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Topic: Confirmed: Obamacare is an
Unpopular, Shoddy Trainwreck |
Confirmed: Obamacare is an
Unpopular, Shoddy Trainwreck
Townhall, by Guy Benson
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Posted By:Drive, 12/4/2012 12:18:17 PM
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| Let´s begin with the unpopularity, then move on to the substantive issues. Sooner or later, the latter will impact the former. A new poll reveals that the same people who re-elected this president by a three-point margin still oppose his signature "accomplishment" by double-digits. Independents remain particularly sour on the law, the worst bits of which are slated for implementation over the next two years. In Jeffrey Anderson´s write-up of CNN´s poll, he explains why voters didn´t unequivocally embrace Obamaism on November 6th (via Mary Katharine Ham):
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
integrity7, 12/4/2012 12:25:19 PM (No. 9048064)
Really?
They exit-polled about Obamacare and the electorate that voted Obama and Reid back in still opposed it by double digits??
Example #1 why so many of us despair over so many of our fellow citizens.
With voters like this...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
smcchk, 12/4/2012 12:29:34 PM (No. 9048075)
The MSM won this election for Obama with fear. They made the (dumb) electorate fearful of Romney. They voted for the jerk they knew rather than the fellow they didn´t. This is probably how FDR kept getting re-elected.
We will see how much good will Obama actually has as his policies make their full impact.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
markinalpine, 12/4/2012 12:31:04 PM (No. 9048081)
You can´t give 2/3rds of your vote to the obysmal won, and 1/3rd of you vote to whatever warmed over crap sandwich served up by the RINOs, so what´s the point. The little snotty fascist control freak got re-elected.
ps, the article is worth reading anyway. Forewarned is forearmed, if you weren´t aware of some of the caca headed our way. Unfortunately the Patient Taxation and Unaffordable Non-Care Act of 2010, AKA obamaDon´tCare, is larded with too much carte blanche "as the Secretary shall determine" for anyone to know what to expect.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
suziesuburbanite, 12/4/2012 12:45:28 PM (No. 9048102)
Gonna be fun watching this tlrain wreck happen
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Mr. Know-It-All, 12/4/2012 12:50:26 PM (No. 9048108)
The big problem #4 is that you can only watch for so long. Eventually we will all get dragged aboard the train whether we want to go or not.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
STLstudent, 12/4/2012 1:15:52 PM (No. 9048145)
I was an election judge in a polling place that voted over 90% for Obama. These were not intelligent people. I even witnessed the mentally handicapped (Down´s Syndrome) voting with the "help" of others. That large percentage of high school drop-out in in urban areas are voting, and they are voting for Democrats who purchase their votes with food stamps and other welfare dollars.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Grambo, 12/4/2012 1:50:57 PM (No. 9048215)
Forgive them, for they know not what they´ve done. The re-election of the foreign student is proof positive that, although ignorance can be cured, you can´t fix stupid.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Teleologicus, 12/4/2012 2:02:13 PM (No. 9048238)
Just wait. The electorate will soon find out what it voted for. It thinks, of course, it voted for a free lunch. That was the promise. A surprising number of Americans believed it. They believed there was such a thing as a free lunch and they were in line to get theirs.
The complications will be immense, ramifying and intractable. Unanticipated problems will crop up for which bureaucratic solutions will be imposed that will in turn cause more unintended consequences. Expenses will explode by an order of magnitude or more. Fraud, waste and inefficiency will flourish, along with the usual corruption. The economy will sag and continue to suffer.
Vox populi vox dei? Not in every single case, not in the short run. But I think the worm will turn soon enough. We shall soon see - if Obama´s incompetence at international affairs doesn´t ignite a major war first.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
graniteman2009, 12/4/2012 2:12:43 PM (No. 9048253)
It really doesn´t matter now does it?
The poll that counted was on election day. We lost.
Could someone please tell these idiots that recycling the same old polls to gin up the base is ridiculous. We lost the battle. We need to move on.
Tell Townhall to stop polling issues that are dead.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Coy860, 12/4/2012 2:14:28 PM (No. 9048257)
So how does CJ Roberts explain this to the People?
"A new poll reveals that the same people who re-elected this president by a three-point margin still oppose his signature "accomplishment" by double-digits. Independents remain particularly sour on the law"
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
otronome, 12/4/2012 2:17:51 PM (No. 9048264)
Our meical insurance (HSA, $7000 deductible) has been hit with 2 increase in last 6 months - they toal 50%. Since Obamacare came into being our premium has increased over 100%. Instead of seeing a doctor, we are steered to nurse practioners. Quite the unintended consequence.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
LanieLou, 12/4/2012 2:45:19 PM (No. 9048308)
ObamaCare had little to do with actual health care & all to do with taking control of America from the people & handing it to non-elected CZars.
FYI... UHC, a pro-ObamaCare provider, has lowered co-pays to docs & hospitals so much, many FL health providers just dropped them. I guess the goal is to take all HC away from working & retired Americans & dole it out, according to their goals.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 12/4/2012 2:46:02 PM (No. 9048309)
What is even more troubling is when the electorate begins screaming about an Obamacare `fix` it will be the same people who will be entrusted to `fix` it.
Any bets on how that will turn out??
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 12/4/2012 4:53:20 PM (No. 9048536)
Obamacare is the law. Obama and the democrats say so.
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