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Obamacare is a massive failure and meets all the commonly accepted definitions of a failure. Just because, maybe, "something needed to be done" about health /insurance care in this country when polls in 2009-10 showed that over 80-85% of people were satisfied with their health care situation, doesn't mean this particular law works well or works even adequately. In fact, it is looking more and more that it is continually doing more harm than good,.... to health care itself, the medical industry, health insurance and the overall economy. In November it is going to do more harm then good to the Democrats. And it looks like a lot more harm than good to them. AND perhaps, most importantly, it has given the death knell to any large scale expansion of the social welfare state for at least a generation.

One definition of a "progressive attitude" can be admitting one has made a mistake and then "progressing" to a correct solution.

"All change is not growth (or progress), as all movement is not forward."

Ellen Glascow

1 posted on 04/06/2014 8:39:41 AM PDT by ReaganÜberAlles
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To: ReaganÃœberAlles
One definition of a "progressive attitude" can be admitting one has made a mistake and then "progressing" to a correct solution.

More accurately if a "progressive" policy fails, it can only be because they didn't do enough of it and need to expand the scope...

2 posted on 04/06/2014 8:42:59 AM PDT by null and void (I don't mind getting older, but I hate wearing out!)
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To: ReaganÃœberAlles

Obama in 2014...Floorward!!

Thank you!!


3 posted on 04/06/2014 8:43:36 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: ReaganÃœberAlles

When in all of recorded history has a “progressive” -under whatever name- admitted that their policy was flawed?


4 posted on 04/06/2014 8:45:20 AM PDT by null and void (I don't mind getting older, but I hate wearing out!)
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To: ReaganÃœberAlles

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5 posted on 04/06/2014 8:45:38 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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To: ReaganÃœberAlles

All this being true I have zero expectation it will truly be rolled back.

GOP will pickup seats in midterm but a veto proof majority it won’t have so Obamacare will stay.

After the next presidential election a compromise bill that makes substantial changes will be passed, it will be hailed as a “repeal” but it won’t be.


7 posted on 04/06/2014 8:46:31 AM PDT by wonkowasright (Wonko from outside the asylum)
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To: ReaganÃœberAlles
Tsunami? Don't make me laugh.Osama Obama could have been...*would* have been...the main casualty of a "tsunami" in 2012 had it not been for millions of true believers who were convinced that Mitt Romney was very bit as much a Commie atheist as is Osama and,as a result,spent Election Day 2012 doing an inventory of their ammo and food supplies.A good number of them can be seen posting right here on FR (you know who you are).

Ten bucks says the very same thing happens this November.

12 posted on 04/06/2014 9:01:11 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Stalin Blamed The Kulaks,Obama Blames The Tea Party)
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To: ReaganÃœberAlles

very bit = every bit


14 posted on 04/06/2014 9:03:18 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Stalin Blamed The Kulaks,Obama Blames The Tea Party)
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To: ReaganÃœberAlles; All
Thank you for referencing that article ReaganÜberAlles. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

Even if Obamacare Democratcare was a major success, it remains that Constitution-ignoring Democrats wrongly established Democratcare outside the framework of the Constitution like Democrats and RINOs have been doing with most everything else for the last 60+ years.

18 posted on 04/06/2014 9:10:16 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: ReaganÃœberAlles

I think one common thread Republicans should jump on is that all politics are NOT local. The Dems are merely trying to get another vote for their national agenda, one more party vote in D.C. just as they did for Obamacare. And once they get that vote it’s for six years and they could give a flying whatever what their constituents think for five of those years. They’ve nationalized Congress, something that needs to be undone.

Another winning issue for pubs would be to keep our Internet free. I don’t know where they are on this but they’d better get their sorry butts on keeping the Internet before it’s too late.


38 posted on 04/06/2014 9:34:44 AM PDT by Kenny
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To: ReaganÃœberAlles

There’s a famous line in a stupid movie, namely:

“Being a Democrat means you never have to say you are sorry.”

Or something like that.


54 posted on 04/06/2014 11:19:06 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: ReaganÃœberAlles

Tsunami? We’ll be lucky to keep the House.

Watched a few minutes if SNL last night. They did their usual Fox News Morning Show parody. The topic was the fake 7.1 Million Obamacare Enrollees, with the Fox News Reporters saying Obama missed his “goal” of 7 Million.

Yuk, yuk. No mention of the 6 Million who lost their Insurance. The Fox News guys are stupid and Obama is smart. If he says it, it must be true. The Useful Idiots believe it all. Facts are a mere inconvenience to them.

The Audience laps it up and the Millions watching do as well. These Idiots Vote, and they will Vote in November to protect Mr. Stinkburger’s wonderful Agenda.

As far as the Democrats losing anything, I’ll believe it when I see it. The Propagandist’s will be working overtime to insure the Public is properly educated on the Obama way.

Let’s just say I hope I’m wrong, but I won’t bet a dime either way on the Election outcome.


55 posted on 04/06/2014 11:20:46 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Nobody owes you a living, so shut up and get back to work...)
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To: ReaganÃœberAlles

Here’s an unintended (or NOT) consequence to this that affects even people WITH insurance:

So, my wife schedules to go into a doctor for a (covered for free required) physical. Due to “women’s problems”, my wife called to cancel. “Oh, come in anyway, we’ll work around it” says the office. So, during the visit the doctor pointed out twice that this was not a full physical, twice, which my wife thought was odd. So, we get a $300 bill for the visit, when we were expecting zero. Of course, the deductibles have gone up a lot, so it will be a while (if ever, hopefully) that we actually hit it. I don’t need to tell you that the insurance company pays crap (which she accepted) for a physical.

This doctor has pulled this sort of thing twice; we are done with her and her associates.


64 posted on 04/06/2014 11:58:32 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: ReaganÃœberAlles
more harm than good?

IT'S FREAKING KILLING US!

78 posted on 04/06/2014 3:19:19 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: ReaganÃœberAlles

Poetic irony that the man who promised to lower the sea levels would generate the tsunami that swallowed up his devotees.


82 posted on 04/06/2014 3:57:21 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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