C By ThinkProgress War Room on Jun 29, 2012 at 5:35 pm
GOP in Disarray After Obamacare Ruling Aside from launching a new false attack on the law (which also happens to be an attack on Mitt Romney) and promising to vote one more time on repealing the law, Republicans don’t quite know what to do. Some of them even openly admit that the GOP has no plan whatsoever.
They know that the Supreme Court-endorsed individual mandate is not popular, but they also know that many other provisions of the law are wildly popular — even among Republicans. This obstacle — how to replace Obamacare with something that will actually work and doesn’t look just like Obamacare — is one of the reasons they never managed to put forward a serious “replace” following repeal.
Here’s six questions Republicans need to answer.
Now that the Supreme Court has ruled Obamacare constitutional, will you continue to obsess over repealing it or will you focus on working with Democrats to pass legislation to create jobs? Will you force the 3.1 million young people who have health coverage as a result of Obamacare off of their parents’ insurance? Will you tell cancer patients and others with pre-existing conditions that they are on their own, like Republican senate candidate Richard Mourdock and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) did? Will you throw seniors back into the Medicare prescription drug donut hole, raising their prescription drugs costs by billions of dollars each year? Will you let insurance companies go back to spending less than 80 percent of premiums on actual medical care instead of overheard, advertising and profits? Since you are now saying the Obamacare individual mandate makes President Obama a tax raiser, doesn’t that mean Mitt Romney raised taxes on Massachusetts residents when he signed the Romneycare mandate into law?
Posted by CashCowMoo on :
"GOP in Disarray After Obamacare Ruling"
Far from it, they are more energized than ever. You will see in November. Obama is not winning this election again. I have talked to countless independents, and Republicans who voted for Obama in 2008 who regret it. Also, certain demographic groups will not show up in mass to vote again either. The economy did not do what they promised if we spent trillions on stimulus and health care laws. Gay marriage? Have you seen the black pastoral groups lashing out at Obama? Numerous Democrat politicians cancelling their appearance at the DNC convention with more to come. There are a lot of Democrats who are right on the edge of losing their seats and being associated with this President is going to ensure their loss.
When Obama loses, you will be on here crying racism.
Posted by T e x on :
quote:Originally posted by CashCowMoo: "GOP in Disarray After Obamacare Ruling"
Far from it, they are more energized than ever. You will see in November. Obama is not winning this election again. I have talked to countless independents, and Republicans who voted for Obama in 2008 who regret it. Also, certain demographic groups will not show up in mass to vote again either. The economy did not do what they promised if we spent trillions on stimulus and health care laws. Gay marriage? Have you seen the black pastoral groups lashing out at Obama? Numerous Democrat politicians cancelling their appearance at the DNC convention with more to come. There are a lot of Democrats who are right on the edge of losing their seats and being associated with this President is going to ensure their loss.
When Obama loses, you will be on here crying racism.
Posted by T e x on :
As from Bastille, "NUTS!"
Yeah, I agree that overall, through time, you'll see not a dime's difference regardless of the ruling party.
That being said, in *this* election, it's best to go with the Democrats.
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