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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Freeper on March 22, 2010, 09:09:25 AM

Title: New DU meme: Mandates are the Republicans fault.
Post by: Freeper on March 22, 2010, 09:09:25 AM

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sabrina 1  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Mon Mar-22-10 02:53 AM
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12. Keith Olbermann has said he will fight the mandate
   
by not buying insurance in solidarity with those who are being forced to buy something they cannot afford. But then, Obama once believed mandates were wrong also.

I hope Keith hasn't changed his mind, or had it changed for him.

I like the idea. Mandates are a Republican idea.

I think I lost a lot of respect for Obama the day I heard him repeat that Republican talking point that 'people without insurance cannot be allowed to continue to be a burden on the rest of us'.

Republicans use that kind of baiting tactic all the time, I expect it of them. But when I heard him do it, especially since he once said that 'mandates would require an enforcement mechanism and it would be wrong to force people to buy something they cannot afford', I was crushed. Having fought that kind of baiting meant to arouse anger towards other people for so long with rightwingers, it was devastating to hear him use it against the poor.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7981463

Next they will claim that George W Bush added the mandates to the bill.  :mental:

Sorry, DUmmies the mandates were put into law by the democrats. The GOP voted against it.