Posted on 03/14/2014 1:49:30 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Democrats are feeling the sting of the electorate----voters steaming from broken promises, the disastrous online rollout, hundreds of thousands of policy cancellations, sticker shock over coverage, ruinous deductibles, fleeing doctors, chaotic hospital networks, and Obama's self-serving changes and delays in the law to make himself look good.
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As a candidate, Republican David Jolly was nearly abandoned by the Party — some Washington Republicans described Jolly’s campaign as a Keystone Cops operation, marked by inept fundraising, top advisers stationed hundreds of miles away from the district, outspent by his opponent as Democrats poured money into her campaign.
Jolly lit into Sink's position to "fix" the train wreck Obamacare.
A blockbuster Jolly campaign ad referenced lock-stepping Dems (who marched smartly to der leader's dictates and passed the law by an historic straight Democrat party-line vote).
Jolly's ad cautioned voters that the district needed a rep who will defend THEIR interests---not those of Obama.
BACKSTORY As far back as 2008, at the presidential debate in Nashville, Democrat candidate Obama advanced his signature healthcare plan---ultimately enacted, by an historic straight Democrat party-line vote, into the "Affordable Care Act"
QUOTING 2008 OBAMA: "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.”
Repeated over and over again---- with his promise that every American family would be saving $2500.00 on healthcare costs.
Significantly, Obamba NEVER corrected lock-stepping Democrats, all reading from the same Democrat talking points, all of them repeating the same Democrat promises---over and over again.
LOCK-STEPPING PARTY LOYALTY NOT SEEN SINCE 1930-40's ERA EUROPE Obama and the Dems marched in lockstep.....the persistent Dumbocrat drumbeat ---- in obeisance to Obama ---- kept ringing reassuringly in our ears: "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan."
QUOTING 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)
ACA can’t be fixed because it is predicated on the individual mandate and the employer mandate which continue to be redefined, delayed and exempted based on the daily political winds. The law is filled with ambiguous subtext that can be interpreted to say anything.
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