There’s now someone else who, besides Kathleen Sebelius, appears to be demonstrating the fact that he’s smokin’, snortin’ or shootin’ up some pretty potent shit. And so, it now becomes all the more clear that Democrats are now so desperate as to be willing to tell any lie that pops into their head in their attempt to show that Obamacare is anything but the unmitigated disaster that we know it to be. This time around it’s none other than that rather slimy character, David Plouffe. On this the eve of the sign-up deadline for Obamacare, no one who is currently an active member of Barry & Co. seemed to be interested in appearing on any of the Sunday talk shows to urge Americans to enroll. Instead, the discussion was left to past members.
It was the afore mentioned Mr. Plouffe who, in appearing on ABC’s "This Week" with George ‘Stephy’ Stephanopoulos, actually described Obamacare, aka the Affordable Care Act, as being a "seminal achievement" the "politics" of which will improve over time. He then proceeded to say, and with a straight face no less, "The law's working." And then added, "You're going to have -- by the way, if you count people who are going directly to private insurance companies, Medicaid, children's health care, we're talking well more than 10 million people have health care, tens of millions more have security...This law is working." Which left me wondering just who it was that this guy was actually trying to convince.
This imbecilic dolt went on to claim, "And I think the Republican playbook of just 'repeal Obamacare, repeal Obamacare, repeal Obamacare' gets tougher as more and more people get health care. I think smart Republicans understand that." But the Republican playbook, as this ass puts it, has not been one based solely on the notion of repeal, repeal, repeal. There have been a number of alternate plans that have been put forward and that would serve the American people far better than does this blatant seizure of our healthcare system by our government. And they are plans that would actually reduce costs while not resulting in people being forced, arbitrarily, to lose their current plans, and therefore the doctors, that they like.
And it was Bill Kristol of "The Weekly Standard," whom I seldom agree with, who said, "No actual Democratic senator running for reelection sounds like David Plouffe." Kristol went on to say, "They are not saying this law is working. They're saying, 'Oh my God, we can fix it. Here's some new proposals.' Senator Mark Warner, Mark Begich is out there, unveiled a whole bunch of proposals to, quote, 'fix Obamacare' this week." Speaking as one of those who has already been forced to give up the insurance that I, and my family, had for over12 years and that allowed us all to be able to see the physicians that we liked, the only ‘fix’ for Obamacare is to simply get rid of it entirely, and as soon as we can.
But the Republican-led House will not vote to fix Obamacare, Stephy told his assembled little "Roundtable." To which Kristol responded, "I don't think the Democrat Senate will do it." Adding, "I don't think the Obama administration supports those proposals. They've resisted every attempt to do minor fixes and delays in Obamacare except for the ones they unilaterally decide on." Kristol added that it would be better for Republicans to run on "replace and repeal" rather than "repeal and replace." Kristol also said the polling goes up for Republicans when they talk about keeping Obamacare's tax credits and coverage for pre-existing conditions." There are a few things that could be kept, but for the most part, Obamacare needs to be scrapped.
According to ABC's political analyst Matthew Dowd, the 2014 election won't be about Obamacare at all. He said, "I think in the end, the 2014 election, if you look at the fundamentals of the election, it's not going to be about Obamacare. There's flaws in it, there's successes in it. I think everybody can debate that...But 2014 is about the direction of the country, the economy, and how people feel in their lives. It's not going to be about Obamacare." FLAWS? Dowd actually thinks that the only issue with Obamacare is the correcting of a few flaws? But look, even if you subscribe to this idiot’s logic, it seems rather obvious that our country is headed nowhere but down and the economy sucks.
So it is then that the Democrats, as well as their many media minions, continue to live in what can only be described as being some rather bizarre state of denial. When it comes to such things as the direction of the country, whether seen as being right or wrong, the pathetic state of our economy, and the escalating costs for your average American of simply being able to get by every day, many people don’t view Obamacare as being something that merely possesses a few flaws. And if the Republicans do gain control of the Senate, while keeping control of the House, they will have but a brief 24 months to demonstrate that they possess the willingness to do whatever it is that needs to be done to alter the course we’re now on.
And let there be no doubt that the American people will, most assuredly, be watching. And if not much more happens than what we saw take place after the 2010 elections, the party might as well forget about 2016. Because Obamacare, or no Obamacare, the Republican Party will be finished. And something that does not bode well for anything substantial taking place, is the fact that all three members of our House ‘leadership’ team plan on attending an anti-Tea Party gathering here in Florida next weekend. So I’m afraid that even if the Republicans are successful this November, all that we’re likely to be doing is to delay the inevitable. That point in time when the party simply ceases to remain viable.
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