luckyleftyme2
luckyleftyme2's Journalhow wrong is the right
I can't help think of this ole ditty when I see the heritage groups failures at trying to prove wrong is right:
here's the ditty: "there's just no justice in this here land I just got a divorce from my ole man!
I laughed and laughed at the court's dissension they gave the kids to him
"AND THEY AIN'T HIS IN"
I'M ROLLING ON THE FLOOR AT THE HERITAGE GROUP; THE FISHY FOLLOWERS ; AND ALL THE REST OF THE SHEEPLE THAT SUCK UP THEIR PROPAGANDA:
READ THIS AND WEEP BECAUSE 5 YEARS FROM NOW THE REPUBLICANS WILL PROVE OBAMACARE WAS THEIR IDEA ANND THOSE SAME FOOLS WILL SWEAR BY IT.
Dick Polman
Back in the distant days of yore — circa 2013 — Republicans viewed Obamacare as the meatiest, juiciest issue of the 2014 campaign season, the political equivalent of a Porterhouse steak. But alas, the issue has since shrunk to a sprig of parsley.
You rarely hear Republicans railing wildly anymore about an imminent “train wreck,” because the law they hate is doing what they feared most: It’s working.
Where's the story?
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Obamacare is expanding health coverage to ever-growing millions of Americans, notably in red states like North Carolina, Arkansas and Kentucky. Since March, it has exceeded enrollment projections, a landslide majority of Americans (including self-identified Republicans) tell pollsters that they’re happy with their new coverage, and most premium hikes this year are expected to be modest — foiling GOP doomsday warnings about skyrocketing rates.
And so, having hurled themselves headlong into the wall of factual reality, Republican strategists are beating a swift retreat. It’s all detailed in the new ad-tracking stats compiled by the nonpartisan Campaign Media Analysis Group, which details dramatic anti-Obamacare ad pullbacks in North Carolina, Louisiana and Arkansas.
It may be sheer coincidence, but the ad pullback in North Carolina comes at a time of rapid enrollment in North Carolina — nearly 600,000 people by early spring, which, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, is roughly 54 percent of the potential statewide market. And it may be sheer coincidence, but the ad pullback in Arkansas comes at a time of rapid enrollment in Arkansas; indeed, the rate of uninsured citizens in that state has reportedly fallen from 22.5 percent last year to 12.4 percent at the midpoint this year.
The GOP’s ad retreat dovetails with congressional stats that document the GOP’s rhetorical retreat. According to the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation, GOP lawmakers referenced Obamacare 2,753 times in floor speeches last September. But this past June, with Congress in session for roughly the same number of days, GOP lawmakers were virtually mute. The number of references: 171.
It’s a beautiful thing for the public, to be spared so much of their bilge.
And they’ve been wrong about Obamacare so many times, it’s comical. They said there’d be “death panels.” Wrong. John Boehner said we’d face “Armageddon.” Wrong. They said the federal website couldn’t be fixed, that it would “collapse on itself.” Wrong. They said that few Americans would bother to sign up. Wrong. They said that few healthy young Americans, in particular, would bother to sign up. Wrong. They said that those Americans who were forced to change health plans would hate their new coverage. Wrong. They said Obamacare would train-wreck federal spending. According to the Congressional Budget Office, that’s wrong too. They said that premiums this year would go through the roof...yeah, let’s talk about that one.
Back in June, the right-wing Daily Caller website warned in a headline that, thanks to Obamacare, Americans would face “Double-Digit Premium Hikes.” The Daily Caller cited a bid by Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield to seek an average 12.5 percent premium increase in the Connecticut market. (By the way, health insurers have sought big hikes since time immemorial.) But now we have the result. Two days ago, after Connecticut insurance regulators said no to that hefty hike, Anthem agreed to lower the average premium by 0.1 percent.
How come? Because Obamacare has empowered federal and state regulators to thwart health insurers’ attempts to gouge customers. In an email, a Kaiser Family Foundation official told Talking Points Memo, “Premium increases for exchange plans have been modest in most places...But even the increases we’ve heard about generally represent proposed rates that may not be the last word, once state regulators finalize their reviews.”
The moral of this story: Watch not what Republicans say about Obamacare (their Cassandra ‘tude has long been a crock), but what they do about Obamacare. Which is squat. Heck, they still can’t even agree on what they’d replace it with. And their decision this summer to yank most of their campaign advertising speaks volumes.
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to you planted losers
How many times have you seen a certain pundit from Maine lead a movement (well contribute) to down liberals;fight gay rights, or whatever will give him 15 minutes of attention with his few hardliner friends most who are taking advantage of their fellow Mainers? I would love to have 5 minutes with him in a public forum to call his attention to all the lost battles he has led as well as the cost to Maine taxpayers ! Just think of the lost wages jerks like him have cost us.
the latest kick in his face is the fact that unions are supporting a Maine republican ; an best of all this idiot is so negative he has slammed this elected republican! I say all this moron does is cause chaos latching on to any hair-brain idea that will give him attention and put a buck in his pocket! but then who am I just a man born into a republican family that has been on his own since he was 16. but the best thing my family ever gave me was the ability to think ,so I seldom let jerks like him bother me until they effect my pocket book! Fishy if anyone takes the time to research you they will see "your a nobody full of hate and all you do is spread discontent!
get the assassin
After this public execution of our countryman "James Foley" we need to capture his executioner and put him on public display for the world to see that we avenge our american brothers and sisters. this " ISIS GROUP" IS NOTHING BUT A BAND OF OUTLAW MILITANTS !They use terror as their main attempt to control their enemy. As a military adversary they are few and weak. Certainly not able to confront a real militia. Any person who has worn a uniform should demand a swift and just capture or kill of this assassin and those who order it. We should make a real statement of fact of this so that any man who commits such an act (and those who ordered it) understand that so doing they have signed their own death warrant!
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