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Obamacare to cost 20% less then originally thought http://bluenationreview.com/report-obamacare-cost-20-less-thought/?ref=00889
But Republicans predicted Obamacare (shivers…) would ruin our economy. And M and AC believed them! So, there must be something wrong with the numbers. Or M and AC are idiots. And let the poor and weak go to the marketplace and pay for their own damned insurance!
Will the real President Obama please stand up.
'fraid the evidence seems clear at this point: Obama was too cute by half in the conceit that he could use populist rhetoric to get elected (twice) to the presidency, then contradict the rhetoric and "vote his district" by leaving in place, or even growing, the Democratic Party's sympathy for our nation's Economic Royalists. (Dems can be rich, too, but it seems as though these "new money" Dems aren't quite as confident as an "old money" Roosevelt could be under similar circumstances.)
The problem with that common conceit is that voters eventually figure out what you're doing to them. We can see this in Tea Party primary threats to even those who they loved 6 months ago and in Democratic voters who refused to give another term to those who they put in office 6 years ago.
This is the dilemma Mikey Bennet wakes up to every day, and so far he's acting like he can pull off what Obama can barely contain. And Bennet ain't no where near the politician Barack is.
Dear AC. Another day, another small uptick in the RCP average Obama job approval rating. Since November is it's been on a steady march from about 41% to about 46% and would be higher with the dramatic improvement in the Gallup if not held down by a couple of very low outlier's from conservative financial publications. Gallup has moved into positive territory for Obama more often than not in recent days. Is this why you never refer to your formerly beloved RCP anymore? Because it shows that what your side is selling is accomplishing the opposite of what you intended?
RCP average ticked up again since this morning, AC. From 46.1 o 46.2. Just in case you haven't noticed. Yesterday it was 46. A couple of weeks ago 44ish. Your GOTP majority congress RCP approval average is 16.5. It doesn't look like Obama's latest moves and pronouncements are adversely affecting public perception much. Pretty much everybody agrees your majority GOTP congress is composed of a bunch of dicks, though.
If Obummer's fur it, Ahm agin'it:
Christie clarifies comments on measles vaccine, calls for ‘balance’
Because balance means we can quarantine people who don't have Ebola, but we can't make you be safe from a potentially fatal virus that effects 90% of the people who are exposed.
It is called consistency…don't you love that in a politician?
Christie clarifies comments on measles vaccine, calls for ‘balance’
I saw a lot of balance when he was trying to throw someone in jail for having travelled to a country with a disease he was scared of. I guess he'd want vaccinations if it were for ebola. Measles are fine though because he's vaccinated.
I still don't have an answer from his buddy the Modrat about why big O&G shouldn't follow zoning regulations. They (the GOP) are so busy looking for bandaids, their PPD has been dwindling of late. They just don't have time to sit around and make shit up anymore…
This behavior by the GOP is sort of the same thing you see when you throw a fresh bucket of slop to the hogs (take that, Joni) and the rootin' and slobberin' gets going.
Democratic Party post-mortem, Part XCV:
Hate to harp on this, ppl, but these are for my "I told you so" posts in late December, 2016.
Completely agree wth this:
Also that open debate would be good. That and aggressive messaging on Dem policies might make a few more voters aware that the things they support in polls are things Dems support and Rs oppose. Then maybe they'd stop voting for the people who are against what they say they want.
You're giving them too much credi–them being the low info voters. The Repubs just lie and say, no, no it's the dems who want to end Social Security, say, for instance. And voters fall for the lies over and over again.
credit, dang it, where's that preview, Pols???? Huh, huh, huh????
Just because Dems have been letting them get away with it for decades. There is no law of physics or anything else that says only righties can do aggressive messaging that gets through. For decades Dems have accepted that this is a conservative leaning nation and instead of aggressively attacking rightie spin they've been groveling and begging to be seen as almost as conservative as the righties.
Well, now polls show majorities support most progressive policies even if they don't know they're progressive policies and disagree with conservative policies even if they think they like conservatives better. Dems could fix that if they grew a pair. Why should it just work one way?
Whose fault is it that people in some states voted for a minimum wage raise (A Dem policy) and also for the Republican candidate (against minimum wage raise). People also support gay marriage and vote for pols who don't. They support the right to choose and vote for pols who don't. They poll for background checks and recall background check supporters in favor of background check opposers. the list goes on and on.
The GOTP has the balls to staunchly stand by and push their policies no matter how ridiculous, and they attack like pit bulls with never a worry about not looking bi-partisan enough. Once again, there's no law that says only Rs can be tough and aggressive.
exactamundo.
Dems assumed for many years that if a policy made sense and worked that voters would automatically like it. That hasn't been true for a while.
But now we know that even if it is working, R's will lie about it and try to repeal it anyway. Ted Cruz lies about "Obamacare" every time he's asked about it and he will never stop lying about it. He just submitted a repeal law in the senate with 44 co-sponsors.
Should Dems compromise with R's on that?
It is way past time for our guys to respond to the b.s. That includes those who think they're above petty politics and who don't want to insult their friends in congress. They don't see that their "friends" insult us and insult our democracy every frickin' day.
The fact the voters chose progressive policies but rejected Democrats across the nation (the few election highlights for Dems were Progressive winners) shows that the bigtime consultants in DC were complete failures at messaging and strategy – again. They should give back the money they got paid and the candidates who wasted our money on such pitiful campaigns should send it back to us.
Senator Grassley "current Obamacare challenge is ridiculous Grassley's views were first reported by Steven Brill, the author of a recent book on the Affordable Care Act, during an appearance last week on MSNBC. Brill was discussing King v. Burwell, a lawsuit that seeks to cut off tax subsidies that help millions of Americans pay for health insurance in states that opted to have the federal government set up their health exchange rather than doing it themselves. According to Brill, when he asked Grassley about King, the senator initially "didn't even know what the suit was about."
Once Brill explained the suit to Grassley, the senator responded "oh, that's ridiculous. We obviously meant that the subsidies would go to the federal exchange and not just the state exchange," according to Brill.
Nor was Grassley alone in this view. Rather, Brill says that when the suit was filed, he asked "all the Republican staffers" who worked on the bill about this suit, and "they laughed at it."