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Mad About Obamacare? Blame Bush
American Spectator ^ | March 21, 2010 | Philip Kline

Posted on 03/21/2010 9:19:43 PM PDT by ejdrapes

Mad About Obamacare? Blame Bush
By Philip Klein on 3.21.10 @ 11:27PM

They did it.

Despite an overwhelming public backlash and the likely political ramifications, Democrats cut deals and twisted arms and got the votes they needed, winning by a 219 to 212 margin. While the reconciliation process still remains, it’s a sideshow at this point. The United States is a presidential signature away from having national health care.

Suffice it to say, as somebody who has spent the past year working to expose the devastating consequences of this legislation and who values individual liberty, this is a sad day. And I’m working on a longer piece right now for tomorrow’s site about the ongoing fight against its provisions, which just got a lot harder. But as upset as I am, I can’t pin the blame entirely on Democrats.

The reason is that by passing this bill, liberal Democrats were just doing what liberal Democrats do – raising taxes and expanding the role of government in our lives. Liberals have been working for decades to impose national health care on America. It’s been their Holy Grail. It should have been apparent to everybody that once they took over Congress and the presidency that it would be their top domestic priority. All of the leading Democratic presidential candidates proposed health care plans roughly along the lines of what passed today.

The question conservatives should be asking though, is how did we get in this position in the first place? How come, over the course of two elections, Democrats were able to take back the White House and amass substantial majorities in both chambers of Congress, allowing them to enact this sweeping legislation with no Republican votes – and huge defections in their own party?

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To: April Lexington
Obama will likely sell California to the Chinese to pay off the debt.

Sounds good to me. High-tech toys like the iPad will be really cheap when the designers have their pay hammered to the level of the manufacturers. I can hardly wait!

Of course, there's always the risk the designers will evaporate before Release 2.

But, lest I be bored, let me contemplate with what grade of toilet paper will the Chi-Coms honor the California public employee pensions! I'll bet that'd be a real knee-slapper! It'd probably be the best argument in favor of communism ever advanced.

141 posted on 03/22/2010 12:16:45 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I think you have a point there. Unless the Dems hadn’t run someone and he had time to swap parties, then perhaps he could swing something. Otherwise, and probably, you are right .


142 posted on 03/22/2010 12:28:06 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (If we as Republicans can't clean up our house, who can or will? Just say no to MeCain(D).)
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To: rabscuttle385; Salamander
Are you saying cap-and-trade isn't as tyrannical as Obamacare?

In respect to being an assault on the very concept of individual liberty I don't think cap-and-trade rises to that level. HCR does and I think that is really its only purpose.

As for McCain's ability or intent to destroy this Republic I don't think he is intelligent enough to see the affect his policies would have, I don't think he has the mal-intent in his heart that 0baMao has and I don't think he is quite clever enough to do what 0bieWonbuttholie did today. Those are my thoughts about him even though IMO he is an extremely skilled Senator.

143 posted on 03/22/2010 12:47:37 AM PDT by TigersEye (It's the Marxism, stupid! ... And they call themselves Progressives.)
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To: Indy Pendance

It’s just for show. Remember that this is a club and as much as the pubes might come off as being genuine, they want to continue to country club life style they have in congress. The Republican party is broke and as Boner said his speech, they pubes have helped to destroy congress.


144 posted on 03/22/2010 2:17:57 AM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL (Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
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To: beckysueb
Oh yeah, thats it. Blame Bush. How about blame all the dumb asses who voted for Obama?!

Not only that but people have lost sight of just how long Pelosi, Reid and Franks (and their liberal-minded ilk) have been in power. Add a soclialist President to the pot and this is what you get. Now we have a gazillion illegals in this country who will get free healthcare and I have to pay for it along with my own family coverage. S-rew who's fault it is. OUR GOVERNMENT HAS FAILED US!

145 posted on 03/22/2010 3:34:45 AM PDT by beachn4fun (Want real change? Vote out Pelosi, Reid and Franks!)
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To: beckysueb
Oh yeah, thats it. Blame Bush. How about blame all the dumb asses who voted for Obama?!

Why did that happen?

Perhaps everyone was tired of being urinated on by the GOP, and their poor choices to run in the 2008 elections. There wasn't a GOP single candidate who was worth considering.

