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Carney: Obamacare ‘Absolutely Worth It’ if Dems Lose the Senate
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Posted on 01/26/2014 8:30:30 AM PST by Sub-Driver

January 26, 2014 10:28 AM Carney: Obamacare 'Absolutely Worth It' if Dems Lose the Senate By Andrew Johnson

Even if Obamacare proves to be electoral Kryptonite for Democrats in this year’s midterms, the White House still believes the health-care law was worth the political hit.

“The answer is it is absolutely worth it, no matter what happens politically,” press secretary Jay Carney told ABC’s Jon Karl. In fact, Carney didn’t expect running against Obamacare to even be a winning message for Republicans “because they’ve got to explain what repeal [of the law] means.”


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2014election; 2016election; abc; abortion; andrewjohnson; deathpanels; demagogicparty; election2014; election2016; jaycarney; jonathankarl; jonkarl; obamacare; zerocare
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If you say so........
1 posted on 01/26/2014 8:30:30 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

“because they’ve got to explain what repeal [of the law] means.”

Be happy to.

It means keeping the plans and doctors you want. It means premiums and deductibles costing less than half of what theyve been pushed up to so far. It means no death panels. It means more freedom.


2 posted on 01/26/2014 8:34:19 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: Sub-Driver

Carney and Obama and Pelosi... this shows me how noble they are. /S


3 posted on 01/26/2014 8:37:52 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Sub-Driver

If it’s not enforced then is it really a law? obunghole has simply declared the “law” to not apply in so many cases now that what’s the point. obamneycare is the equivalent of one of those peculiar blue laws from colonial times like “No walking a goose on a leash” or “No naked bathing”. The only suckers are those who are what can’t be enforced - namely the dumb saps signing up for the individual mandate.


4 posted on 01/26/2014 8:41:51 AM PST by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: Sub-Driver

WHEN will these idiots wake up? When will we atop electing these idiots.

IF, and it’s only about 50/50, the GOP takes back the Senate this cycle it will be only because the Dems have a lot of seats to defend in Red States. In 2016 the GOP loses 7 seats MINIMUM in blue States.

And so what if they get the Senate? They don’t have the WH. Nothing will get done except that the RINOs will feel more emboldened.

Why we don’t get out a solid Conservative message is utterly beyond me.


5 posted on 01/26/2014 8:43:53 AM PST by RIghtwardHo
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To: RIghtwardHo

My tag line explains it all.


6 posted on 01/26/2014 8:45:28 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: Sub-Driver

The seed of cancer is implanted is what he means. It may not perform like they intended but it will do enough damage to destroy what is in place so that it could never revert back.


7 posted on 01/26/2014 8:50:58 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Sub-Driver
“The answer is it is absolutely worth it, no matter what happens politically,” press secretary Jay Carney

Of course they do...

What the Obama spokes clown suppose to say???

"We need to repeal ACA to keep the Senate" ? That's not going to happen...

Why should they care about repealing ACA to keep the Senate when they have plans to steal the it anyway ?

8 posted on 01/26/2014 8:54:24 AM PST by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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There's always the circus, Jay.
9 posted on 01/26/2014 8:56:11 AM PST by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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10 posted on 01/26/2014 9:02:44 AM PST by RedMDer (Happy with this, America? Make your voices heard. 2014 is just around the corner. ~ Sarah Palin)
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To: ronnie raygun

I haven’t seen any well-thought out plan for what it would take to roll it back (while replacing it with something more workable). Surely, it can be done.

Going back to “business as usual” is NOT going to cut it, though. We were clearly on an unsustainable path BEFORE Obamacare.


11 posted on 01/26/2014 9:02:45 AM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: Sub-Driver

It’s a ‘Doomsday Machine’, yaknow.

Congre$$, not ObamaCare.


12 posted on 01/26/2014 9:14:29 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: Sub-Driver

So Obama’s guy is telling his democrat friends not to expect an apology when they lose the Senate.

His arrogance is killing them, too. Lol.


13 posted on 01/26/2014 9:15:10 AM PST by ToastedHead
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To: Sub-Driver

Imagine if the Republicans had a tenth of this level of commitment.

Tea Party now.


14 posted on 01/26/2014 9:17:05 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: The Antiyuppie
I haven’t seen any well-thought out plan for what it would take to roll it back (while replacing it with something more workable). Surely, it can be done.

Whatever plan is put on the table, the one element that will need to be addressed is the millions who enrolled under ACA for Medicaid...

That cat cannot be put back in the bag...political suicide...

Not sure of the answer to that question...

Pretty much any other part of ACA can be transferred to the states to handle...

The States can pick up enrollees who have subsidies and move them back to reg insurance plans...

15 posted on 01/26/2014 9:20:00 AM PST by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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-— We were clearly on an unsustainable path BEFORE Obamacare. -—

In what sense? No one was denied medical treatment. The system was stable and could have functioned indefinitely.


16 posted on 01/26/2014 9:21:58 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Sub-Driver

Carney always looked like a 17 year old kid, so now he is growing a beard so he an be taken more seriously. Good luck with that.


17 posted on 01/26/2014 9:23:38 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: Sub-Driver

Hmmm, I am used to just reflexively disagreeing with Carney. How about it still isn’t worth it, but that could be the silver lining?


18 posted on 01/26/2014 9:26:37 AM PST by cdcdawg (Be seeing you...)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

Did you also notice that the State Department spokeswoman looks like a college sophomore.


19 posted on 01/26/2014 9:30:29 AM PST by DeFault User
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Since Carney and his boss and all the henchpeople have been “explaining” Obamacare by continually LYING, explaining repeal will be a piece of cake. Thanks Sub-Driver.


20 posted on 01/26/2014 9:35:40 AM PST by SunkenCiv (;http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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