Democrats promise to fix healthcare reform if they are re-elected
An interesting scenario is beginning to emerge in the mid-term elections–during a normal campaign incumbent candidates run on their accomplishments, but in this campaign Democrats are running from their accomplishments.
Sensing the anger among the American people with the way the Obama regime has conducted business–ie ramming healthcare reform through the Congress while ignoring the obvious message sent by the American people–Democrats have been trying to distance themselves from Barack Obama in an attempt to get re-elected. This is quite reminiscent of the way Republicans tried to win re-election in 2006, but now some Democrats are trying yet another tactic in their bids to be re-elected.
Some Democrats are now admitting what the American people knew before the healthcare legislation was passed–that this bill is a disaster and does nothing to bring down the cost of healthcare–and are running on the promise that if they are re-elected they will work to fix the new law.
This has got to be a first in American politics–a group of people admitting that they passed a disastrous piece of legislation and then trying to run on the premise that only they can fix the legislation they screwed up in the first place! Democrats want a second chance on healthcare reform!
I want to reform it and fix it and make sure that it works for small businesses and their families,” Alexi Giannoulias, the Democrat seeking President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat, said on “Meet the Press” on Sunday
If you can fix it — Democrats and Republicans agree on six or seven items — that’s a pretty darn good start,” West Virginia Gov. and Democratic Senate candidate Joe Manchin told Fox News on MondayI’d like to fix health care,” Democratic Kentucky Senate candidate Jack Conway said in a debate last week with Republican contender Rand Paul
“Is the bill perfect? Absolutely not,” Rep. Brad Ellsworth said during a debate with other Indiana Senate candidates Monday. “Will it be added to and deleted from? It will.”
North Dakota Rep. Earl Pomeroy told one local newspaper last month that “improvements need to be made” in the bill. Then he followed up by telling another paper that “none of us believe our work is done or that the bill is perfect.”
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I’m sorry but I busted out laughing when I read this! Oh yeah. Uh huh! Let’s just give them another shot at it! Yeah. I think not!
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It is so absurd that it is laughable. Their angle is “we broke it so we know how to fix it.” If that is your campaign slogan you are in trouble.
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Campaign slogan ? I think that’s called, DESPERATION! 🙂
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AGREED!
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Do we give bank robbers the keys to the bank in hopes that they’ll improve the security for the future? I’m not buying it.
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I don’t think too may Americans are going to buy this logic either.
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How can the fix what is totally broken?
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I say repeal and start over!
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We’ve got a really interesting race going on here in the Florida Panhandle, Dist 2.
First, I’ve already reported a couple of months back that we had an absolutely amazing Republican primary in which all five candidates discussed ISSUES, and did not tear each other apart. I heard three of them, in person (I attended all the rallies I could to see what was what), say that they thought they were best for Congress, but would proudly support and vote for any of the other four should they win. Talk about a fainting spell!
The best part is coming, though. We have an incumbent Democrat Congresscritter who has been in the House for 12 years. Tallahassee is a big, blue pimple in an otherwise scarlet red regions, being a capital city with state offices, two major universities, and three community colleges… and virtually no industry. All of the businesses in town seem to be servicing the state offices and colleges. The biggest lump of the Dist 2 population is inside Tallahassee city limits, so we’re distinctly “blue” in the city.
Over the last 12 years, Allen Boyd, D, has had a “safe” seat. In fact, in 2006 and 2008, he ran unopposed.
This year, however, he IS BEHIND THE REPUBLICAN CHALLENGER! Steve Southerland is out-polling Boyd by 52-37%!!!
This is unheard of here. And the cause is the health care bill.
Boyd made the claim that he actually READ all 2000+ pages of the bill and understood what was in it, and said he wouldn’t vote for it because there were some things in it he didn’t like.
Then he went back to DC and voted for it, making the claim that the things he didn’t like could be fixed later.
That completely cooked his goose. Not one person who heard him claim that he’d read the thing believed him because no one who had read the it could possibly have wanted to vote for it, it being 2000+ pages of non-specific bureaucratic gobbledygoop. The reasons he gave for not wanting to vote for it completely missed the point of the objections that were given to him in the town hall meeting where he made the claim that he’d read it. The people in the meeting were complaining that it was too big, too obscure, and too much government, and that there was no way it could be “fixed” by tinkering with the details.
It was almost as if he reacted to our disbelief with an, “I’ll show them!” tantrum and voted for it anyway.
Now he’s trying to reclaim the “safe” seat he once had. Whatever his motive for voting for the health care bill, it was perceived as contempt for the people here, and he is paying the price for it.
The upshot of it all is that we’re going to have the first Republican Congresscritter we’ve EVER had! 😀
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This is great news indeed! I think this scenario is going to be played out all over the country in November.
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Let me see if I can get this straight in my head. The Democrats passed a bill to fix healthcare, so they could find out what was in the bill. Now that it is becoming increasingly clear that the consequences of the bill are more than a little unintended, they want to go back and add to the misery by fixing the broken bill.
Yeah, right!
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How is that for convoluted logic!? Maybe they thinkif they talk themselves arpund in circles the voters will get dizzy and confused and vote them back in.
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The only way to fix something that is unconstitutional is to repeal or the states need to nullify it. I’m not a fan of replacing it. We need to allow people to purchase their insurance across state lines and tort reform. Those two things alone will drive the cost of insurance down across the board.
Great post Steve.
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I agree, scrap the whole thing. Allowing people to buy insurance over state lines and TORT reform will be a great start in bringing down the costs of healthcare–something this bill doesn’t even address.
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Thanks but no thanks Dems
We’ll take it from here… you bozos can hold open the dumpster lid if you want to lend a hand lol
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They had their chance, now it is time for them to pay the price!
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Fix it?? LMAO… DUMP IT! And dump the Dems in the process…
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Scrap this disaster (both the bill and the Dems.)
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The GOP is responsible for this economic mess, yet they point fingers at President Obama.
Things got so bad under Bush that it will take more than two years to fix this mess.
The Republicans are blaming the Democrats for doing nothing, but the Dems are trying.
This mess is very large and it will be fixed.
Remember that it was the Republican Party that did nothing while things were getting worse.
Would you want the GOP to gain control?
NEVER again.
Keep voting them out.
We are on the right track.
It is taking time, but a GOP mess this big will.
Blame the Republicans and remember that when you vote.
George Vreeland Hill
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So Barack Obama focused on a healthcare reform bill that nobody wanted for over a year instead of on the economy?
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Aw Steve, this guy has come here to correct us. We’ve been mesmerized by reality, and must be cured with Democratic talking points. Get ready for the Kool-Aid!
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Obama did say that we are so angry that we aren’t thinking straight, thankfully George is here to set us straight!
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George said: ” The Republicans are blaming the Democrats for doing nothing, but the Dems are trying.”
Trying to do what? Every municipality, every state in which Democrats have long held control is a disaster area. Now, their “solutions” have essentially bankrupted the entire country. And BTW, the economic mess, while certainly a bipartisan effort, was triggered largely by the machinations of Democrats Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, with roots in the Housing & Community Development Act of 1977, written by the 95th Congress (Democrat majority), and signed into law by Democrat Jimmy Carter.
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Bob, sit down, take a deep breath and listen to me man, I am going to explain this for you…
OK… Ready??
Good…
Here’s the truth, the whole truth, and nothing BUT the truth…
GEORGE VREELAND HILL is a left-wing, loony-toons moonbat…
See?? The TRUTH will set you free… 😛
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