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Repealing ObamaCare Is Scary To Gutless Progressives Fearing Reform

Posted on | March 25, 2014 | 54 Comments

by Smitty

What is different about Republican calls for repeal today — as opposed to calls for repeal from 2010 to the end of 2013 — is that Obamacare is now in place. It exists. Exchanges are running — many of them badly, but running. subsidies are being paid. Insurance companies have changed the way they do business. Medicaid has been expanded. Special taxes are being collected.

Even though the system is new, millions of Americans have gone to a lot of trouble to adjust to it, and it would be disruptive to them to just stop cold. Halt subsidies? Undo Medicaid expansion? Just as last fall, when millions of Americans received coverage cancellation notices, millions more would face new burdens under the repeal of Obamacare.

Oh, so the camel’s nose is under the tent, the first dope hit was free, and the bint was asking for it?

These problems can melt away with the courage of honesty. Stand there and tell the truth that ObamaCare has been false at every stage of its misbegotten existence, from the prosecutorial lynching of Ted Stevens on. Just list the play-by-play of the shenanigans that occurred. Reiterate the economic damage. Build the case that ObamaCare is the Battle of the Progressive Bulge, and here is where we turn back the (inter)National Socialists.
Via Marshall Locke, we have Arthur Brooks:

I hear Brooks’s point: you have to care about people, both in an immediate sense, and in the long term sense. People, particularly the unreflective, live in the present tense. Pondering life in greater depth is something you do as you grow. However, Progressivism is your eternal bureaucratic diaper. Just vote for more Huggies.

The challenge for the conservatives is to goad the GOP into a national poddy training program, so that future generations can return to wearing big boy pants.

More specifically, the GOP needs to do this by

  • budgeting
  • driving toward a balanced budget
  • cutting the Progressive cord, and letting the states own their own safety net programs, as lean or as lavish as they care to pay for

The real requirement, though, is the leadership. The rejection of Progressive homo beaurocratus as an ideal. We could be deep in the hurt locker here.

Category: Barack Obama, Health Care

Comments

54 Responses to “Repealing ObamaCare Is Scary To Gutless Progressives Fearing Reform”

  1. Adjoran
    March 27th, 2014 @ 3:30 am

    You sir, are the liar. According to Sebelius, she cannot tell us how many have paid their premiums, so unless you have secret access to more details, you cannot assert that any number now has coverage, can you?

  2. Jerry Garner
    March 27th, 2014 @ 11:27 am

    Well we can call each other liars all day, but the fact is the ACA is helping people get health coverage that they could not afford in the past. This program is
    probably not for you, so just pay the small penalty for not having insurance and live a long and rewarding life and hope that you never get sick.

  3. K-Bob
    March 27th, 2014 @ 4:54 pm

    I at least got that part. So it wasn’t 100% fail. Just 98%.

  4. Daniel O'Brien
    March 27th, 2014 @ 6:09 pm

    Well as the saying goes, if you aren’t failing, you aren’t trying hard enough…. Cheers!