1 don't mention obama's name on the campaign trail period..................

2 Indeed, it stresses repeatedly, many are unaware that the legislation has passed, an astonishing shortcoming in the White House's all-out communications effort.

Maaaaan...even when they acknowledge the obvious, they still find a way to insult the people's intelligence...

3 Indeed, it stresses repeatedly, many are unaware that the legislation has passed, an astonishing shortcoming in the White House's all-out communications effort.

Ah, the intellectual giants that are the voting base of the Democrat party.  This has to be an excuse, right?  How could anyone with any awareness of politics not know the bill passed?  Or do they mean the benefits haven't become apparent enough for these groups to notice?

4
ObamaCare is Tax Payer Funded Health Care.
The CBO was gamed by the democrat party.
PelosiCare a deficit buster, it's a jobs killer and it's anti-free market in every way.


Republicans would be smart to run against ObamaCare.  No fear.
No amount of glitter and unicorn dust will make ObamaCare work, anyway.  It's a disaster.

5 "benefits" I should say.

6 Wait, so you're saying that once these people find out about it passing they're going to love it?

Not gonna piss on your logic or anything but, don't you think that if that was the case there'd be other groups that, once they found out about its passage, that love it?
No?
Huh, funny that.

7 damn...........the water in the gulf is cleaner than the water in martha's vineyard.........

8

Oops.   Can I borrow a hundred trillion dollars? 

9 There's FREE rectal probes in Obamacare!

10
The resaon the presentation and selling of ObamaCare hasn't worked - is because it's all lies. 
Government Run tax-payer funded health care is doomed to be a failure, no matter how good the sell job.  Turning doctors and nurses into slaves of the state - won't work.  Raising taxes to pay for it, won't work.  Forcing people to purchase something they don't necessarily want, won't work.  Gaming the CBO with bogus forecasts and economic half-truths, won't work.  Robbing Peter to pay Paul, won't work.  Killing-off free market incentives, won't work.  Forcing health care to be more "affordable" to some, will only end up making it more expensive for almost everyone else.

11 Hillary Clinton is announcing new Mideast Peace Talks.
Thank God, that mess is finally behind us.

12

as a professor of really smart stuff that you neo cons would not understand i must chime in on this wingnut problem with healthcare.

1- it will help the economy by killing off old bastards....

2- it will lower the deficit because we will refuse to cover all rethugs...

3- GO FUCK YOURSELVES RACISTS

PS- 4 - WE NEED THE TAX MONEY OR ALL US GUBMINT WORKERS WILL HAVE TO GET REAL JOBS....RACISTS

 

13

o0bamacare is a huge dud with the Indies. They're the white collar demographic that is already getting communications from corporate about changes to their (generally good) health benefit plans.

They wanted postpartisan and postracial instead they got a post up their ass.

14 diggin' the dem implosion ... may I have some more please?

15 Rasmussen says 60% want it completely repealed.

16 ObamCare: Killing you even before it takes effect

17

It's going to be tough to repeal the provisions on preexisting conditions and coverage for adult 'children'. 

Slogan:

"Obama in 2012: doesn't want to murder sick babies and college kids."

The problem with any entitlement, no matter how counterproductive, wasteful and financially unsustainable, is that the supporters can always pull a sick/poor person to the side of the podium and win the 'argument' over whether we can afford it.

 

18 9: With all due respect, weren't our roving colorectal clinics good enough for you?

Certainly nobody in your home district seemed to have a problem...

19
#12  - 100% certainty.  BOOM!

20

"Under my Health Scam, no one's benefits will change _{except the unions, theirs will get even better due to sacrifices made by the private sector"}

21 I think the extra repulsion people are still feeling comes from the way this bitch was crammed down our throats, despite heavy opposition to it.  It's when many people really started to wake up to what our gov't is doing and how they feel invincible to the wishes of the people.  We're not forgetting what they did.  Couple that with the disaster that it is for all the reasons Downsized mentioned @12 and, well, the Dems are fucked on this. 

