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Topic: ‘It’s Not Honorable. It’s Absurd’
Levin Slams Krauthammer For Backing
Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansions |
‘It’s Not Honorable. It’s Absurd’
Levin Slams Krauthammer For Backing
Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansions
Mediaite, by Matt Wilstein
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Original Article
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 2/25/2013 9:51:12 AM
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| Right-wing radio host Mark Levin took Fox News’ Charles Krauthammer to task this week for conceding the fight on Medicaid expansion to President Obama. Krauthammer appeared on Bret Baier‘s show Thursday to discuss the recent trend of Republican governors, including Florida’s Rick Scott, finally acquiescing on the Medicaid expansion provision of the Affordable Care Act. Speaking for those GOP governors, Krauthammer said, “You can oppose it and have opposed it all the way and then say, ‘Well, you lost the fight. It’s the law of the land. It passed in
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Comments:
I agree with Mr. Levin. It´s outrageous. Dr. K is a brilliant man and I love to hear his commentary. However, I won´t ever forget that he said early on that 0bama would lead from the center. He couldn´t have been more wrong and we are now paying dearly for it.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Coy860, 2/25/2013 9:58:04 AM (No. 9194791)
Link does not work.
I heard Mr. Levin talk about this and I´m not sure which one of us was more upset.
We lost the individual mandate part, but that was but one battle, not the WAR!
Now Republican State Governors are betraying us..then Krauthammer comes up with this pap..WHY is everyone betraying the People?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
coldoc, 2/25/2013 10:03:59 AM (No. 9194800)
King Goeoge´s taxes were "legal" too.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Axeman, 2/25/2013 10:15:50 AM (No. 9194823)
A slight tangent...
If the Supreme Court decided that gov´t imposed penalties and fees are actually taxes, then that means you can write them all off of your reported income, correct?
Should this not include road and bridge tolls, traffic tickets, park entrance fees, building permits, etc.?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
rabbit, 2/25/2013 10:17:45 AM (No. 9194828)
Levin´s audience is national; he ´thinks´ from a federal standpoint. Gov. Scott is responsible for a state; he has to think in terms of what is best for the citizens of his state. Like it or not, the law was set up so that states would receive more than they pay in for the first 3 years. So, Scott approved this for the first 3 years. Further approval depends on what Washington does 3 years down the road. That is a very rational decision for a state governor to make.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JAN, 2/25/2013 11:05:04 AM (No. 9194913)
Methinks levin could use some of Dr. Krauthamer´s services.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
smithereens, 2/25/2013 11:33:27 AM (No. 9194981)
Cute #4 putting ´thinks´ in parenthesis. What, you don´t think Levin is a thinker? How absurd! The man is brilliant and is one of the foremost US experts on the Constitution.
Oh, he´s a thinker alright and he understands that if the states don´t resist Obamacare then there will be no stopping. He´s not thinking federal, he´s thinking as a Federalist!
Do you honestly ´think´ that in 3 years these cowardly Republican governors are going throw down the gauntlet and finally rebel against this heinous grab for our freedoms? The political price will be even higher and they´ll be even more cowed.
God have mercy on us!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
god of irony, 2/25/2013 11:33:46 AM (No. 9194982)
It is the unprincipled rationalization like #4 that has lead the Republican party to its death spiral.
Either you stand for something or you fall for anything.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jfodoch, 2/25/2013 11:44:02 AM (No. 9195011)
The money being used to literally destroy our way of life is borrowed money (T-bonds, T-bills etc. bought, by the way, by Communist China), and those of us who are being destroyed ARE PAYING THE INTEREST on the debt !!!
What ???
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ROLFnader, 2/25/2013 12:54:07 PM (No. 9195207)
Who you gonna believe, Mark Levin- who has sold MILLIONS of books in several languages concerned entirely with the structure and its attendant rules for the American society - or an OFA poster that being paid to jump in when certain keywords appear . Today´s happened to be " Backing Obama´s Medicaid Expansions".
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
oldsfc, 2/25/2013 5:40:54 PM (No. 9195878)
Just another example of the DC mentality. Dr. K represents the thinking of the establishment GOP. This is the reason Romney, McCain and the rest loose. Not because dems have something to offer, but because republicans have nothing to offer.
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