Comments on: A new meme I’ve noticed today…

By: R Daneel

R Daneel — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 05:10:13 +0000

Neo – Defund? You have to have an actual budget to not fund something. Otherwise you just throw money where you “deem” it needed as has been the modus operandi for the last 3 1/2 years or since the Year One MOE (Modern Obama Era).

The law and the Constitution mean less than nothing to these thugs.

By: Thomass

Thomass — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 05:05:55 +0000

Heh; looks like the dems are also sending out the trolls to connect Romney to Obamacare.

I think states should be allowed to provide a universal care plan if they want. As long as you can still buy coverage up and above what it covers if you want. If they can actually pay for said plan; more power to them. But anyway; nothing anti conservative about trying to have a min level of care for people in your state. Esp if there are opt outs (re: it is not based on forced equality as the real goal; just providing a min level of care for everyone).

By: Thomass

Thomass — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 05:00:42 +0000

Team O has played the demoralization game since the dem primaries (re: against the Hillary people). He plays it on everything… but yeah; probably little effect on this. The non left is motivated; not demoralized by this decision IMO.

By: Wry Mouth

Wry Mouth — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 04:56:29 +0000

I am interested to see, as a test of how long the electorate’s memory is, how many more seats flip GOP or independent in November. I’ll even give Mr. Obama the White House for 4 years, knock yourself out — if the GOP has a half-Nelson lock on both houses.

As for me, I’m voting Romney, because — heh — he seems to be everything Mr. Obama is, only moreso (see education, career, exec experience, knowledge of Washington, etc.). Moderates don’t scare me.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 01:31:52 +0000

Dear Mitt Romney: Thank you for Obamacare. We all know that you are its true author. Jerk.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 19:43:05 +0000

Steve: Anything that throws a monkey wrench into Obamacare (including lack of state cooperation) opens the door to single payer. I think even though Obamacare is unpopular, it got a lot of people used to the idea of universal or near-universal coverage. Lack of state participation keeps poor people under the system that's in place now, where the government requires that hospitals treat them and the bill is spread around among everyone else. As premiums become higher in the private market, due to this and other things (such as the fact that a lot of people probably would rather pay the penalytax and wait till they are sick before buying insurance because now they can't be refused even if they are sick), a lot of prognosticators have said private insurance will go belly up, and people will clamor for government-run single payer.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 19:32:28 +0000

It’s not just a big f**king deal; it’s a big f**king tax.

B.E.A.you.ti.ful.

Is it time to wake up yet?

By: expat

expat — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:24:34 +0000

jfm,

How do you think this will play with the voters?

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/06/wsj-chief-economist-75-of-obamacare-costs-will-fall-on-backs-of-those-making-less-than-120k-a-year-video/

Wasn’t there something about not raising taxes on those making less than 250K?

Gateway also says Obama threatens to veto the defense budget if the military don’t start paying more for their health care. Just so he doesn’t demand more from from all the diversity/afirmative action do nothings in he rest of the economy.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:09:10 +0000

neo, how would not expanding medicaid hasten the collapse of private insurance? I could see how expanding the public option would cause private insurance to collapse. In fact I would say that is the goal of obamacare.

By: jfm

jfm — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 12:35:21 +0000

ACA’s unpopularity was mitigated by the assumption that the Supreme Court would overturn it.

ACA is now constitutional. ACA is no longer a theoretical possibility; it’s a concrete reality.

People now are looking at ACA’s actual effects on their medical care and their pocketbooks. Will this make ACA more popular? I doubt it.