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This Democrat Is Giving Up on ObamaCare
Wall Street Journal ^ | 11/13/14 | Burke Beu

Posted on 11/14/2014 6:48:59 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

The disastrous rollout of the Affordable Care Act was the catalyst for my party’s midterm thumping.

....I have been a registered Democrat since age 18, a Democratic candidate for statewide office in Colorado and a party precinct captain in that caucus state. I’ve volunteered for numerous Democratic candidates and contributed to party causes and campaigns.....

ObamaCare is a failure. For anyone who thinks this is a misprint because no Democratic activist would make such a comment, let me add that it is too big, too complicated and too expensive.

(Excerpt) Read more at m.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: albatross; deathpanels; health; obamafail
Ha. Make Demon Rats OWN IT.

Someone alert Debbie Blabbermouth Schmuck.....some of the cultists are trying to flee the compound. Heretics.

1 posted on 11/14/2014 6:48:59 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Let me propose something to dear Burke...

If the STATED goals of Obamacare could have been accomplished without the huge takeover and the accompanying fiasco and misery imposed on the populace,

could it be possible that the ACTUAL goals were the takeover, the fiasco, and the misery,

and the STATED goals were simply an excuse or way of selling it?

After Gruber’s revelations, how can you deny that this might actually be the case?


2 posted on 11/14/2014 6:52:48 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: SoFloFreeper

It is not just a failure, it is a disaster. It wasted billions of dollars!


3 posted on 11/14/2014 6:53:27 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I am of the opinion that these are “controlled leaks” - the word we’re getting from our selected leaders is that there will be NO opposition to Obola’s plans come January.


4 posted on 11/14/2014 6:56:16 AM PST by Old Sarge (TINVOWOOT: There Is No Voting Our Way Out Of This)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I was expecting this to be written by someone important. As far as I can tell, the guy is a complete nobody. And he only wants to get rid of it so it can be replaced by single payer. This isn’t exactly someone who’s seen the light.


5 posted on 11/14/2014 7:01:14 AM PST by Poison Pill
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To: MrB

I cannot really understand just how anyone with one eye open and a thimbleful of brains could have ever imagined that the PPACA was anything but a planned disaster. To imagine that the federal government could actually improve on health care by writing two thousand pages of regulations is so absurd that anyone who believed it should be writing letters to the Great Pumpkin and that is if they could actually write. I would expect anyone who is really that brain damaged to sit in a corner blowing spit bubbles and moaning. Let me add that my comment is not meant to be overstatement or exaggeration, I mean it literally.


6 posted on 11/14/2014 7:06:48 AM PST by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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To: Poison Pill

Did you even read the article? Here is what he concludes:

“The people decided otherwise on Election Day. I hope my party is listening. When the next Congress convenes in 2015, Democrats need to work with the new Republican majority, repeal ObamaCare, override a presidential veto if necessary, and start from scratch on health-care reform.”

Hardly an endorsement of single payer.


7 posted on 11/14/2014 7:08:21 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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Donate And Keep The Lights On


8 posted on 11/14/2014 7:09:21 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: SoFloFreeper

ObamaCare is a failure

NO IT IS NOT, It is working exactly as it was intended to. You were just too damned stupid and gullible to realize it then, and you still are, for refusing to Admit it. Stop calling it a FAILURE, THIS WAS INTENTIONAL.


9 posted on 11/14/2014 7:11:03 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: SoFloFreeper; MeshugeMikey

One down, 150,000,000 to go.

(image borrowed from MeshugeMikey)


10 posted on 11/14/2014 7:11:12 AM PST by Iron Munro (DHS has the same headcount as the US Marine Corps with twice the budget)
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To: Iron Munro

Now we know who Obie was talking to on the Royal Phone....


11 posted on 11/14/2014 7:16:09 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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To: SoFloFreeper

If Obama had absolute power, like most socialist nations, this man would be first sent to the gulags or reeducation camps.


12 posted on 11/14/2014 7:20:44 AM PST by Erik Latranyi
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To: SoFloFreeper

I’m afraid that if the Democrats get too many of these people awakening and abandoning their ship, it would not surprise me if they went Jim Jones on America! I mean, Nazi Pelosi and Dirty Harry Reid both look like they are closer to insanity than genius!

Actually, I think that is why they have been fomenting so much hate and unrest in the minority communities! The Democrats are hoping and TRYING to create something to actually start armed conflict - to FURTHER their BullSnot about white racism in America!

Just like they did with Kent, the news will show ALL the dead, injured, and arrested minorities, but will obscure, minimize, and ignore the dead and injured cops/majority! They will be compliant with anything which the Democrats create!

I don’t think they want to create conflict to stop elections or declare martial law - even our current Imperial President Obama KNOWS that there are more than enough people upset and ready to fight back against his agenda, the “Big Government: agenda, and Federalism and all the alphabet agencies! And he knows that most Americans don’t like anyone who is pushing these, not Democrats nor Republicans! So, I don’t think they are trying to actually start CWII, but I do think they are trying to create something...anything, with which to rally their troops, prop-up their memes, and give them ammo!

The problem with Democrats and their agenda and ideas is that you can only sell shit for so long, before someone, maybe even your best customer, realizes they have been eating SHIT!


13 posted on 11/14/2014 7:26:31 AM PST by ExTxMarine (PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
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To: Iron Munro

Crack that whip!


14 posted on 11/14/2014 7:37:07 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: SoFloFreeper
After watching their colleagues who voted for this monstrosity get washed away in an electoral wave, watch for Senate Democrats to start to get wobbly when it comes to ObamaCare
15 posted on 11/14/2014 7:38:20 AM PST by LMAO (("Begging hands and Bleeding hearts will only cry out for more"...Anthem from Rush))
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To: MrB

You’re seeing behind the curtain...


16 posted on 11/14/2014 7:56:51 AM PST by GOPJ (The New York Times is one big fat collection of Jonathan Gruber s...)
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To: RipSawyer

-— . To imagine that the federal government could actually improve on health care by writing two thousand pages of regulations is so absurd that anyone who believed it should be writing letters to the Great Pumpkin -—

A significant number of people have no understanding of how markets work, and why they are better at producing goods and services than a command economy.

If I was a billionaire, I’d give “Free to Choose” to every high school graduate.


17 posted on 11/14/2014 8:04:20 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Run, Rats, Run!
Run, Run, Run!
See all the little Rats run?
Old and young and gay ones.
State and House and Senate ones.
See all the Sorry, Sorry Rats?


18 posted on 11/14/2014 8:40:36 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SoFloFreeper

Sounds like a Greek play where the protagonist wakes to the fact that everything he believed was a lie.


19 posted on 11/14/2014 9:42:18 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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