Posted on 07/09/2012 7:35:51 PM PDT by MindBender26
Part One: The Opportunity
The Political Cudgel--and the Embedded Nail
The Supreme Court’s Obamacare-affirming decision--which can be summed up as “Read John Roberts’ lips, it’s a tax”--has put a political cudgel in the hands of Republicans. The cudgel, of course, is taxes. But a huge nail is also embedded in the cudgel: the fundamental deceit of Obamacare. Yet in the week since the Court’s decision, Republicans have yet to demonstrate that they truly grasp the significance of this weapon--or that they can effectively wield it.
Why? Some Republicans are worried that the fight over Obamacare distracts from the issue of the economy. What these Republicans fail to realize is that healthcare and the economy are inextricably linked; Americans now realize that Obamacare was a detour on the road to economic recovery, so to remind them of one is to remind them of the other. And the two issues, compounded, are all the more powerful.
Other Republicans believe that the healthcare battle has been lost, that Obamacare is just another permanent ratcheting of the welfare state. What these Republicans fail to see is that the “ObamaTax” issue provides an opportunity to reignite healthcare into the white-hot issue that it was in 2010. And if the 2012 elections were to be a repeat of 2010, huge changes in the status quo would be not only possible, but inevitable.
This November, if President Obama goes before the voters on the defensive--that is, on a rickety platform of defending Obamacare as a tax increase--it is he who has a huge problem.
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Caddell has always hit me as being an honest broker. He is disgusted with the thugcracy of O and his goons. That is always very apparent
It is all about the economy. ObamaCare makes hiring new people more expensive and kills jobs. Cash-for-Clunkers siphoned money out of the economy and killed jobs. Stimulus increased the national debt dramatically, increasing uncertainty and killing jobs. TARP and the multiple "green" energy company scandals also wasted massive amounts of money, simultaneously making it clear that we don't have a level playing field. We have winners and losers picked based on connections, not on the quality of their goods and services. The uncertainty of crony capitalism is killing real jobs. The economy is not an isolated term that can only be discussed in a NASA clean room, away from even a spec of reality. The economy is central to every stupid, corrupt, and destructive move the Obama Administration has made over the past four years.
Caddell didn’t get the memo......Now that ObamaCare has been “upheld”....the RinoCrats don’t need Romney waiting in the wings. He can go home now.
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