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October 26, 2011: Who Coined 'Obamacare'? (Free Republic mentioned)
The Wire.com ^ | October 26, 2011 | ELSPETH REEVE

Posted on 12/01/2013 7:29:09 PM PST by South40

House Democrats are blocking their Republican colleagues from using Obamacare in letters mailed on the taxpayer's dime to voters, but who made up the term in the first place? Lots of people are asking this question, getting answers like "Certainly a republican, potentially Glenn Beck" and "I am about 80% sure it was Rush Limbaugh" and "Hillary Clinton's campaign coined Obamacare." Iowa Rep. Steve King claimed President Obama himself made it up. Free Republic posters want to claim credit. Lots of liberals suspect an insidious plot by Fox News. But the answer appears to be: a lobbyist.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aca; congressexempt; congresssaysdie; deathcare; frinthenews; huac; huaca; husseins; jimthompson; moslemsexempt; obamacare; obamadoesntcare; obamafail; termobamacare; unaffordablecareact
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To: null and void
Posting With Protection
81 posted on 12/01/2013 9:59:28 PM PST by ToastedHead
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To: South40

Zerocare is a better name for it!


82 posted on 12/01/2013 10:04:55 PM PST by vigilante2 (Re-elect nobody)
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To: ToastedHead; montag813

Does montag813 know about you?


83 posted on 12/01/2013 10:06:15 PM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: null and void

Is he available for fleecing of assets?


84 posted on 12/01/2013 10:10:46 PM PST by ToastedHead
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To: ToastedHead
He's a fireman...
85 posted on 12/01/2013 10:14:20 PM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: null and void
Will check his response time. Lighting myself now to develop tolerance to FR banning procedures...


86 posted on 12/01/2013 10:20:21 PM PST by ToastedHead
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

OK.

Imagine a Lib skank propagandist for hire by the hour.

A Goebbels, that gobbles.


87 posted on 12/01/2013 11:34:55 PM PST by Enduring Freedom (Bartender says: we don't serve your type here. A faster-than-light neutrino walks into a bar.)
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To: Understand the stimulus; GeronL
who says the minority party can force the Boehner cowards over a word ?

I assume this has to do with approval of congressional newsletters. Newsletters are bulk mail and have long been distinguished from individual constituent mail.

With modern word processing, this gets a bit tricky. It has been many years since I worked on the Hill, but offices used to be (and I presume still are) required to submit newsletter copy for approval by (IIRC) the House Administration Committee, or whatever it is called these days. Again if recollection serves, back in my day small lists could be mailed without prior review, but anything over 500 pieces had to be submitted.

Newsletters are not supposed to be political in nature, so very murky lines get drawn about what is permissible. This leads to periodic dustups.

If the dems are censoring Obamacare, they are opening themselves to mockery. Assuming, of course, that tone deaf Republicans are agile enough to respond.

88 posted on 12/02/2013 2:08:48 AM PST by sphinx
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To: South40

FUBOcare.


89 posted on 12/02/2013 2:12:41 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: South40; Viennacon; Paladin2; Cicero; FlingWingFlyer; stanne; fatnotlazy; Vendome; ROCKLOBSTER; ...
So, who are the FReeper winners in this contest?

As I felt like wasting a lot of time, I did some (read: way WAY too much) clicking around…..

As it turns out, Cicero was right: socialized health care in the US is often labeled by those fighting hardest for that particular implementation: hence the preceding "Hillary-Care", "RomneyCare", etc.

The first references to ObamaCare started appearing when Zero made his call for "Universal Health Care" in a speech to "Families USA" on 1/25/07, when his campaign was supposedly in "exploratory mode".

The first use of "Hussein Care" was:
    "When can we start referring to his proposal as "Hussein Care"? "
    in the thread:
   Obama calls for universal health care within six years (and Hillary too)
    by PBRSTREETGANG on 1/26/07, 11 AM;

The first use of "Obama Care" was:
    "If obama-care mirrors the earlier hillary-care, the government will decide doctor's specialties."
    in the thread:
   "Obama Calls for Universal Health Care"
    by Jacquerie on 1/29/07, 5 AM;


What's fascinating about going back into these threads and searching around is just HOW different the world was back then! In early 2007,

Oh, how the world would change….
90 posted on 12/02/2013 3:24:17 AM PST by Yossarian
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To: TBall

It’s a moron vs an oxymoron.


91 posted on 12/02/2013 3:45:52 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: South40

Obamacare is good for placing the blame where it belongs. Without Obama, the bill would not have been signed into law.

However, since the care we’re going to get might be comparable to what people in Obama’s home country get, why not call it KenyaCare?

Another name that would fit, is BOCare, in honor of the dog in the White House.

Since Obamacare is nothing but a Ponzi scheme, why not name it appropriately, and call it PonziCare.


92 posted on 12/02/2013 7:02:11 AM PST by adorno (Y)
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To: Yossarian

Using your evidence, the original concept award would go to PBRSTREETGANG.

Somewhere today at FR, someone is making a comment that foreshadows a disaster we won’t hear about until 2019.


93 posted on 12/02/2013 10:01:40 AM PST by ToastedHead
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To: Yossarian
HusseinCare...because anyone *who's sane* won't accept it.

And, because the MSM/0 handlers don't like us to use his middle name.

94 posted on 12/02/2013 10:11:26 AM PST by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: Yossarian

Well whaddaya know!


95 posted on 12/02/2013 1:40:28 PM PST by Jacquerie (Governor Jerry Brown's legacy - The Brown Streak bullet train.)
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To: South40; GeronL
On the Washington Post's website, Benac's story carried the headline, "In Health Care Debate, U-Word Is Back."

UNAFFORDABLE?

96 posted on 12/02/2013 6:14:29 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: sphinx

thanku...if house were the senate and roles were reversed...they would change the rules


97 posted on 12/02/2013 10:17:02 PM PST by Understand the stimulus
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To: Understand the stimulus
Again, my recollections are decades old, but the rules on franking of mass mailings limited things like the numbers of pictures of the congresscritter that could be included, the amount of self-referencing in text, and a bar against overtly political messaging. The idea is that congressional "newsletters" are supposed to be non-partisan and informational in character, as opposed to political. The lines can get awfully blurry.

But if democrats now regard "Obamacare" as a term of invective, that is good news.

98 posted on 12/03/2013 1:40:03 AM PST by sphinx
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