22
If everyone really understood how horrible PelosiCare is, that 56% number would skyrocket.  Just like the Obama deficit.

23 By now, even the most vapid mouth-breathers should realize that HealthScare is only one of Osama Obama's egregious lies.

Soon, one hopes, they will understand what the Traitor-in-Chief meant when he promised to "transform America."

Oh, wait. Maybe the general public wants to live in a country that combines the worst features of Kenya, Indonesia and North Korea. If so, they're getting what they want.

24 Had to pass it to see what was in it, don'tcha know. Now just don't tell anybody!

25

I care for a disabled relative whose treatment is Medicaid funded. Those individuals who already are on a government plan  are limited in their health care options, much more so than anyone on a private insurance plan. Even they understand the concept that the government is more likely to take away options than to give you more access to quality providers.

(When I found out the cost of the one medication that is really helping him, I became concerned that it will soon be off the list of allowed prescriptions. I haven't relayed any of this to him, his life is already difficult enough.)

26 I've fallen and I can't get up.

27 Need new lies to tell ignorant people, old ones didn't work.

28

I think obamacare needs a vacation.

29 I've fallen and I can't get up.

So, should we be ordering another batch of zerohedge's Dow 10k (from the top) hats again?

30 So, if Obama was not born in Hawaii, Obamacare is null and void right?

31 So, if Obama was not born in Hawaii, Obamacare is null and void right? Posted by: Waiting for DiogenesLamp to hold forth on this thread too at August 20, 2010 10:24 AM (1PeEC) Sure. Hey I got this bridge in Brooklyn I can sell ya.

32 When I found out the cost of the one medication that is really helping him, I became concerned that it will soon be off the list of allowed prescriptions.

Oh, that life-enhancing drug is soooo banned.  Suck it, peons.

33 @42

Really? Can I move the bridge somewhere else? Because those Park Slope bastards are frickin' annoying as hell. Almost as annoying as those Trig deniers.

34

Dem Strategists: Stop Saying ObamaCare Reduces the Deficit, Nobody Believes You

ObamaCare DOES reduce the deficit ... by 3000%.

35 15, kallisto:
They wanted postpartisan and postracial instead they got a post up their ass.

OK, that made me snicker. 

36 You will be called to fill a position of high honor and responsibility.

21-37-22-18-54-01

Posted by: fortune cookie

 

Between the sheets?

37 My health ins. went from $28 a week to $63 a week on Jan. 1. The next week I got laid off. Whew, dodged that bullet!

38 My health ins. went from $28 a week to $63 a week on Jan. 1. The next week I got laid off. Whew, dodged that bullet!

Posted by: bigred

 

You can thank me now.

39

The Vapid One's™ name is just like Beetlejuice.

Don't say it out loud three times.

40 Did you mean Beetlejuice?

41

The problem with any entitlement, no matter how counterproductive, wasteful and financially unsustainable, is that the supporters can always pull a sick/poor person to the side of the podium and win the 'argument' over whether we can afford it.

Which is why the Republicans should have brought out long lines of people who were screwed over by Medicare, Tricare, the VA, etc.

42 its smells like teen spirit ...

43
mornin bigots & bigettes

44 You know what probably tastes really bad? Beetlejuice.

45

So 56% of the country suffers from Virginitiphobia- Fear of rape.

46

It's funny 'cuz today the department of energy asshole up here in MA was pimping the silly Cape Wind Farm project.

He said it will raise costs in the short term and then lower energy costs in the long term.

Fucking Democrats say this about everything. When they proposed the Big Dig they said it will cause more traffic during construction and then when it's done we'll have no more traffic in Boston!

Traffic is worse than ever. Health care costs are higher than ever. Everything the government does sucks.

47 "The problem with any entitlement, no matter how counterproductive, wasteful and financially unsustainable, is that the supporters can always pull a sick/poor person to the side of the podium and win the 'argument' over whether we can afford it." That argument doesn't work as well in a down economy. If people can't pay for their own sick family they aren't all that sympathetic to paying for others who aren't supporting themselves.

