Now that Obamacare implementation looms and people are “finding out what is in it” – seeing Obamacare’s destructive nature that may cost them their current coverage (if not their job) – even Democrats’ support for Obamacare has crashed to the point where a majority of them no longer back it.
Even Big Labor hates Obamacare. The AFL-CIO recently slammed it as “highly disruptive” to union workers. The Teamsters said Obamacare will ‘destroy the very health and wellbeing’ of workers. Another union conditionally called for Obamacare to be repealed.
Even Democrat Senators call for key pieces of Obamacare to be delayed. Even Saturday Night Live ridicules the perverse incentives of Obamacare (something I never thought I’d see).
So, why does President Obama keep trying to make it sound like conservatives have bad motives for opposing what everyone knows is a train wreck for America? As he recently said:
Some of them are actually willing to see the United States default…if they can’t deny the basic security of health care to millions of Americans.
Or, from the same speech, this:
And [they]’d be willing to shut down the government and potentially default, for the first time in United States history, because it bothers [them] so much that we’re actually gonna make sure that everybody has affordable health care.
So many falsehoods are packed into two quotes there, that I’m tempted to just say “What a hate-monger!” and stop.
But there’s more. It isn’t just Obama; it’s also his White House, which compares Republicans to murderous enemies of the United States:
…the American people support, by a two-to-one margin, a requirement for spending cuts when negotiating more borrowing authority for the government to pay its bills, according to a new Bloomberg News poll.
The White House “is for cutting spending. We’re for reforming our tax code, for reforming entitlements,” said senior White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer. “What we’re not for is negotiating with people with a bomb strapped to their chest,” he added.
Never mind that the Obama administration is out there supporting (arming) U.S. enemies who literally strap bombs to their chests, in places like Syria.
The Obama crew are fools-or-worse, and they are getting desperate. As Deroy Murdock puts it, “The road away from Obamacare may be treacherous for Republicans…but this is no time to go wobbly.”
The unions will get an Obama waver while the rest of us have to deal with this “wonderful” law. Phooey!
Have yet to meet a lib who can answer the question: “If ObamaCare is so great, why did all the Democrats exempt themselves from it?”
Even Republican congressmen are FOR exempting themselves and their staffers from the provisions of ObamaCare. Why, their staffers just can’t afford to pay that much for insurance and would prefer to keep the insurance they have.
If the House would add an amendment to the continuing resolution requiring that Congress NOT be treated specially, the Ds would have a hard time countering it. But the Rs aren’t against their own special privileges. (In fairness, not one R voted for the Act; the Ds, on the other hand, wrote it and voted for it, and now they don’t want to submit to it?? Yeah, democracy in action, American style.)
Hmmm, “…election have consequences”.
You wanted it.
You bought it.
You deal with it.
The White House “is for cutting spending. We’re for reforming our tax code, for reforming entitlements,”
Really? I see no evidence for that, Mr. Pfeiffer. Care to point any out?