{"id":51128,"date":"2013-09-26T10:23:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T16:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=51128"},"modified":"2013-09-26T10:23:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T16:23:53","slug":"obama-my-signature-legislation-is-here-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=51128","title":{"rendered":"Obama: my signature legislation is here to stay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Though not of course for politicians and their staffers, nor for Obama’s chosen cronies.\u00a0 Some pigs being more equal than others. \u00a0 So you may as well get used to bending over and taking it, subjects<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Declaring that the \u201cAffordable Care Act<\/a> is here to stay,\u201d President Obama on Thursday urged Americans to ignore Republican misgivings about his signature legislative achievement just five days before the launch of open enrollment in Obamacare.<\/p>\n

Unable to shake persistent wariness of his health care reforms, the president insisted<\/a> that Americans would warm to the new health law once they understand how it works.<\/p>\n

\u201cGo check it out for yourself; make up your own mind,\u201d the president said in Largo, Md., just miles from the White House.<\/p>\n

Obama added that Republicans weren’t worried that his health care overhaul would fail, but that it would actually work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, of course. Because we mouthbreathers — unlike the post-partisan Obama — care only about politics.\u00a0 The fact that study after study, along with real-world reactions to the law that we’re already seeing, give lie to the President’s suggestion that we’ll learn to love our new subjecthood, is an inconvenient truth that can be glossed over and bracketed by the promise of more lofty, flowery Utopian rhetoric of the upopular law’s future<\/em> successes.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Over the next six months, the administration will look to convince the uninsured to sign up for the most comprehensive overhaul to the health care system since Medicare was created in 1965.<\/p>\n

To hear Obama tell it, beginning next week, Americans will easily be able to shop for competitive health plans.<\/p>\n

Republicans counter that the federal government and states aren\u2019t prepared to facilitate the massive network of exchanges. The administration already delayed the mandate that employers provide their workers with health insurance or pay a fine, GOP leaders point out.<\/p>\n

Obama on Thursday looked to frame his appeal in personal terms, telling the friendly Maryland audience about a family trip to the hospital when he was just a young father.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were fortunate enough to have good health insurance,\u201d Obama said. \u201cI remember looking around the emergency room and thinking, \u2018what about the parents that aren\u2019t that lucky?\u2019”<\/p>\n

As Obama championed his health care reforms, congressional Republicans moved ahead with a plan that would link an increase in the nation\u2019s debt ceiling with a one-year delay in Obamacare.<\/p>\n

And Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., came out in support of delaying the individual mandate, giving Republicans ammunition in their anti-Obamacare crusade.<\/p>\n

The president reiterated on Thursday that he would not negotiate around increasing the nation\u2019s borrowing capacity, saying it would be irresponsible for Republicans to risk default and another downgrade of the U.S. credit rating.<\/p>\n

The biggest question Obama has to answer for skeptical observers is whether the costs of their health plans would skyrocket under the federal blueprint.<\/p>\n

A new Bloomberg poll released late Wednesday found that 60 percent of respondents believe Obamacare will increase medical-care costs. One in three Americans said they would be worse off than they were before the law was implemented.<\/p>\n

The president argued that such fears are overblown.<\/p>\n

\u201cThink about it, good health insurance for the price of your cellphone bill,\u201d Obama said in an appeal to younger Americans.<\/p>\n

For Obamacare to succeed, younger, healthier people must enroll or premiums will soar for older, sicker Americans.<\/p>\n

However, Republicans on Thursday were unmoved by the president\u2019s latest health care sales pitch.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt must be frustrating for the president that folks seem to keep tuning out all the happy talk anyway,\u201d Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell<\/a>, R-Ky., said. \u201cWell, it’s not hard to see, frankly, why Americans aren’t buying the spin.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And yet you’re ready to give the Democrats and up or down vote — with the defunding provision stripped out and no allowance for amendments — as part of your “fight” against Obamacare’s implementation, right Senator McConnell?<\/p>\n

We already know the President is a petulant, imperial, true-believer in Marxist wealth redistribution and unbridled centralized power.\u00a0 So we’ve long ago tuned out his happy talk.<\/p>\n

It’s the “spin” that you and your establishment GOP old boy’s club is trying to pass off — you’ll vote against ObamaCare once you’ve assured its passage by Democrats in the House, so that you can gain politically from it when it crushes the American people (but not you, conveniently!) — that we aren’t buying.<\/p>\n

We want protection from the bad law.\u00a0 We don’t exist to help you out\u00a0 in the political long game.\u00a0 Real lives of real constituents are going to be ruined.\u00a0 You can stop it.\u00a0 But you won’t.<\/p>\n

So don’t piss on our heads and tell us it’s the Democrats who are claiming it’s but a cleansing rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though not of course for politicians and their staffers, nor for Obama’s chosen cronies.\u00a0 Some pigs being more equal than others. \u00a0 So you may as well get used to bending over and taking it, subjects: Declaring that the \u201cAffordable Care Act is here to stay,\u201d President Obama on Thursday urged Americans to ignore Republican misgivings about his signature legislative achievement just five days before the launch of open enrollment<\/p>\n

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