Posted on 12/10/2014 8:11:23 AM PST by tellw
A Washington state Democrat said that Republicans dubbed the Affordable Care Act “Obamacare” so that they could symbolically destroy President Obama when they destroy the bill.
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) said GOPs in Congress are just trying “more of the same game” in efforts to defund and dismantle Obamacare.
“They’ve been trying to discredit it. Tear it apart. Tear it down, repeal it. Whatever you want to do. They’re trying to do it as long as they get rid of healthcare for the American people,” McDermott told MSNBC, branding Obamacare adviser Jonathan Gruber’s comments “careless remarks people make in situations.”
“But the real facts are, it’s working, and the American people know it. And the Republicans are absolutely apoplectic trying to find some way to do the president in, but they can’t do it because it’s a good idea.”
Obamacare working, McDermott argued, “was their fear from the very beginning, that what the president was putting together would work for the American people and then the people would say, gee, the Democrats have delivered what we really need.”
“So they are fighting a losing battle, but you got to give it to them,” he added. “They are stubborn if they’re not very thoughtful.”
The congressman stressed that “no one in this country believes that people shouldn’t be secure when they get sick, that they know they’ll be taken care of, that they won’t be bankrupted by an injury.”
“That question is not the question here. The question has always been whether the president will get credit for doing it. That’s why they called it Obamacare. Because they wanted to call it Obamacare and then destroy it and they could say, well, you see, he wasn’t much of a president anyway.”
The Obama administration and DNC began using the term Obamacare before the last presidential election, saying they wanted to put a positive spin on the word.
In the next Congress, McDermott predicted that Republican lawmakers will purposely “try and drive his numbers down so that people will say he’s a failure.”
“We had the best job numbers last month that you could have. We’ve gone up 330,000 people. The actual wage growth was .4 percent, which is the biggest it’s been in months, in fact in years. And yet they continue to talk about what a failure he is,” he said. “That’s the whole point, is to make him a failure, so that in the 2016 election, they start to say, well, we’ve had a failed presidency, now we got to elect a Republican. That’s what this is all about.”
Yes, Michelle, it IS about our fundamental values.
Yours include forcing everyone into your box where you dictate what they do and what they have,
and ours where we VOLUNTARILY cooperate with one another to achieve our personal, individual aspirations.
If that evil law had any redeeming features, they wouldn’t mind us hanging Obama’s discredited name on that terrible law. As it is, the name and the law are a perfect match - both symbolize the destruction of everything that made America great. CHANGE has arrived, and it’s not pretty.
LOL
McDermott: = DUMB A$$
If so, it fooled Odumbo whose narcissism and ego continues to allow him to embrace the term.
And furthermore, not only is it the crappiest law since Prohibition, they also lied about it time and time again.
Last polls I seem to recollect it was upside down in the high 50s to low 60s!!!
The ACA (or what EVER you want to call it) is garbage and not worth even the effort to argue about!
From now on in American history, assuming we HAVE a future, Obamacare will be the Rosetta Stone of boondoggle...the blueprint for failure and the universally known and used term for anything SO badly designed, deliberately fraudulent, laughably unworkable and patently criminal malfeasance!!!
Destroy the bill it’s illegal for the feds to force people to buy anything.
No Shiite, Sherlock!
The Democrats invented the name “Obamacare” so he’d get the blame instead of the Party.
It seems to be unclear who invented the term Obamacare. Most likely it was the media, for several reasons which I will not go into here.
McDermott is complaining that the Republicans are tying the bill to Obama, as his responsibility. Well, ... he wanted to take credit for it. Biden was caught on-mic telling the President that it was a “big f___ing’ deal.” At this Obama smiled.
Obama never has tried to give anyone else the credit.
The official name of the bill is so self-serving, as well as clumsy and unmemorable, that a shorter name was necessary and almost inevitable.
Note: McDermott is such a loon, that he deserves a nick-name of his own.
Mcdimwit is Seattle’s Pelosi. Ignore him.
I got it! McDermott deserves the nickname McDermatitis, because he is an red itch which needs to be scratched.
Who coined Romneycare?
OK,then...how about CongressVotedToExemptThemselves Care?
Duh, Obola got Alinskied on his own petard.
-PJ
Excellent point and I don’t how he could be.
The saddest thing is the leftists will keep electing him until he dies or no longer wants to run.
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