Naked Undies, slander?, Voter ID, RSA 654.12, 4600 returned letters of unaccountable voters, 99000 same day registrations, provisional votes, voting “nests”
And we thank Jeff Chidester, Jen Wells, and WGIR for letting up come on to talk about Voter Fraud and Voter Integrity!
meant to say NH last of NEW ENGLAND battleground states...
DIMocRATs hate you and your family. They are inveterate liars. They do what liars do...LIE.
I just watched her little spiel in front of the NH DemocRATs. She is a real piece of work. She blames the Republicans for the current miasma I call Lucifercare and is a mean spirited old crone!
Vermont had the Hank and Jerry’s guys who cranked out socialist ice cream. I never bought one dip. They’ve sold out and moved on to where the LBGTs roam.
And our wives get a prostate examination.
Lucifercare is a wonderful thing.
Oh, yeah, Hirschberg of Stonyfield Yoghurt. They settled their big operation in NH to take advantage of the pro-business, low tax climate, but brought their Mass and VT politics with them, to help NH by ruining it. They donated and fund raised for the Three Weird Sisters of Winnepesakee.
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