Posted on 11/02/2014 2:33:19 PM PST by Libloather
It is becoming increasingly clear how important it is to liberals to try to insulate Obamacare from what is shaping up as another “shellacking.” Sure, a few months after House Democrats passed Obamacare (over unanimous Republican opposition), they lost more House seats (63) while also losing control of that chamber than they had since the 1800s. And, sure, President Obama’s approval rating in Gallup’s polling, which was 67 percent shortly after he took office, has been in the 40s for 18 of the 19 quarters since his Senate allies passed Obamacare (over unanimous GOP opposition) on Christmas Eve 2009. But Obamacare can’t be to blame for any of this, can it? For if it can, that would suggest that the liberal centerpiece of an entire presidency can be repealed and replaced.
Thus, the New York Times asserts, “Republican attacks on the health care law dominated the early months of the campaign, but now have largely receded from view.” Unfortunately for the Times, this claim is false. According to Kantar Media’s Campaign Media Analysis Group (CMAG), anti-Obamacare ads have dominated GOP ad buys in October. In Senate races during the week of October 13-19, Republicans ran nearly 12,000 anti-Obamacare ads. That’s nearly twice as many as they ran on jobs/unemployment, and it’s more than they ran on immigration and international affairs combined. The top-5 issues for the GOP in Senate races for the week of October 13-19 were as follows: 1. Obamacare (nearly 12,000 ads); 2. Budget/Government Spending (nearly 9,000 ads); 3. Energy/Environment (nearly 7,000 ads); 4. Jobs/Unemployment (more than 6,000 ads); 5. Immigration (nearly 5,000 ads).
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Sounds like someone is in deep denial
Which will never be Obama’s fault.
The cancellations will conveniently come AFTER the mid-term election is over.
This election is about alot of things; with Obamacare and the crappy economy at the top.
It is not ONLY about Obamacare, but Obamacare is a big part of it. Politicians should wantonly rule against the will of the people at their peril.
People are voting their pocketbooks.
And that why a lot of Democrats are getting pink slips on Tuesday because they’re the party and power and people are in the mood to fire the boss.
The hell it can’t.
Well its about time. The economy was STILL crappy 2 years ago when people had a choice, and they chose foolishly.
The GOP SHOULD have made this the key,
EVERY DAY;
BUT Romney will not let them,
after all, RomneyCARE/ObamaCARE
must still be forced down the mouth of Americans
according to Romney and GOPe.
Because then the Democrats lose.
The dwarves at the NYT are trying to reweave the disastrous Obama residency still again, but they are running out of strands.
They’ve gone from dream weavers to air weavers.
Obama claimed it was Bush’s fault and he needed more time to turn it around.
People don’t buy that excuse any more and Obama hasn’t delivered.
For that, his party is paying the political price.
If we can’t vote about obamacare, then what shall it be about? ISIS? Running guns to Mexico? Sitting on Keystone for most of a decade? Giving visas to half of Mexico? Throwing a million people out of work? Which thing would we rather talk about?
Obama’s incompetence and ideological radicalism.
It is becoming increasingly clear how important it is to liberals to try to insulate Obamacare from what is shaping up as another “shellacking.” Sure, a few months after House Democrats passed Obamacare (over unanimous Republican opposition), they lost more House seats (63) while also losing control of that chamber than they had since the 1800s. And, sure, President Obama’s approval rating in Gallup’s polling, which was 67 percent shortly after he took office, has been in the 40s for 18 of the 19 quarters since his Senate allies passed Obamacare (over unanimous GOP opposition) on Christmas Eve 2009. But Obamacare can’t be to blame for any of this, can it? For if it can, that would suggest that the liberal centerpiece of an entire presidency can be repealed and replaced.
This should have been a special election for the office of the President of the United States to replace a current resident that has repeatedly violated the Oath of Office.
The facts: a multi-thousand page bill taking control of one-sixth of the largest national economy in the world was passed by a single party with not one vote from their opposition. The Senate rules for passage were deliberately altered with an eye to easing its passage. And nobody voting for the bill had read it.
That was all bad enough, but when it turned out that "you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor" was a lie, and "you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan," was also a lie, and that the predicted $2500 savings per family were also a lie, and that the website that was supposed to ease the country into this idiot scheme was a malfunctioning mess...hey, is anybody on the liberal side paying any attention to any of this? Of course people are mad, and when anything that looks like it might be politically unpalatable is illegally tabled by executive order until the elections are safely past, people notice. Despite media dismissal, we notice.
So yes, it's an issue. What is passing marvelous is anyone naive enough to think it wouldn't be.
Yep, and those two are very connected issues too!
You should have asked her if she believed the 2A was the law of the land also.
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