Posted on 11/14/2014 1:35:41 PM PST by SeekAndFind
There were 60 Democrats in the Senate on Christmas Eve 2009, when they voted in lockstep to pass the Affordable Care Act. Soon there will be 46 Democrats in the Senate, or perhaps 47, if Sen. Mary Landrieu manages to eke out a win in Louisiana. In plain numbers, the post-Obamacare trajectory has not been good for Senate Democrats.
The 46 or 47 Democrats in the next Senate are a bit different from the group that passed Obamacare. Sixteen of them took office after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. They never had to vote for it and have never had to defend voting for it.
Are those post-Obamacare Democrats as strongly opposed to changing the law as their colleagues who voted for it? Or are they possibly a little less personally invested in staving off challenges? It's a question that will be tested in coming months.
"After [the midterms], the conditions for repeal and replace may be even better than most people think," writes a Senate Republican aide in an email exchange. "Not only is there a fresh crop of Republicans eager to make good on campaign pledges, but a significant number of Democrats have no particular attachment to the law and may even want to be rid of it as a political issue."
There could be some wishful thinking in that. Yes, the post-Obamacare Democrats include Sens. Joe Manchin, Joe Donnelly, Heidi Heitkamp, and perhaps another centrist or two. But there are a lot of solidly doctrinaire liberals in the post-Obamacare class: Chris Murphy, Richard Blumenthal, Mazie Hirono, Brian Schatz, and others. They'll likely be just as lockstep as their predecessors.
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Is it this year that we start getting hit with our penalties for not having coverage? What will happen after that?
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They went down, down down,
That stinking ring of liars.
And they burned, burned, burned,
The ring of liars, The ring of liars...
They retain the King and Queen along with a rook and remaining pawns.
On the GOP-e side, we lost the Queen along with similar other pieces the dims have. Yet our King is constantly in check while we have yet the threaten their King.
The point is, the dims won't win the game outright. They are content to settle for stalemate.
But in politics, stalemate is a win.
They retain obamacare and have denied the GOP-e the supermajorities needed to override an obama veto. They also know the GOP-e doesn't have enough strategery to mount an effective counterattack.
The GOP congressional leaders need to grow a pair and have a live TV news conference pointing out how the Dems are a bunch of liars that pulled the wool over the eyes of the uninformed about Obamacare.
For what it is worth (very little except in the numbers game), Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), has indicated that he will change over to the GOP side that would change it to 55-45 in Sen. Mary Landrieu loses as it now appears. The other “I-Independent” is Vermont’s Bernie Sanders who, as a self-identified Socialist, will remain with the Democrats.
Interestingly, at 55 the GOP will match its high-water mark matched only 3 other Congress terms (2 years) since WW2. On the other hand, the Democrats have exceeded the 55 count 13 times with their maximum count being 68 at the 89th Term (1965-7) since WW2.
It has a sign up problem, a cost problem, a Supreme Court problem and an American Public problem.
It will end.
and..... in an attempt to be Abraham Lincoln, Obama is issuing his version of the illegal Emancipation Proclamation.
His problem is he isn’t looking a few months down the road
Then we are screwed forever and ever. Hello state run everything.
Great Graphic!
We now have 2/3's of the State Houses. We make this move and it's checkmate against the statists!
They need to tie it in with actual market reforms. Little things mean a lot. Let people buy insurance across state lines. Let individuals get the same tax preferred health insurance benefits corporations get.
We need pro-market reforms that keep our majority. Look at what Walker did. If the GOP could sustain 6% victories Democrats will never again win control of the federal legislature.
It is conservative populism that will serve best. Keep the Internet regulation and tax free. Let the terminally ill circumvent the FDA. That will flow naturally to demands to let the chronically ill do the same. Let drugs get automatic approval if they’ve already been approved in Canada, Britain, Australia, Japan, France or Germany. Let the FDA prove they’re not safe or effective.
Use the Commerce Clause to create a nationwide free market between the states. That’s the idea behind federalism: Competition.
The reason politicians aka control freaks hate the free market is because the consumer is king. Every politician and bureaucrat is a king in embryo. Stop em with clear and easily grasped concepts.
All the above ideas don’t need a majority of Americans to support them. Just a majority of voters. If you can win like Walker did, 52.3 to 46.6, or roughly 5-6 pts Dems cannot steal the election. Every GOP legislature needs to pass voter ID laws asap and purge the rolls and make vote fraud a felony with a bounty and big fines. The bounty will root out all the corruption for us. It’s hard to shoot down the felonies, fines and bounty as racist.
We need to run the show for a generation at least. That’s how you do it.
He can’t grant them the path to citzenship, which is what the Democrats really want.
Once they are granted legal status citizenship is inevitable. We will NEVER revoke legal status.
The 46 or 47 Democrats in the next Senate are a bit different from the group that passed Obamacare. Sixteen of them took office after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. They never had to vote for it and have never had to defend voting for it... the post-Obamacare Democrats include Sens. Joe Manchin, Joe Donnelly, Heidi Heitkamp, and perhaps another centrist or two. But there are a lot of solidly doctrinaire liberals in the post-Obamacare class: Chris Murphy, Richard Blumenthal, Mazie Hirono, Brian Schatz, and others. They'll likely be just as lockstep as their predecessors.
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