Posted on 12/17/2013 6:04:02 PM PST by Libloather
Meet the haters.
We’re talking about the voters who’ve had it with all Washington politicians: President Obama, congressional Republicans and congressional Democrats. Despite their distaste for, well, everyone, when push comes to shove, these voters are lining up squarely behind GOP candidates for Congress.
It’s encouraging news for a Republican Party eyeing midterm elections now only about 11 months away. Why? Because it suggests the image problems the party’s congressional members have experienced — which have been worse than those suffered by Obama or congressional Democrats — don’t translate to a death knell at the ballot box.
Seventy-two percent of voters who disapprove of the job Obama, congressional Democrats and congressional Republicans are doing say they’d vote for the GOP candidate for U.S. House in their district if the election were held today, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll released Tuesday. Just 14 percent say they’d vote for the Democrat.
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I don’t vote Republican. I vote Conservative.
Don't count on it. If they are not staunchly conservative I won't vote for them.
Well, the race card wasn’t working.
So let’s try the hate card.
ONLY IF WE GET SOME DECENT CANDIDATES THROUGH THE PRIMARIES!!!
I must say that I wonder how we will maybe see a conservative nominee again, without a party machine willing to build one and back one.
No organized discussion is happening yet concerning the balcanized primary system that sets up a majority of conservative candidates, injects only one Establishment “moderate”, allowing only the super funded, super endorsed “moderate” to break out.
The crickets we hear says not much will change but the number of sanctioned debates and no outright Lefty moderators. I hope that’s enough.
Also, the Tea Party with no organization, is unlikely to play the Establishment game, where we are willing to agree to coalesce around one or even two conservatives, EARLY. Our money, endorsements and support is divided against the house again, squabbling.
So if you disapprove of the job that the president and Congress are doing, that makes you a “hater”? How convenient for incumbents if they can get the media to psychoanalyze their critics.
Yep, the Tea Party are the only ones offering to work on our problems.
It’s a great time for third parties too.
If there were a severe drug shortage even a Libertarian could get elected in 2014!
So all those people who say they hate Palin and hate Bush and hate Republicans and hate conservatives and hate bigots and hate the Koch brothers and hate the NRA and hate the 1% and hate televangelists are going to vote Republican? Who would’a thunk it?
“... expect more people to stay home.”
I don’t think many people will stay home in 2014; too many people are already getting hit in the pocketbook and people vote their pocketbook! Democrats are going to look like creamed peas.
True. But the left defines the word “hate” as anything they do not agree with.
Me, too! I despise Cornyn.
The Washington Post is a hater organization. They just hate a different group...
If these voters will vote Republican, anyway. Think how much better their chances would be IF the GOP would actually stand up and fight for once!
(I don’t put much faith in Paul Ryan, but if the GOP actually does fight and gain major concessions on the debt ceiling, then that’ll be step 1).
DO YOU want Nancy Pelosi as speaker again?? Because if not, primaries are SADLY our only options-here’s to hoping that they make an impact in 2014!!
“Haters Gonna Hate”
You know what I hate?
White guys who use Ebonics.
Dems are buried under a political avalanche of toxic O/Care debris...it keeps spilling out, fouling the political air.
There is no political slogan more powerful than this: "Obamcare is the only legislation in political history passed on a straight party-line Democrat vote."
Plus the media laid the Top Three Lies Of The Year at the WH door...b-i-g lies ....ALL connected to Obamacare, all negatively affecting millions of American voters.
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Conman Boobamba figured he could get away w/ repeated lies about O/care---like keeping your plan, and your doctor.
But the conniver showed his true colors when he said enrollees would "save $2500"....THE biggest line a sitting president ever fed to the American people---which he knew not to be true (said as a re-election ploy---to regain power).
This is prolly the same line by which he duped gullible people on welfare, food stamps and SSI, conning them into believing they could payoff mortgages.
The Chicago conman----as "community organizer"..... even sued banks to get these subprime mtge disasters------the same banks he's now suing for "predator lending"---b/c they burdened the poor with mtges they can't possibly payoff.
Obama’s 2008 verbatim debate statement was as follows: “No. 1, let me just repeat, if you’ve got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it. All I’m going to do is help you to lower the premiums on it. You’ll still have choice of doctor.”
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I believe Obama also said, "I never had sex with that woman."
OBAMA: "Mandela was my idol and mentor."
INTERPRETER "He never had sex with that woman."
The belly-laugh kicks in when you consider Obama threatened to destroy the Republican Party....and made calculated (possibly illegal) presidential moves to strengthen the Dem party.
"Wrongway Boobamba" screwed-up---he needs a new GPS system from Santa.
At the 2008 presidential debate in Nashville, Obama advanced his signature plan that was ultimately enacted into the monumental fraud known as the “Affordable Care Act.” “No. 1, let me just repeat, if you’ve got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it. All I’m going to do is help you to lower the premiums on it. You’ll still have choice of doctor.”
DEMOCRATS CHIME IN:
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)
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