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Koterba toon: Affordable Care Act (Original Post) Omaha Steve Oct 2016 OP
I suppose you know that other successful social programs also got off to a bumpy start Hekate Oct 2016 #1
Obama had a Democratic majority in the Senate and House.... PoliticAverse Oct 2016 #2
I fault Obama for trusting Republicans. PdxSean Oct 2016 #3
Gosh, that's a stumper gratuitous Oct 2016 #4
My Bad Omaha Steve Oct 2016 #5

Hekate

(90,714 posts)
1. I suppose you know that other successful social programs also got off to a bumpy start
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 05:22 PM
Oct 2016

I suppose you also know that Hillary Derangement Syndrome started with her trying to get a health care act past Newt Gingrich on behalf of President Bill Clinton.

Moving on to the present: There is still a lot of work to be done on the ACA. It starts with giving Hillary Clinton a Democratic majority in the Senate and the House, something we failed to do for President Obama.

PdxSean

(574 posts)
3. I fault Obama for trusting Republicans.
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 06:22 PM
Oct 2016

Well said, PoliticAverse. Democrats were too wimpy when they had both chambers. They should have taken several pages from the Republican playbook and said fuck compromise. Instead, Democrats cowered when Republicans so much as whispered "filibuster." Republicans took an oath to obstruct Obama at every turn, no matter what the cost to the country; for once, they stayed true to their word.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
4. Gosh, that's a stumper
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 07:07 PM
Oct 2016

Did Blue Shield leave Nebraska because of the ACA, or because Nebraska refused to join in Medicare expansion?

Think, think.

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