48 Hey, Video Professor, can't you put out a couple of "Capitalism for Dummies" CDs or something so people won't be so snookered by things like ObamaCare in the future?

49 55
mornin bigots & bigettes

Posted by: I'm Video Professor, buy my CDs at August 20, 2010 10:36 AM (uFokq)

Hmmm, I like my bigetts with cream cheese and a little jelly.

 

50
The Democrats version of  "I Won't Nut in Your Mouth."

-- it will create jobs
--boost the economy
--reduce costs
--make us safer

All. Lies.

51 I live and work in NYC. There are sufficient limousine liberals here that don't care if you can't pay for your own sick family, they only care that they feel good about making you pay for someone else.

52

You know what probably tastes really bad? Beetlejuice.

To wash that taste away, click on the sidebar article for bacon pancakes.

Mmmmm, pancakes.

53
You have to spend money, to save money. 

54
SHUT UP !!!!!!!!!!!!
I demand an investigation into who is funding these outrageous opinions.

55 Everything the government does sucks.

Posted by: I'm Video Professor, buy my CDs at August 20, 2010 10:40 AM (uFokq)

Profound and succinct, would make an excellent bumper stick.

56 I believe we can safely assume the 44% who favor Barky's hellcare plan still live in their moms' basements and troll AoSHQ.

57 The presentation also concedes that the fiscal and economic arguments that were the White House's first and most aggressive sales pitch have essentially failed.

That sentence encompasses everything wrong with politics, politicians, and the media.  The "arguments" were false and were known to be false from the beginning.  Yet, politicians stood with straight, botox-laced (see what I did there) faces and claimed economic benefits they knew were lies.  So, had the "arguments" succeeded would we be better off?  Would that make them true?  Hardly.  But, it's the success of the "argument" that matters, not their validity or truth. 

 

 

58 Where the heck has Slow Joe been lately?  Are we going to find out this weekend that he slipped into Iran via parachute and is single handedly taking out the nuke facility?

59 68 I believe we can safely assume the 44% who favor Barky's hellcare plan still live in their moms' basements and troll AoSHQ.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 20, 2010 10:47 AM (UOM4

Or live in the White House and last name rhymes with Yo-mama.

60

What happened to Ace's brilliant post from this morning??

..did Pelosi's goon squad get to him?

61 what happened? Did Ace run short of meth?

62 "You have to have sex with me, so that you can find out what is in it."

63 Too late idiots!!

64

Posted by: Waiting for DiogenesLamp to hold forth on this thread too at August 20, 2010 10:28 AM (1PeEC)

I do not know who this is (chemjeff?) but damn....that was funny.

Posted by: Mallamutt at August 20, 2010 10:48 AM (OWjjx)

Kratos new sock maybe? Didn't he decapitate Diogenes and use his head/eyes as a lamp?

65

Yeah, that ObamaCare bill has to go. Repeal it and replace it with a free-market solution like what should've been done in the first place. Since Obama and the Dims poll numbers have tanked, the squishes in the GOP might, might have the fortitude to actually run on a platform of repeal, not only for ObamaCare, but for the financial reform bill too.

The knuckle-draggers (that would be us, as viewed from Washington) have finally broken the code that Obama cares not a whit about us, our feelings, or our country. Opposing him and the Dim agenda is the way to win. They also need to get serious about tax cuts and true deregulation (starting with the abolition of the EPA, formerly an "extreme" right wing position that doesn't sound so extreme anymore, now does it?), so they can't just waltz into power without a valid plan for getting the country back on track after years of progressive failures.

We know what needs to be done. We are no longer content to trust politicians with the keys. We also must tell them where the gas cap is located and what all those pedals are for.

66 Anyone else see the Riehl post on Bawney Fwank's challenger?

If that guy can't beat Franknbeans this year, nobody can.

