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Confronted With Example Of Obamacare Success, GOP Rep Freaks Out (Original Post) ashling Oct 2013 OP
And there you have it.... mikki35 Oct 2013 #1
Well Said, Mikki! cer7711 Oct 2013 #2
I third it! dsteve01 Oct 2013 #16
This is all they have? KansDem Oct 2013 #3
They're just desperately hoping their denial will somehow stick to the wall... Amonester Oct 2013 #12
Send 'em a shovel and volunteer to help. IrishAyes Oct 2013 #15
And I'll be more than happy to throw them that rope, too. IrishAyes Oct 2013 #13
Great,...so the House is going to hold hearings to find out who to blame? Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2013 #4
Well, we've already heard their decision on that even before they try to impeach the President. IrishAyes Oct 2013 #17
And Rethugs wonder why the majority don't like them.... blackspade Oct 2013 #5
Their talking point never changes: "It's a failure." nyquil_man Oct 2013 #6
She is my representative & I just called her office to say "I love Obamacare" loudsue Oct 2013 #7
3 Large Rethug Lies: 1. We want what is best for our state. 2. This is a failure. 3. Kentucky and drynberg Oct 2013 #8
She must be pretty sure of that. IrishAyes Oct 2013 #14
THE GOP has drunk the TED CRUZ KOOL AIDE.... yuiyoshida Oct 2013 #9
some states have ordered insurance companies to blame their rate increases on aca leftyohiolib Oct 2013 #10
And didn't FL come up with some rule that makes their residents wait an extra year or two? IrishAyes Oct 2013 #18
idk about that but florida is one of the states to which i was refering leftyohiolib Oct 2013 #21
Oh. Thanks. IrishAyes Oct 2013 #22
"Freaks out"? PlainJane1 Oct 2013 #11
The state systems are simpler and smaller IronLionZion Oct 2013 #19
She won election by 1,483 votes IronLionZion Oct 2013 #20

mikki35

(111 posts)
1. And there you have it....
Tue Oct 22, 2013, 12:47 PM
Oct 2013

in blazing technicolor - the Repugnican attitude of just plain blanket denial, refusal to even begin to see how her attitude is causing real harm not only to her constituents, but the entire country. She will not ever, ever, ever admit that she is just plain WRONG. She needs her epistemic bubble closure popped, but good. Wish I knew how to do it. I would give a lot to see politicians that actually gave a damn about anything but their own ideological obsessions, yaknow, like the PEOPLE they're supposed to be representing???

cer7711

(502 posts)
2. Well Said, Mikki!
Tue Oct 22, 2013, 12:51 PM
Oct 2013

You started us off very well indeed; I heartily concur with everything you said here. Moreover, love the way you said it!

KansDem

(28,498 posts)
3. This is all they have?
Tue Oct 22, 2013, 01:03 PM
Oct 2013

I didn't hear a single idea from the GOP Rep. about how all Americans could have affordable health care. All she did was criticize what the Gov. said but offered no new ideas.

Then I realized this is what GOPers do: bitch and moan, bitch and moan. Repubs will bitch and moan about the rope they're hung with...

Amonester

(11,541 posts)
12. They're just desperately hoping their denial will somehow stick to the wall...
Tue Oct 22, 2013, 04:30 PM
Oct 2013

so they will 'gain' something out of it, like some sort of a majority out of it.

What they don't realize is, each time they get their opportunist faces on any screen - except FAUX snooze - not only they don't get their opportunist-aimed talking points to stick to that wall of theirs, they just lose more support as they're being judged to be more unfit to govern anything else than their own personal bank accounts!

Let them keep on digging deeper each day, I say!

IrishAyes

(6,151 posts)
17. Well, we've already heard their decision on that even before they try to impeach the President.
Tue Oct 22, 2013, 05:02 PM
Oct 2013

God help them if they ever do go that far. The sight of that man in the dock, bearing their abuse with dignity, will do as much to change the social attitude of this country as the Selma march did. For the younger among us who might have avoided history in school, most sociologists and historians will tell you that marked a huge turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. Some flat out racists said point blank that it was the single event that opened their eyes, even if they remained half closed.

Now try even harder than you have before, GOPers, to crucify the man you hate but so many others love like a son or brother. See where it gets you.

No, I wouldn't make book on the GOP firing another shot to their own head (they don't have a heart to worry about) but you know that's their deepest desire, impeachment. Who knows what a besotted crowd like they are will actually try next. I'd bet MY house that Cruz'in Fura Bruisin' would crawl naked over broken glass for the chance.

blackspade

(10,056 posts)
5. And Rethugs wonder why the majority don't like them....
Tue Oct 22, 2013, 01:36 PM
Oct 2013

It's getting bad for them when the media shills are feeling bold enough to start calling them on their shit.

nyquil_man

(1,443 posts)
6. Their talking point never changes: "It's a failure."
Tue Oct 22, 2013, 01:37 PM
Oct 2013

It's been that way for four years.

They've had four years to craft an alternative. What is it? Tort reform?

Ask them what their alternative is and watch the tumbleweeds roll by.

loudsue

(14,087 posts)
7. She is my representative & I just called her office to say "I love Obamacare"
Tue Oct 22, 2013, 01:51 PM
Oct 2013

and that she needs to stay off the news shows talking junk about it. Her little toady said that "she ran and won on trying to appeal Obamacare, so she is merely doing what she promised. Sorry you don't like it, but she represents the overwhelming majority of North Carolinians who support repeal."

A short argument ensued, but the guy was drunk on his own kool-aid, so I hung up.

drynberg

(1,648 posts)
8. 3 Large Rethug Lies: 1. We want what is best for our state. 2. This is a failure. 3. Kentucky and
Tue Oct 22, 2013, 02:48 PM
Oct 2013

other states with successful health care insurance connections are not to be believed. These 3 lies just get repeated time and again, as the truth is to be avoided at all costs. Now, what is this Tar Heel saying about those in her state that voted for her? That they can't see her lies or even think?

yuiyoshida

(41,832 posts)
9. THE GOP has drunk the TED CRUZ KOOL AIDE....
Tue Oct 22, 2013, 03:35 PM
Oct 2013

AND now ...well it reminds me of the Ignorant FARMER WHO went to the ZOO and saw a Giraffe.... shook his head and said... THAT'S NOT REAL, and NOTHING WILL make me think Differently.

PlainJane1

(8 posts)
11. "Freaks out"?
Tue Oct 22, 2013, 03:52 PM
Oct 2013

Kentucky should share their website with the rest of the country. People need to be able to access healthcare.

That said...where is the "freak out"?

IronLionZion

(45,455 posts)
19. The state systems are simpler and smaller
Tue Oct 22, 2013, 06:20 PM
Oct 2013

since they have to link with companies operating within their state.

The federal one is more complicated than people can understand. There are many different databases connected together to give people options for their home states. And this is affecting mostly red states.

IronLionZion

(45,455 posts)
20. She won election by 1,483 votes
Tue Oct 22, 2013, 06:24 PM
Oct 2013

on a tea party platform.

come on North Carolina, you are better than AR-15 owner Renee Ellmers. If she behaves like this during debates and campaign speeches, she can be beaten by a Dem.

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