Posted on 03/12/2014 9:40:18 AM PDT by Cheerio
Bill Clinton lent his political muscle to Democrat Alex Sink’s election campaign for the 13th congressional district of Florida, but to no avail. Sink wound up losing to her Rand Paul-supported Republican opponent, David Jolly, in what many analysts are calling a bellwether election for the impact of Obamacare on the 2014 election cycle.
In a high-profile election that pitted candidates on opposite sides of the Obamacare issue and saw over $11 million spent, both parties pulled out the big guns in the days leading up to Tuesday's election.
The week before the election, Bill Clinton offered his support to Sink, recording a phone call that went out to local Democratic volunteers. The Huffington Post reports that over a half-dozen House Democrats also emailed fundraising appeals on Sink’s behalf.
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CWW!
This stuff is good!
Makes my skin
Look like Cottonwood,
Bark, that is.
Rand Paul’s strategy of attacking Clinton makes good political sense. There will be a backlash against perversity.
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I agree.
Ya, well… Bill Clinton may have been the 1st Black President, but Obama is the last!!!
Interesting that the GOP managed to eke it out despite the Libertarian carve-out. Interesting too that Paul broke ranks for a Libertarian. That will cost him.
Agreed. My concern is that the RINOs will cave in again to the Obamacrats.
The con-artist challenge by Democrats to RINOs to “Fix” the failed Federal Medical Insurance Law, Obamacare, is now approaching a decision point: April Fools Day, 2014.
Always eager to do nothing unless it is something that might make the Democrats hate them less, the GOP Establishment is actively searching for ways to help “their best friends across the aisle” on the failed Obamacare Law which is set to fail April Fools Day, 2014.
The GOP-E has recently picked up Romney’s “Torch of Tyranny” (Romneycare), and are happily working on their own version of Federal Medical Inurance called “RINOcare.”
Will the TEA Party Reps. in the US House rise up and replace “Doormat for Obama” Boehner, and then ABOLISH the RINOcare replacement of Obamacare, or will everyone just sit on their hands and be happy to be everybody’s fool, again?
Romney is hoping that Boehner’s RINOcare prevails, as it will allow Romney to run again as the GOP-E Nominee in 2016.
BTW, why are so many RINOs so determined to continue the financial destruction of America by advocating Federal RINOcare?
Obamacare has proven to millions of Americans that Federal Medical Insurance will always be doomed to fail, a lesson ignored by our sorry Federal RINOs.
FORWARD !
[BTW, have you ever noticed that the Obamanation command “FORWARD !” is ALWAYS towards the Financial Cliff?]
No matter how badly ObamaCare threatens to hurt the Democrats this year, Democrats running for re-election can’t vote to repeal it, since doing so would anger the Democrats’ pro-ObamaCare liberals and keep them away from the polls.
The Democrats must find a way to get ObamaCare out of the news. Yesterday’s Republican win in Florida was a test case of whether bashing the Koch brothers day and night was a winning formula to distract the voters. Since it wasn’t, we should expect increasingly desperate, harebrained attacks on whatever or whoever Harry Reid’s paranoia convinces him is out to destroy the Democrats.
Your folly is ignoring charity. There is an important difference between charity and entitlement: The truly needy will get help before the creeps get anything. Charity demands a change in behavior if the recipient is able. Entitlement demands nothing, and becomes and indentured constituency.
Rush said today that some of the Dems will decide to run against Obamacare, after Sink tried running on a platform of “fixing” it. (It needs “fixing” all right.)
I think the ones who actually voted for it will have a hard time taking that tack however. Sink didn’t vote for it so she had a little more latitude.
Best guess is that they’ll try to talk about anything but Obamacare. Second guess is that they’ll be working hard to nominate Romney again in the GOP primaries so that they can neutralize the issue with Romneycare.
That has been the question since Boehner took the Speaker's chair.
Romney is hoping that Boehner’s RINOcare prevails, as it will allow Romney to run again as the GOP-E Nominee in 2016.
Reduce, reuse, recycle. Who could get excited about that creep?
BTW, why are so many RINOs so determined to continue the financial destruction of America by advocating Federal RINOcare?
I think it is because they are facing demographic reality. The longer the aged live the more medical care they will require and the more Social Security will drain. Both sides want the aged to die. See tag line.
[BTW, have you ever noticed that the Obamanation command “FORWARD !” is ALWAYS towards the Financial Cliff?]
Think of the powers our creditors (that we bailed out) will acquire in a national bankruptcy. There is a reason he was named George WALKER Bush.
Both of you have good points. I think the government should play a role in subsidizing high deductible plans for the indigent so that no one ends up without personal health insurance if they lose a job, etc. But the subsidized plan should be a person’s own private plan, not an employer plan or a government plan like Medicare.
The subsidy should be enough to cover a catastrophic plan when a person has no ability to keep up the premiums on the personal plan they chose originally.
Then charity, whether via hospital and doctor forgiveness of money due, or private charity from others, could step in and help people out with their deductibles and co-pays.
It’s important when doing this, though, to not create a tax wedge that keeps people from looking for work to get back on their feet, as the current Obamacare disaster does.
Government should also pass a law specifying that once an individual has health insurance, they will always be insurable, and they will always be able to switch insurance companies without consideration of pre-existing conditions. Then pass a grace period law that enables everyone access to insurance one time, or when they turn 19 or 20 years old. That would take care of the pre-existing conditions problem.
With this approach, both Medicare and Medicaid could eventually be scrapped, Most people would prefer to continue with their private insurance throughout their lives if the money currently being dumped into Medicare and Medicaid were redirected to a system of subsidies.
With all that in place, healthcare costs would continue moderating under the pressure of mostly high-deductible plans, as they have been since such plans started becoming much more common recently.
Sink sank sunk.
My thoughts, exactly!
I see from the posts above there are plenty of folks who think the idea of Clinton helping a Sink is amusing as heck.
Clinton support has been the kiss of death for any candidate except himself.
Why? How do you justify taking money by force from one person to dispense medical treatment to another? When does "enough" become "Enough!"?
The only role of State governments in health care that I see is in managing contagious diseases. I see no healthcare role for the Federal government enumerated in the Constitution.
Did he receive his obligatory blow job from Sink?
Dateline Nov 2016:
Clinton Unable to Save Clinton from Obamacare in Presidential Election
Has BJ Clintoon had a successful campaign for another rat after his Impeachment?
Seems like he is the kiss of eternal sleep when he campaigns for rats.
You r such a dirty boy, dirtboy. :)
Didn’t he campaign with Terry in Virginia?
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