The same legislation all of them who were in office in 2010 voted for
(The Hill) Vulnerable Democrats are scrambling to find ways to stand apart from the White House on ObamaCare as the rollout of the high-profile law continues to struggle — and threatens their reelections.
A number of red state Democrats in the House and Senate are rushing to embrace legislation to amend ObamaCare, seeking to improve parts of the law that have led to public outrage, and insulate themselves from attacks as they head into election year in 2014.
Ones like Landrieu, Hagan, Begich, Pryor, Barrow, and McIntyre are just a few of the ones freaking out now that the law is going tits up. Of course, it’s going tits up in exactly the manner it was supposed to. This is what Democrats voted for, particularly in terms of giving HHS, and by extension the White House, enormous power and latitude to craft the rules for O-care.
“A lot of members are very concerned,†said Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), who has talked to several nervous members from swing districts.
If the White House doesn’t quickly offer an alternate solution, Connolly warned more Democrats would back Rep. Fred Upton’s (R-Mich.) legislation, which would grandfather in all plans that would be canceled by the law’s requirements.
If these Democrats had voted in favor of doing The Right Thing for the American People, and refused to support this horrible legislation, they wouldn’t be in this situation.
Even amid the ObamaCare website calamity, Landrieu said the healthcare law is “worth fighting for.†She added, “It’s important we don’t lose sight of how important this bill is for the American people.â€
This highlights one of the issues in politics, with Democrats backing the Party platform to the hilt, rather than doing what is best for the People. This law isn’t the way. And they really shouldn’t expect any help from Team Obama
“We weren’t making grandiose claims. He doesn’t have to run again, I don’t know why he needs to make such grandiose claims. Some of this stuff is just gratuitous rhetoric,†he said.
That’s right, Dems, don’t expect any help for 2014. Obama has his “legacy” to worry about, and he obviously doesn’t care how the ACA negatively affects citizens. The law was based on a lie, and Dems have lied about it ever since. Republicans stated exactly what would happen even before it was passed in the dead of night using bribes, extortion, and parliamentary tricks. And it will only get worse.
BTW, just to be clear, the numbers show a measly 106,000 signed up through the Exchanges, only 27,000 of which were from the federal exchange. Of course, these number do not specify how many actually paid for the plan. They include people who have may have a plan in their shopping cart and gone no further. We do not know how many are young healthies and how many have pre-existing conditions. Even worse, 396,000 people have been approved for Medicaid, so, we’re essentially moving people into true government run health care.
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Which doesn’t really do anything if I understand all this. You can’t grandfather anything in when the plans are already gone, right? Especially for those who have already selected a new plan.
And, I do not trust Upton. He’s a slimeball RINO. He’s the one that eagerly pushed through the “light bulb ban” bill. And he said he would fix that, but hasn’t. he’s a liberal repub that only wants to inflate big gov’t. Don’t trust him.
And now, The King comes out and says that he will ignore more laws to placate the plebes. He says he will “ignore” the penalties for failing to kill illegal (he calls them “substandard”) health insurance plans.
If he does that, tack on another impeachable offense. This is his law and he’s stating that he will refuse to follow the law.
Harvard must be so proud of its Star law student. If Barry is any standard of the Harvard product, Harvard lawyers are a shoddy product. Run.
unfortunately, this is a symptom of a larger educational problem.
I rarely create responses, however i did a few searching and wound
up here Pirate’s Cove- Comments on
Surprise: Vulnerable Dems Work To Distance Themselves From
“Affordable” Care Act. And I do have a couple of questions for
you if it’s allright. Could it be simply me or does it look like a few of these remarks appear
like left by brain dead individuals? 😛 And, if you are writing
on other places, I would like to keep up with anything new you have to post.
Could you make a list of the complete urls of your community
sites like your Facebook page, twitter feed, or linkedin profile?
As opposed to animal or insect experience. That Teach does excel at.
Wow, marvelous weblog format! How long have you
been blogging for? you make running a blog glance easy.
The entire glance of your web site is magnificent, as neatly as the content!
yes, Teach glances neatly from one blog format to another. Some call him a stalker, or worse, but we call him “Old Salty”. If you glance around long enough, you’ll neatly know why.
Heh! Now I can’t remove that spam comment cause then your comment would make no sense
Tough knickers!! you let it through the spam gate, so it’s fair game.
They were just too funny to not comment on.
Dang it Teach, you removed that last one before I could snark all over it. I gotta be quicker, I guess.
There’s been more than normal spam making it thru lately