Posted on 02/11/2014 6:43:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Ron Fournier, one of Obamacare's staunchest defenders, wants us to know he is "getting sick" of defending the law, writing that it was "getting difficult and slinking toward impossible" to advocate for it.
For the second time in a year, certain businesses were given more time before being forced to offer health insurance to most of their full-time workers. Employers with 50 to 99 workers were given until 2016 to comply, two years longer than required by law. During a yearlong grace period, larger companies will be required to insure fewer employees than spelled out in the law.
Not coincidentally, the delays punt implementation beyond congressional elections in November, which raises the first problem with defending Obamacare: The White House has politicized its signature policy.
The win-at-all-cost mentality helped create a culture in which a partisan-line vote was deemed sufficient for passing transcendent legislation. It spurred advisers to develop a dishonest talking point-"If you like your health plan, you'll be able to keep your health plan." And political expediency led Obama to repeat the line, over and over and over again, when he knew, or should have known, it was false.
Defending the ACA became painfully harder when online insurance markets were launched from a multibillion-dollar website that didn't work, when autopsies on the administration's actions revealed an epidemic of incompetence that began in the Oval Office and ended with no accountability.
Then officials started fudging numbers and massaging facts to promote implementation, nothing illegal or even extraordinary for this era of spin. But they did more damage to the credibility of ACA advocates.
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ObamaCare is nothing more than a transition period to Single Payer....That’s the reason their proponents really don’t care what’s in it. The mission has been accomplished, the final barriers to Single Payer have been removed.
Obama Supporters (not to be confused with Athletic Supporters) do NOT think, to begin with.
The ONLY thing that they are interested in is the FREE SH*T that they hope will be dumped in their laps.
Remember, these “people” are PARASITES, first and foremost.
Now, quit complaining and get back to WORK so they can get their FREE SH*T at your expense.
Ron, of course it doesn’t make sense. It’s your job to defend it no matter what. You are a toadie.
Buck up or they will bring you in and smack you around!
I wouldn’t be so quick to jump to that conclusion. There’s no way that a GOP Congress, or even a lot of Dems from Red and Purple states, will support single payer. Now, and probably for at least the next 20-30 years.
Obamacare is a real watershed in American politics. It wont just fall apart, itll drag any sort of confidence in big government solutions down with it.
If Conservatives can leverage it correctly it’ll swing the ideological pendulum back to limited and small government rather nicely. Actually it may do that of it’s own accord. But the pendulum is pretty much stopped at this point. Any further movement to the Left will be slight and defined by what Obama thinks he can unilaterally get away with.
I do not think they were cowed at all. The GOPe leadership believes in about 95% of the Democrat agenda. They believe they are smarter than us and they are better than us. They truely believe they have not only the brains but the right to tell us how to live our lives and that being subserviant to them.
The GOPe think they are kings and we should all be groveling at their feet begging them for any scrap they deign to toss to us. They are the scum of the Earth.
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