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Senate Democrats block GOP bid to repeal health care law

iamitter said:
Because the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has said the health care reform law will lower the deficit, Democrats argued that repealing it would increase the deficit.
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elmendorf's arithmetic is based on his seeing more than THREE QUARTERS OF A TRILLION dollars in new TAXES in obamacare

Director's Blog » Blog Archive » Additional Information on CBO’s Preliminary Analysis of H.R. 2

seeya on the floor

send senators mccaskill and manchin and webb and warner and baucus and nelson and nelson and tester and conrad and lieberman and casey and kohl and the other half dozen currently pinched your posts about NINETEEN NINETY THREE

maybe that'll HELP

LOL!
 
iamitter said:
You said this was not a republican idea.
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no, silly, what i said was:

1. LOL!

2. good luck trying to sell the electorate on republican responsibility for the pig

3. 1993

4. tell it to mccaskill and the other dozen endangered

5. nobody wants it

6. it's all yours

7. seeya on the floor

hey, be proud of your accomplishments, it was no easy thing to RECONCILE

congratulations!
 
i also posted LINKS to msm's as diverse as wapo, nyt, the globe, the hill, bloomberg and the cbo website to let THEM say:

1. half a trillion cuts to medicare while expanding its enrollment by millions

2. er traffic, promised to decrease, another prime payfor, actually turns out to go up (significantly)

3. doctors, already in dire demand, are refusing coast to coast to take on new medicare patients

4. the cbo says obamacare double counts a quarter tril

5. the doc fix is off budget, another quarter T

6. obamacare places 200 billion of unfunded burden on already bankrupt states in the form of medicaid's expansion

7. it includes more than three quarters of a T in new taxes

argue with THEM, ie, the msm's

they won't see you, however, without a microscope
 
disneydude said "That will be pretty funny to watch...since that was the GREAT Republican idea that made it into the bill as an alternative to the public option."
"republican mandate---LOL!

crammed thru senate via RECONCILIATION

mere days after the party was willing to DEEM the damn thing

hey, you got JOSEPH CAO's support!"

I interpreted you laughing about the idea that it was a republican idea as your disbelief in it.
 
you interpret hilarity engendered by talking points prodigiously unprofitable as...

what was it again?

LOL!
 
Badmutha said:
Remember Nov. 2, 2010--The Largest Political Ass-Whooping in History?

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And taking Dead Kennedy's seat... which was the warning shot.

Badmutha said:
Republicans took Control of the House with 63 House Seats, 6 Senate seats, 10 Governorships, 680+ State legislative seats, and control of 19 more State legislatures..

The complete rejection of ObamaCare and everything the Democrat party stands for from sea to shining sea........
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Would you believe there were folks here who said that election was neither historic, nor decisive!?
And battled for pages about it!

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Erod said:
This spin of late isn't going to get you guys anywhere. So Republicans suggested the public option be mandated....ok.
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No....if you can think back about 9 months. The Republicans fought hard against the public option. Not a single Republican would support the public option...and a handful of spineless democrats wouldn't support it either. So in an effort to reach out and appease the Republicans, Obama scrapped the public option and offered to implement the Republican idea to require everyone to purchase insurance as a compromise. THAT was and always was a REPUBLICAN idea. I agree that it was a stupid idea and we should have held out for the public option...a much better idea. But you cannot change the fact that the mandate to purchase insurance was a Republican idea.
 
disneydude said:
No....if you can think back about 9 months. The Republicans fought hard against the public option. Not a single Republican would support the public option...and a handful of spineless democrats wouldn't support it either. So in an effort to reach out and appease the Republicans, Obama scrapped the public option and offered to implement the Republican idea to require everyone to purchase insurance as a compromise. THAT was and always was a REPUBLICAN idea. I agree that it was a stupid idea and we should have held out for the public option...a much better idea. But you cannot change the fact that the mandate to purchase insurance was a Republican idea.
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Exactly. The public option was a better idea, but republicans fought it. That is how we got here.
 
Erod said:
What people want is to be able to buy across state lines, tort reform to control costs, and a way to address pre-existing conditions.

What we got was a monstrosity of biblical proportions that could lead to the government controlling 17 percent of the economy and the inevitable massive cluster**** it would become.
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People with pre-existing conditions must be treated the same as the young healthy people. There can be no compromise on this issue.
 
zimmer said:
And taking Dead Kennedy's seat... which was the warning shot.
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Amen......and a Republican winning in New Jersey.....

Clearly it took a lot more than a bad economy to turn the bluest of blue states red......

Would you believe there were folks here who said that election was neither historic, nor decisive!?
And battled for pages about it!

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Were they the same people that called Obama's 52% of the vote a "Landslide"?

Yeah I can believe it......
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Mickey Shane said:
People with pre-existing conditions must be treated the same as the young healthy people. There can be no compromise on this issue.
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Well, they might be required to sign a longer contract or something - otherwise whats stopping them from leaving the policy right after they get treated?
 
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