"I can guarantee you this...."

[babylonsister]

[sheshe2]

1. Kick to the Greatest Page!

[silverweb]

2. Yeah, but WE WILL!

[Cha]

4. Forever!

And, ever!

[silverweb]

7. And ever!

[quakerboy]

10. Indeed

Whatever results happen, its firmly labeled as Obamacare. Hopefully that bites em in the ass but good.

The down side is that any parts that the other side manages to break, for instance issues with people making sub-subsidy wages in states that decline medicaid funding also continue to bear the name.

But I suspect the name is stuck no matter how they try to twist and spin. And spin they will.

[1StrongBlackMan]

11. I'm going on a picnis this weekend ...

the weatherman said it was going to be a wonderful weekend, sunshiny and warm ... but it might be a little windy.

[JI7]

12. yup, never let them forget it

[Cha]

3. Glad somebody made that quote into a graphic, babylonsistah!

Thank you!

[IrishAyes]

5. Bee-yoo-ti-ful...

I've always said the rethugs will try to rebrand it as their own and brag about how they 'saved' the country from Obamacare. Shameless hypocrites, the whole lot. Looks like it might cost them the midterms, too.

[freshwest]

6. Epic photo, good for any meme. Thanks, babylonsister. Love all these.

The 'Left Behind' crew of the GOP is still banging their heads on the wall.

It must be a resonant frequency event. They're all thick as bricks.

Sadly, there's no cure, but at least under the ACA it'll be treated as a pre-existing condition.

[sheshe2]

8. The Crew are Sinking~~~~

[BlancheSplanchnik]

9. that is soooo true!

They'll be revving up their noise machine and having their closed-loop idiots believing their rewrite.

[BlueStreak]

13. He's trying to sell it, and I applaud that

I don't really agree with the strategy of laying low for 2 years until right before the exchanges open up, but maybe that is the best strategy.

But there is a huge exposure here. We have a majorly f%%%ed up health care system and the ACA mainly addresses insurance coverage for people who didn't really have a big problem --they just went to the ER and didn't pay the bills. It is a good thing to clean up that aspect of our HC system, but that doesn't begin to touch the things that are really killing people. I buried my mother today (well, to be accurate, put her in a mausoleum). She was the victim of the "specialty stovepiping" that has overtaken our system in the past 20 years. The real money is in specialties, so the PC docs respond by taking on 4000 patients and basically give flu shots. Nobody looks over the whole patient, and I don't see anything in ACA that even tries to address that.

And here's the problem. Come January 1, maybe there will be fewer ripoffs by insurance companies, but people will still be killed every day by this mess of a delivery system we have. And when they do, lots of people will point the finger and say "See I told you Obamacare was a terrible idea."

There really is no way to win at this thing. But it is still worth waging this campaign. We'll just have to be prepared to fight all those anecdotes as they come up.

OTOH, the GOP has been so hyperbolic in predicting the end of the universe because of Obamacare that we do have an opportunity to turn the tables on them. "Why should anybody vote for a person who was so very wrong about Obamacare?"

[FSogol]

14. K & R. n/t

[treestar]

15. they started it too

bet they kick themselves daily over that!

[Pretzel_Warrior]

16. But I bet all the history books will! Lolol