67

I was watching Morning Joe.....I know, I know...what can I say?? I just a glutton for punishment...

...and Jon Meacham...the guy that ran Newsweek into the ground...said that the reason that Jug Ears is so unpopular is that we are too stupid to understand his greatness..

...he said that Jug Ears is so fucking intelligent that we can't keep up

I damned near needed a corpse-man to revive me after I heard that

 

68 36 Forcing people to purchase something they don't necessarily want, won't work.

Posted by: replica handbags at August 20, 2010 10:22 AM (VG0Bj)

A self aware spam bot. And one coming to realize the futility of its existence.

69 Just wait till the old folks discover that while they still have Medicare, nothing's covered under it, and they have to travel 75 miles to find a doctor/urgent care clinic that will treat them -- the opposition to Obamacare will shoot up to 80%. (Some of the 80% will be liberal women who discover that the price of having nationalized health care, as in England, is no treatment for breast cancer.)

70 "And one coming to realize the futility of its existence."

Au contraire. It's new adaptation allows opportunistic chances for reproduction, as evidenced by post #40 as well as your own.
Life finds a way.

71 i believe an addendum should be added;  All  congress : :all gvt employees and union  employess on this day January 20th 2012 have to comply to same healthcare standards set by the gvt of the united states of obamaland.

72 I see chemjeff on the ONT. He's real people.

73
I don't get it. What went wrong? I just wanted free stuff. I always support anyone or anything that promises me free stuff. You know, stuff I don't have to work for or contribute to. I'm still waiting for my free CT scan and free visits to the chiropractor and the free visits to Weight Watchers. I sure hope Imam Obama knows what he's doing, because I'm starting to think I made a big mistake. I kinda feel dumber than a box of rocks. Or is that a bag of hammers? I dunno.

74 Yes, well, Nancy Pelosi still says "Once the bill is passed, we are ALL going to LOVE it."  And whoever opposes it, bring on the investigation.

75 CDR M, you forgot raw veggies on a stick.

76 Wooooohooooo! Not only is Osama Obama saving us financially and leading us to a New Era of tolerance for terrorists Muzzies, but Hitlery Clinton is supposedly about to announce "peace talks" between Israel and the Palestinians.

I'm sure if Israel simply agrees to evacuate its lands and vanish, the Palis, Clinton and the Traitor-in-Chief will almost be satisfied.

77 cdrm, likely very unsafe rides to boot.  darn shame we're not allowed an opt out feature.

78 naw that wasn't me

79

93  Yay, rah!  They have given us peace in our time!

Wait, what's that? 

 

80 always right, just imagine our glee when we fing out what's all in it .

81

It's payback time...prepare your squeakhole for the bear

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Arkansas shows Boozman capturing 65% of the vote, while Lincoln earns 27% support...Lincoln was reelected to a second Senate term in 2004 with 56% of the vote, but her political fortunes in the state have plummeted since she cast a procedural vote late last year to keep President ObamaÂ’s healthcare bill alive

If you thought the chicken had been getting it bad, you ain't seen nothin' yet

82 I watch Morning Joe sometimes just to get the ol' rage ramped up.  Helps me speed through house work. 

The stupid in Mika is strong.  And Joe has just become another useful idiot for his lefty masters.

83

As the number of taxpayer voters who have had it with fuckface grow, Jugears and the Dems seem more hell bent on shoveling mass amounts of shit sandwiches down our throats.  I truly believe that they intend to cause mass civil unrest in order to declare Marshal Law, suspend elections, and begin the press for complete "Hard Tyranny", yes, a full blown dictatorship.

84 Obamacare is a political trebuchet.

85 Isn't the fact that the dems are already talking about "improving" the health shit sandwich an admission that the bill was a complete pile of garbage in the first place?

Why can't the RNC (paging Mr Steele, What up?) run an ad that outlines the timetable,  against Ogabe's promise to put bills on the internet for 5 days, and run on a platform of repealing and defunding this complete piece of shit.  Every R candidate should run on repealing this and continually asking their D opponent what his position is on the law.  Simple, are you for or against repealing this?