Cripes, Ron Paul was up against Mcstain in the primaries. Obama was practically running against Mcstain's VP nominee (Palin). That's how bad it was.

146 posted on 03/22/2010 4:01:54 AM PDT by Sarajevo (You're jealous because the voices only talk to me.)
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To: Sarajevo

No one can tell me that if any of the Republicans that were running had won the election, that we would be facing what we are facing today. Not a one of them would have done this. We are waiting for perfection and since Ronald Reagan left office, that doesn’t exist.


147 posted on 03/22/2010 4:29:19 AM PDT by beckysueb (January 20, 2013. When Obama becomes just a skidmark on the panties of American history.)
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To: DontTreadOnMe2009

“Why do the President’s daughters both have RUSSIAN names ????????????”

Putin won the coin toss.


148 posted on 03/22/2010 4:57:33 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINOS)
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To: beckysueb
No one can tell me that if any of the Republicans that were running had won the election, that we would be facing what we are facing today.

That's almost funny. If Mcstain would have won, we'd be facing much of the same, and hoping that he would have a heart attack so Palin would take over.

149 posted on 03/22/2010 5:03:29 AM PDT by Sarajevo (You're jealous because the voices only talk to me.)
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To: beckysueb

Exactly.


150 posted on 03/22/2010 5:03:43 AM PDT by BlueAngel
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To: americanophile

Blame Columbus for 1492.


151 posted on 03/22/2010 5:09:03 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
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To: freedumb2003

Blame General Electric for making Ronald Reagan their spokesman.


152 posted on 03/22/2010 5:15:25 AM PDT by Peter W. Kessler (Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
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To: DoughtyOne

“In 2008, we were screwed no matter what we did.”

The day McCain was selected is the day we lost the election.


153 posted on 03/22/2010 5:16:03 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINOS)
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To: Jewels1091
"temper tantrum"

Agree. Too many conservatives take their baseball bat and go home if everything isn't exactly to their liking. The grim truth: no politician will ever be one hundred percent to anyone's liking. Not even Reagan who was attacked by a number of "conservative" elites i.e. Grover Norquist, while president.

154 posted on 03/22/2010 5:31:35 AM PDT by driftless2 (for long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: reader25

“It is time for the silent majority to become the driving force in this country again.”

For a candidate to receive my vote they must believe in the Constitution (States Rights), believe in small government that gets out of the way of the people and they must not believe that they are above the people but must believe that they work for the people.

In other words if their agenda is anything but Strict Constructionist on the Constitution they can take a hike.

PS: I never fail to get in someones face especially a liberal who hates this country or a Conservative who IMHO can’t see the big picture. I also think that what you wrote is a very good plan for winning.


155 posted on 03/22/2010 6:01:45 AM PDT by A Strict Constructionist (The Constitution is the issue, other issues are small potatoes. If we fail none will matter.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Yep, and possibly the nation...

People will now either wake up or lose their national heredity.

That was the sad choice I chose to present to my fellow citizens in November of 2008. Either shock them into response soon enough to revive them and thereby the nation, or let them die to loyalty and national pride altogether and watch the end come straight away.

This November looms large. Either it will have worked, or it won’t. Either way our nation was dying by bits anyway.

It’s my hope that the Republicans will get a veto proof majority out of this election.


156 posted on 03/22/2010 8:58:32 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (If we as Republicans can't clean up our house, who can or will? Just say no to MeCain(D).)
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To: Terpfen

Apparently you have.

Domestically he was terrible, and helped lead us to where we are today.

Live it. Eat it. Breath it. IT’s the truth.


157 posted on 03/22/2010 9:57:07 AM PDT by CommieCutter ("You wanted the presidency, you got it, now FIX THE DAMN ECONOMY!!!!" ----YankeeReb)
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To: dfwgator

Reagan picked Bush Sr, not Bush Jr. Duh.


158 posted on 03/22/2010 9:58:18 AM PDT by AlanD
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To: AlanD

Would Bush Jr. been President had Bush Sr. not? And would Bush Sr. ever been President had he not been VP?


159 posted on 03/22/2010 9:59:07 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: ejdrapes

Obama was elected because of the sanctimonious selfrightousists bush bashers.

The blame is on conservative turncoats that can’t accept any thing but christlike perfection that will never be.


160 posted on 03/22/2010 10:04:31 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Ostracize Democrats. There can be no Democrat friends.)
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