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Could 2014 rescue Obama from Obamacare debacle?
Yahoo! News ^ | November 21, 2013 | Olivier Knox

Posted on 11/21/2013 11:17:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Can President Barack Obama heal his second term from the self-inflicted wounds of Obamacare? How?

The usual inside-the-Beltway doctors are offering the usual inside-the-Beltway prescriptions: Amputate! (He should fire someone.) Transfusion! (Bring new blood into his insular circle, ideally someone who can say “no” to him and have it count.)

Inside the White House, one remedy dominates the discussion. As Obama himself said Nov. 14: Things may turn around “if we can just get the darn website working and smooth this thing out.” Aides say that growing numbers of Americans signing up for health insurance will defend those benefits — making it harder for Republicans to rally wavering Democrats behind crippling the Affordable Care Act.

Dig a little more, and administration officials confess to hoping that a steadily improving economy could be a political cure-all. “The No. 1 priority has and will be economic progress,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said Nov. 4....

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: economy; obama; obamacare; polls
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To: Ray76
It’s the oldest trick in the book. Get as many mouths at the trough as possible, then when you pull it away all the squealing pigs will fight you.

Promise them, "If you like your plan, you can keep it."

21 posted on 11/21/2013 11:56:54 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Ray76

And serviced by just whom?

It’s going to make the old stuff look like gold.

God ain’t mocked here, bud. Let the Democrats choose the duration of their agony. And be anxious not.


22 posted on 11/21/2013 11:57:34 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: Cold Heat

There would not be “new elections” in that instance until 2016. Mr. Boehner would be president until at least January 2017, just as Gerald Ford served out Richard Nixon’s second term.


23 posted on 11/21/2013 11:58:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Of the 4 wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." Reagan)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I’m not mocking God. I don’t know where you get that idea.


24 posted on 11/21/2013 11:59:32 PM PST by Ray76
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Even a President Boehner would be head and shoulders above Big O and Slow Joe.


25 posted on 11/22/2013 12:00:05 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

OK.....was not sure about that....


26 posted on 11/22/2013 12:00:12 AM PST by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
The only way to get free of the quagmire is to ditch the program.

They're screwed if the do, screwed if they don't. Even the idiots are going to feel the pain. They can't hide that, this time.
27 posted on 11/22/2013 12:00:17 AM PST by 98ZJ USMC
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To: Ray76

You speak fallacies.

I primarily refer to DEMOCRATS being unable to mock God.

Look, they are taunting the Lion of Judah who is also the Great Physician. Do you really want it to be over with quick? They need the time to learn the lesson good.


28 posted on 11/22/2013 12:01:19 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

We’re gonna end up having to legalize pot just to get the tax dollars to fund SS/Medicare. Immigrants will be a net loss if they all qualify for subsidized air/food/health.


29 posted on 11/22/2013 12:02:10 AM PST by ToastedHead
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I never stated differently. Heck, a president 2ndDivisionvet or HiTeck RedNeck would be vastly superior to the current regime or cankles.


30 posted on 11/22/2013 12:03:09 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Of the 4 wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." Reagan)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If you wanted to elect me president I would not refuse.

But I am not sure I could deal with all the Washington egos. I think I’d give them all conniption fits.


31 posted on 11/22/2013 12:04:38 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I speak fallacies? Yeah ok, whatever. You’re not making much sense vis-a-vis anything that I’ve posted.

Maranantha. Good night.


32 posted on 11/22/2013 12:06:16 AM PST by Ray76
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To: Ray76

Time for Chief Supreme, John Roberts, to make amends and declare the whole mess, tweaks and all, unconstitutional.


33 posted on 11/22/2013 12:06:50 AM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’d be the first really redneck president. Jimmy Carter didn’t really have a red neck. He just pretended to.


34 posted on 11/22/2013 12:07:08 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: Ray76

I’m not sure you want to blithely beg a “maranatha.” Not without getting right about things. You’d get rebuked. Of course I don’t make sense to you and I don’t expect to until you repent.


35 posted on 11/22/2013 12:08:10 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

President Carter was a prig and a goo-goo. The morale at the White House went WAY up when President Reagan came into office, believe me. Even among us spear carriers.


36 posted on 11/22/2013 12:08:47 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Of the 4 wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." Reagan)
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To: luvbach1

That would be called feeding a new case to the USSC based on Constitutional provisions about taxes.


37 posted on 11/22/2013 12:09:15 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: Ray76

Here’s a new thread: 2015 Obamacare Enrollment Will Be Delayed Until Just After the Midterms

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3094223/posts

Now it really is “good night”


38 posted on 11/22/2013 12:09:37 AM PST by Ray76
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Prigs are not God trusting people. They think they can come up with a moral code that stands alone. Never worked, never will.


39 posted on 11/22/2013 12:10:38 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

That’s him. Woodrow Wilson without the charm, but with all the racism.


40 posted on 11/22/2013 12:11:58 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Of the 4 wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." Reagan)
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