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In reply to the discussion: Obama says Sanders' supporters helped undermine Obamacare [View all]Hassin Bin Sober
(26,389 posts)... from "good Democrats" - you know, the kind that have a "D" behind their name - like Ben Nelson, who said he would filibuster anything with a public option.
So holy Joe, the guy our conservadems supported when Joe ran against the guy who actually won the Democratic Senate nomination, and "good Democrat" Ben Nelson fucked us over.
By the way. The raw story headline is complete bullshit. Obama is saying Sanders supporters are in the dissatisfied column as it pertains to the unpopularity of the ACA. He's not saying they are a cause of the unpopularity.
In other words, he's correcting the spin that a 46% unfavorable opinion doesn't mean 46% want to repeal the ACA.
It would be funny, if it wasn't so pathetic, that there are people on this very thread glomming on to this bullshit spin because it fits their agenda that Bernie is responsible for everything from the Lindbergh kidnapping all the way to the HRC loss to well known and very unpopular buffoon, Donny Tinyhands Trump.
So here is the relevant quotes. Mea culpas should be posted below. Yeah yeah, I know.... but but but BERNIE!!!!!!!!!
"And the third thing is that the polls whenever you look at polls showing 40 percent are supportive of the law, 40 percent or so are dissatisfied, in the dissatisfied column are a whole bunch of Bernie Sanders supporters who want a single-payer plan. The problem is not that they think its a failure. The problem is that they dont think it went far enough. That it left too many people uncovered, the subsidies were not as rich as they should have been, that there was a way of dealing with prescription drug makers in a way that would drive down those costs. All of those things meant that even after the law was passed, there were still going to be a lot of tough politics."