Posted on 08/03/2012 10:51:30 AM PDT by Hojczyk
When Justice Roberts folded and held the Obamacare law constitutional, he upheld the individual mandate. But he gave us all an individual mandate: To defeat Obama and repeal this horrible law!
But the Romney campaign — and the Super PACs — have not put this issue in play against Obama. We need an avalanche of ads explaining how the health care law will force rationing of medical services, worsen the shortage of doctors, tax young people out of one month’s income, and raise all of our health care premiums.
Since everybody knows the law has passed but many don’t realize that it has not yet taken effect, a lot of voters regard the predicted harms from the new law as matters of conjecture and wonder if they are real or not. By 2014, they will know darn well that they are real but it will be too late to do anything about it.
Voters still oppose the health care law by the same 39-54 margin (Rasmussen) that they always have. But it is muted by the absence of public discussion. Romney has done well in making the economy the issue, but has not made Obamacare a second national focus.
His supporters — both those with checkbooks and those without — need to rally to bring this issue front and center to our politics as the presidential campaign enters its final stage. Justice Roberts gave us a gift as well as a challenge when he put the issue squarely before the voters in the fall elections. Whether he was right or wrong to leave the heavy lifting to us, we must rise to the occasion and beat this law.
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The fact that he is not doing this confirms the fears of many FReepers that Romney is a closet Obamacare fan.
That is how I would be playing it....
“It’s the economy, stupid.”
Obamacare IS the economy.
“The fact that he is not doing this confirms the fears of many FReepers that Romney is a closet Obamacare fan.”
Large corporations want to dump paying for employee medical benefits just as they dumped defined benefit pension plans in the 1990’s. Romney, McConnell, and Boehner serve Wall Street, not the public. They will at best “tinker” with Obamacare and declare victory.
I think Romney, aided by a GOP Congress, probably does more long term damage to America than Obama, opposed by a GOP Congress, can do in four more years.
“I think Romney, aided by a GOP Congress, probably does more long term damage to America than Obama, opposed by a GOP Congress, can do in four more years.”
It seems likely there will be a major 2008 type of financial collapse (or worse) early in 2013 which may result in a financial depression for several years. If Romney is the new President he will be blamed and a liberal Democrat will be elected in 2016. By then demographics will almost ensure victory of an entitlement minded president for a number of decades.
If Obama is reelected, and the collapse happens, Obama will lose any credibility and quickly become a lame duck fighting a Republican Congress. There is the risk he will use the crisis to suspend the Constitution (temporarily of course) and rule as a dictator. A year later he can call a Constitutional Convention dominated by carefully selected academics, union leaders, and Democrat politicians. They will present an improved Constitution written by 21st Century men for the 21st Century. The transformation to the utopian progressive state will be complete.
After all, who will stop him — John Boehner and Mitch McConnell?
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