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skip fox

(19,359 posts)
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 11:27 AM Jun 2015

"Why the hell did we ever label it ObamaCare, anyway?" Please come CAPTION Justice Antonin Scalia!!!




Judge Anthony ("What part of 'f*ck you' don't you understand?&quot Scalia is saying: "Listen, upholding the constitutionality of subsidies in the Affordable Care Act is like sanctioning the holocaust or supporting terrorism, giving aid and comfort to this nation's enemies, or bombing day-care centers! . . . Some say I am given to hyperbole, . . . but you tell me that in a couple of months when the hoards are storming the ramparts of civilization!"



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Above CAPTION based on the following DU thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026901316

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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
1. In a few years, Fox News will claim that Obama called it Obamacare out of vanity.
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 11:30 AM
Jun 2015

When it was conservatives who coined "Obamacare" to tie Obama personally to it. (And, boy, do Republicans hate them some Obama...)

still_one

(92,395 posts)
2. WE didn't label it Obamacare, the republicans did, and the MSM took their cue from the republicans
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 11:31 AM
Jun 2015

They did it as a slur, but ironically that will come back to haunt them, and actually seal Obama's legacy

 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
5. Here's what Obama said
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 11:34 AM
Jun 2015

I'm quoting from memory, so this might not be 100 percent accurate. "I'll tell you one thing, once it's working and people like it, the Republicans won't call it Obamacare anymore."

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
10. That is the true origin of "obamacare".
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 11:39 AM
Jun 2015

It was always, and still officially is, Affordable Care Act.
It was refferred to as Obamacare by the GOP since the word 'Obama' is a RW trigger word that ralleys their base to a frenzied hate.
Kinda backfired, I think.


 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
4. Scalia for Emperor!
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 11:33 AM
Jun 2015

Tony the Excitable. His kingdom will consist of the provinces Hyperbole, Angst, Outrage, and the twin provinces of Fear and Loathing.

Johonny

(20,888 posts)
11. A state is a state and not the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services just like
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 11:42 AM
Jun 2015

butter is butter and not margarine. As soon as someone labels margarine butter then we go down the slippery slope to Rick Santorum marrying a dog. You don't want to see that. I don't want to see that. I do, like butter, though. I like it a lot.

skip fox

(19,359 posts)
12. I am well aware of the delightful irony of Republicans using "ObamaCare"
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 11:48 AM
Jun 2015

(probably at the behest of Frank Luntz) and now having that term in currency as the favorability of the Act grows.

It's as though they would have called Social Security "Franklin Delano Roosevelt Social Security" or some such. The Republicans wanted to sink it, but know their worse fears are now realized: it's popular and popularly known by name as part of Obama's legacy. That's precisely what they didn't want, and due to their own intemperance, that's exactly what they got.

Now I'm waiting for Fox to talk about The Affordable Health Care Act, along with the "Democrat Party," "homicide bombers," and all the other travesties of language they have promoted.

 

The Second Stone

(2,900 posts)
14. Antonin is his first name, not Anthony
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 12:46 PM
Jun 2015

and he's a run of the mill idiot lawyer. I've got to say, I do like his poison pen ramblings, but they have nothing to do with being a judge or lawyer.

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