86 93 Wooooohooooo! Not only is Osama Obama saving us financially and leading us to a New Era of tolerance for terrorists Muzzies, but Hitlery Clinton is supposedly about to announce "peace talks" between Israel and the Palestinians.

I'm sure if Israel simply agrees to evacuate its lands and vanish, the Palis, Clinton and the Traitor-in-Chief will almost be satisfied.

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 20, 2010 11:04 AM (Ulu3i)

And they are going to set a 1 year deadline for the negotiations to be completed. That's such bullshit. Obama wants to be the fucking hero in the White House when the Israeli's and the cocksucking pals finally reach an agreement.

87

And no tort reform.

I actually is worse than it appears.

88

...that groups typically supportive of Democratic causes — people under 40, non-college educated women, and Hispanic voters — have not been won over by the plan.

 

Typical Dems:  Trust us.  We are doing this FOR YOUR OWN GOOD.

89 Michelle supports torte reform.

90 Obamacare delenda est.

91

The muzzies Dems only hurt me rape my healthcare because they love me.

92

109  and a global strudel ban, don't forget that

Ice cream is however ok -- but only coconut flavor, and only for qualified recipients who have proven they will use the ice cream in a responsible manner.

93 I thought wookies favored rat flavored cream.

94

Suggestions for bumper sticker entrepreneurs out there:

 

Obamacare is a BIG DUD.  Let's all work together to REPEAL it.

In 2010 join with the Party of NO to say NO to Obamacare. 

Honk if you want Obamacare Repealed  (You know you do)

Repealing Obamcare will be a satisfying  bi-partisan effort. Let's do it!

Hey Hey, Ho Ho, Obamacare has got to go. Your vote in November matters.

95 Obama wants to be the fucking hero in the White House when the Israeli's and the cocksucking pals finally reach an agreement. Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at August 20, 2010 11:16 AM

There will be no settlement unless the Israelis are more suicidal than I think. They know how far they can trust Osama Obama and Hitlery Clinton: as in not at all.

"Oh, Israel? Those peace-loving Iranians don't have nukes and they won't use them on you even if they do have them, which of course they don't."

_{"No, our fingers aren't crossed behind our backs...."}

96 Israel should set up a pay pal account. I'd give to a Bombs For Bushehr fund.

97 I had wished to awaken to a smoking crater in place of a certain nuclear facility in Iran.

You can imagine my disappointment.

98 No shit. I had a "The made a sea of glass, and called it Peace." quote already to go.

99

Reform the Health Care Reforms? Shit, I guess they should've read the damn thing.

Does this call for reform mean they've read it now. Every Dem, including non-incumbants, who spouts this line should be asked when they bothered to read the bill. If they say they havent, the next question should be "Then how do you know which part needs to be reformed?"

In conversations I like to drop the line "Do these idiots have any clue what they are doing?" I really don't care what the answer is. I simply want to repeat over and over and over, without regard to motive, that we end up with damaging imbecilic policies from incompentent idiots.

100 Pass a repeal bill thru the House, let the Dems filibuster it in the Senate. Change it, repeat - let the Dems filibuster or veto. Make them own it every other month. Concurrently zero the appropriations for it.

101

Just want to make sure I understand the nuance of this issue completely:

we have to pass the bill to see what's in it... then reelect those who passed it without reading or understanding what was in the bill to improve it?

OK, gotcha. Makes perfect sense

102 Oh yes the death panels are coming...to a voting booth this November.

103
But ... but ... but .. I won!

104 CBS Grade Obama Poll

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-6116297-503544.html?tag

105 Wait, wait, wait a minute.  ObamaCare passed?

106 ST. LOUIS – Under no illusions about their challenges this fall, Democrats are expressing optimism that the party's financial might and voter turnout operations will help stem widespread losses. The GOP's governing track record may help, too, they say.

