DUmmies still trying to blame conservatives for their EffUp.

[thundley4]

kpete   (1000+ posts)             Wed Mar-24-10 12:01 PM
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Health bill included big Republican idea: individual mandate   
   

Source: McClatchy

Health bill included big Republican idea: individual mandate

By John Dorschner | Miami Herald

The lawsuit against the health care overhaul filed Tuesday by Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is focused on a provision that has long been advocated by conservatives, big business and the insurance industry.

The lawsuit by McCollum, a candidate for governor, and 12 other attorneys general, focuses on the provision that virtually all Americans will need to have health insurance by 2014 or face penalties.

The lawsuit calls this an "unprecedented encroachment on the liberty of individuals." It states the Constitution doesn't authorize such a mandate, the proposed tax penalty is unlawful and is an "unprecedented encroachment on the sovereignty of the states."

"The truth is this is a Republican idea," said Linda Quick, president of the South Florida Hospital and Healthcare Association. She said she first heard the concept of the "individual mandate" in a Miami speech in the early 1990s by Sen. John McCain, a conservative Republican from Arizona, to counter the "Hillarycare" the Clintons were proposing.

  http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8005890

For the thousandth time , DUmmies, this mandate crap was put into the bill before the GOP was even offered a seat at the table.

Oregone   (1000+ posts)           Wed Mar-24-10 12:06 PM
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1. Dupe
   
The whole plan goes back as far as Nixon too....I mean the whole shebang.

The Democrats brought an old rejected Republican idea into law.

DJ13 (1000+ posts)           Wed Mar-24-10 12:07 PM
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2. "The truth is this is a Republican idea,"
   
The truth is that they never followed through on it, so now its a Democratic idea.

Bingo. Give that DUmmie his pizza for speaking the truth.

dkf   (1000+ posts)             Wed Mar-24-10 12:09 PM
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3. Democrats are implementing republican policy
   
We are now center right. There is no room for the center left much less the true left.

Bull hockey. This bill is way left.

Small bonfire.

[delilahmused]

“We’re not ready to be doing it.  But let me remind you, this has been going on for years. We are bringing it to a halt. The harsh fact of the matter is when you’re going to pass legislation that will cover 300 [million] American people in different ways it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.”
Senior Democratic House Congressman John Dingell

nuff said!

Cindie

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

But all we keep hearing is:

spanone  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) 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 10:10 AM
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again.....not ONE ****ing republican vote....NOT ONE

I wish they would make up their tiny minds about what it is exactly they are upset about.

[Karin]

Cindie, your quote there has gone unbelievably viral.  Asshat doesn't understand Americans, does he?

Tangentially related re Fups:  Did anyone hear Rush today at noon?  You know how the Dems are out touting the fact that children won't be affected by pre-existing conditions right off the bat?  Turns out that's not in the bill.  It was left out.  (AP reportage).

Also, a DUmmy was seen walking into a doctor's office looking for free stuff yesterday.  "Didn't you hear?  The bill passed!  This visit is free!"  Probably happened all over the country.  I'd love to hear more examples of that. 

[thundley4]

But all we keep hearing is:

I wish they would make up their tiny minds about what it is exactly they are upset about.

Don't you see?  The evil rethuglicans were so damn smart, that they fooled the DemonRats into passing the bill they really wanted to.

[The Village Idiot]

Something every GOPer voted against is a "Republican idea"???

[Tantal]

Also, a DUmmy was seen walking into a doctor's office looking for free stuff yesterday.  "Didn't you hear?  The bill passed!  This visit is free!"  Probably happened all over the country.  I'd love to hear more examples of that. 

I've heard about this too, but my Google-Fu has failed me. If anyone has a link to this story, or one similar, it would be greatly appreciated.

[ColonialMarine0431]

I've heard about this too, but my Google-Fu has failed me. If anyone has a link to this story, or one similar, it would be greatly appreciated.

On Rush, a woman went to the doctor yesterday and expected to receive free medical treatment on demand. The level of the deceived idiots of the Obama-ites, some think it is Christmas day all year around now. Liberalism, the road to hedonistic elitist greedy imbecility.

http://chat.anncoulter.com/phpBB3///viewtopic.php?f=2&t=97355&start=2135

Why Wait Until 2014? Demand All Obamacare Provisions Right Now


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