Posted on 03/31/2014 6:39:19 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
ABC News Political Analyst and former Bush/Cheney advisor Matthew Dowd attempted to downplay the impact ObamaCare will have in the 2013-midterm elections. Appearing on This Week w/ George Stephanopoulos on March 30, Dowd asserted, “2014 is going to be about the direction of the country, the economy, and how people feel in their lives. It's not going to be about ObamaCare.”
Despite the bizarre prediction from the ABC analyst, conservative editor of "The Weekly Standard" Bill Kristol slapped down Dowd’s ridiculous claim and shot back that “I’m happy to have a referendum on ObamaCare… and will be good for Republicans.” See video below.]
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Won’t happen in 24 months...
oh ok. I thought i recalled reading in her column [not that i read it regularly mind you] that she has a brother who is a republican.
Or 24 BUSINESS HOURS which is longer. (Someone explain it to him.)
They want to say that the problem with Obamacare is that private insurance companies are still involved.
Not a chance in this world.
Because people are already dying from this and friends and family of those people will not shut up about it.
You may live in a bubble where you don’t know anyone who was damaged by this, but if you do your circle of friends has to be both small and shallow.
Liberals are getting hammered at churches. In the check out line at the store. At the doctors offices. At their jobs.
This one grew too nasty and too widespread to hide.
And the denial required to even try makes anyone trying to do so and the proper remedy for this denial is ridicule. For any who engage in it.
“...the average American will assume Obamacare is a success.”
Thanks to the Propaganda Ministry and the Democrat Party,
Obamacare will be declared a wonderful thing and
Progressives will ride a wave of love and affection
felt by about 49% of the electorate.
(Herr Goebles would be proud.)
IMHO
Dowd’s whole, sorry story is well encapsulated in this wikipedia summary. You know it’s bad when Sidney Blumenthal calls you an opportunist:
Dowd was born in Detroit, Michigan. He began his political career as a Democrat, working for, among others, Texas Lt. Governor Bob Bullock. In 1999, he switched parties to become a Republican.[1]
During the 2002 election, Dowd was a senior adviser to the Republican National Committee.[citation needed]
During the 2004 Presidential election, Dowd was chief strategist for George W. Bush’s re-election campaign.[1]
As reported in The New York Times on April 1, 2007, Dowd had come to feel a deep frustration with and great disappointment in George W. Bush, whom he criticized for failing to call the nation together in time of war, for ignoring the will of the American public with regard to the Iraq War, his re-nomination of former UN ambassador John Bolton after his rejected confirmation and for failing to hold Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld accountable for the Abu Ghraib scandal.[2] According to Democracy Now, Dowd claims to have undergone a change of heart regarding the Iraq War, and adopted a position advocating a withdrawal from that country, after contemplating the likelihood of his own son’s deployment to the country, as well as after seeing Bush refuse to meet with anti-war-mother Cindy Sheehan in the summer of 2005, while he was entertaining Lance Armstrong at his ranch in Crawford, Texas. Dowd cited these incidents, as well as Bush’s handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, as cause for this change.[3][4]
Upon leaving the Bush administration, Dowd has not been on speaking terms with former White House political adviser Karl Rove.[5] Sidney Blumenthal, in an opinion piece in Salon, titled “Matthew Dowd’s not-so-miraculous conversion”, described Dowd as an “opportunist”.[6]
On December 2, 2010 Dowd penned an opinion piece in the National Journal defending Wikileaks, writing that, “Republicans and Democrats seem to agree on a few things: That the government, in the name of fighting terrorism, has the right to listen in on all of our phone conversations and read our e-mails, even if it has no compelling reason for doing so.”[7]
I have the same concern. It's not enough for people to be unhappy about something like Obamacare. To get them to actually switch votes, to seal the deal, you have to show them some concrete accomplishment and direction.
The HOR having all of those votes, yet accomplishing nothing, hasn't helped. Letting the media and the dems set the assumption that the federal gov "shutdown" wasn't popular with mainstream voters was a big mistake. Namecalling innovators and patriots who speak out, such as Cruz, Paul, and Snowden isn't bringing over people who value privacy and want a less intrusive government. Supporting Obama's foreign policy of interfering where we don't belong does not inspire.
The only way we win people over is let Cruz/Paul or Paul/Cruz set the tone. Without forward-thinking appealing non-mainstreamers who understand the constitutional conservative vision, you've got the globalist backstabbing me-first RINOs. Nobody's going to accept "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" as a path to change.
Dowd sounds like that so-called NYTimes Conservative fraud, David Brooks.
Saying something doesn’t make it true. If the GOP just makes this about ODimwithcare, they will not do well While it is an issue, it isn’t as big an issue (and won’t be) as some claim.
They run on this alone at their peril.
For now, the problems with the law are rather isolated, and have been marginalized as anecdotal. But once the actuaries take into account all the new unhealthy additions, and the inability to properly rate the higher risk customers, the rate increases will affect everyone. But it takes a lot of time to work through the system, as rates are figured annually, and are implemented throughout the year.
I'm not sure when the increases will start to appear, but when it does, that's when the real S%&t will the fan.
The Democrats thought it would be a success, and they hoped they could run in it for 2014, now they're doing all they can to eke past the mid-terms. And you can be sure as soon as that election is over, they'll start worrying about 2016.
ObamaCare is an albatross around their neck, and it always will be.
Did we have an election, and I missed it?
Maybe Bama's 2nd term is only two years?
The first three are entirely intertwined with the fourth, so I can't see how it won't be a factor.
ObamaCare is an albatross around their neck, and it always will be.
It’s only an albaross as long as there is employer provided health care. Once most every is dumped on the exchanges the albatross will be on the GOPe to accept socialized medicine. Which they will happily do. There is no evidence the GOPe will vigorously work to repeal obamacare “root and branch”.
Matthew Dowd is a joke. He is a former democrat who somewhere along the line, globbed onto GOP politics and apparently rode the GOP wave of the early 2000s to success and switched parties. Almost all of his positions are very liberal. He is so liberal, that he does not get along with Karl Rove - so that should say something.
And we can trust those numbers to be just as accurate as the unemployment figures this administration releases.
Maybe, but how about an impeachment conviction?
Sixty seven senators voting to convict? Even less likely.
ANY Republican that hires Dowd is a LOSER RINO!!! He is ALL about Gays.
Are you certain that it doesn’t just require a majority?
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