"There's a lot of doom and gloom about it, but I think we're going to do a lot better than people think," Tim Kaine, the Democratic Party chairman, told Democrat National Committee members at a two-day meeting. "We've got a long way to go, but I think a number of factors are moving in the right direction for us."

Just like the economy is moving in the right direction

107 Where the heck has Slow Joe been lately?

Let me be clear.  As I have always said, we put Joe in the rotunda, and told him to sit in the corner.  We'll lead him out after the recovery summer.

108 Hey Charlie wake up, Obama needs another blow job.

109 How could this happen?  85% of Americans were satisfied with their health care and BO and his merry band of thieves comes along and fucks with it and they can't understand its lack of fanfare.

Waterhead retards.

110

The strategists also told Democrats that they should start talking about "improving" ObamaCare.

I have news.  Dems aren't the only ones who will be promoting "smarter" gov't healthcare.

111 Sparky -

My first name is spelled "Marshall" - with two L's.

112

In my book, The Road to Serfdom, I warned that politicians that promise "potential plenty" (i.e., follow their master-plan and enjoy all the free stuff) were either lying or didn't know what they were talking about. 

 It is nice to know that the Democrats have come around to my way of thinking.

113 ...and Jon Meacham...the guy that ran Newsweek into the ground...said that the reason that Jug Ears is so unpopular is that we are too stupid to understand his greatness..

We are all Socialists stupid now.

114 114  Hey Hey, Ho Ho,

You talkin' to ME????

115 Where the heck has Slow Joe been lately?

Very hush-hush emergency surgery.  Following his full frontal lobotomy, the docs realized they hadn't gotten it all.

116 I posted this in the wrong thread earlier, but:

I like your chances of repealing Obamacare, based on my completely subjective experience on a recent roadtrip to NC. 

Normally when my husband and I go to the USA, if our Canadianness is even noticed, no one really cares.  This time, we ended up staying a bit longer than planned and my husband ran out of insulin in Indiana. 

In order to get a prescription we had to find a doctor, which we did within an hour (that has never happened at home.  I've never had less than 3 week's wait for an appointment with my own doc).  When we talked to the doc we spent about 3 minutes getting the prescription, and 45 minutes answering questions about Canada's health care system.  Three of the clinic's doctors came in to talk to us, and they were extremely focused and grim.

Of random citizens we met along the way, nearly every one wanted to talk about health care as soon as they found out where we were from.  It was surreal, and unlike anything I've experienced on prior trips.  Nearly everyone we talked to was worried and upset, even before we told them about what they had to look forward to.

Of course, our sample pretty much consisted of middle class folks and medical staff, so not quite a complete cross-section of the nation.  But I did not meet one person who was happy about the change.  Good luck, friends.

117

My first name is spelled "Marshall" - with two L's.

Not.

118

I have some relatives that are Canadians (hey, their parents migrated to Canada looking for work during the Great Depression) and at a recent family reunion they were telling us about how they do volunteer work at a local Canadian hospital.  When they explained all the things that they did, Mrs Cop (a nurse) was stunned.  Unpaid volunteers had to keep things moving in the hospital.

 

119 I think Kudlow needs to get Geithner or Barney Frank back on to explain the great economic benefits certain to be coming our way.  Those chaps are both very bright and knowledgeable on economic issues according to Dudlow, true wise men.

120 Scarcity huh? Well if there aren't enough doctors the Congress will just pass a law stating there ARE enough doctors. Just like they do in Canada...

121 Posted by: Delicious Lead Paint at August 20, 2010 01:16 PM (xBDXf)

I have a few mottoes in life, one of them is "You try to tell people, but they just won't listen."

Thanks for the luck, we need it. Those 52% vote, and I doubt most of them are smarter today than they were in 2008.

122

In "Obamacare" we are seeing the lethal corruption of Chicago politics writ large.

The government saves money by never providing the health care that was promised.

See: http://tinyurl.com/obozocare

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