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scream-of-consciousness; "If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what the hell."
Friday, June 19, 2015
Stupid is as .....
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6 comments:
- Skoonj said...
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RINOs are retromingents, as the artwork, above, shows. I expect nothing that requires a brain from them.
- 6/19/15, 10:29 AM
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Lobbyists are pushing both parties to keep this. Big Corporations were able to offload pensions for 401K's and the second biggest cost is health insurance. If the SCOTUS decides against it the Republicans will help retool it under the guise of we couldn't just leave all those depending on it without health care. The truth is they have and have always had health care but not health insurance.
- 6/19/15, 11:17 AM
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Elections are won at the margins, by the voters who may tend one way or the other. If you were a Republican and wanted to get re-elected you have to appeal to the margins, since you already have the base. The people on the margins kind of like the idea of Obamacare and don't care about the reality. Therefore the law (like nearly all) will never be repealed.
Luigi - 6/19/15, 4:23 PM
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Ah, Luigi, that's Rovian theory.
The Repubs may not realize it, but they no longer have "the base". Four million Repubs failed to show in the 2012 presidential election compared to 2008, and I do believe that the RINOS' lack of gratitude for the gift of the House and Senate from conservatives, evidenced by their continuing enabling Uhbama, that many more will not show up in 2016 if they nominate another gray RINO.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick - 6/19/15, 7:03 PM
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Problem is that Obamacare has screwed up the health insurance market so badly that simply repealing it isn't an option.
BTW, the specific language re subsidies for state exchanges was in virtually every draft of the bill and was re-inserted at the last minute before being sent out for a vote. It was not a mistake. As you point out, even Gruber has gone on record as saying it was intentional.
Now the Supreme Court's job is (or at least is supposed to be) to interpret the law as written and not to determine "intent". Fact is the law, as written is stupid but it's not absurd so they can't throw it out on those grounds. The wording is clear so there is no ambiguity they can play with. And, given it's history it's not a scrivener's error (i.e., a typo).
Of course, given the mental gymnastics that they had to go thru to find Obamacare constitutional there is no predicting the outcome but "them's the facts"
. - 6/19/15, 7:05 PM
- Skoonj said...
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Each state can open its own insurance market. They can also allow insurance from other states to be bought, which was a serious shortcoming before. Obamacare will be fast and easy to replace.
- 6/19/15, 8:39 PM