Republicans: We want to negotiate concerning the upcoming budget.
Obama: OK.
Republicans: We need you to completely shut down the one program that was your biggest accomplishment, that was passed by both Houses of Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court, and which we have spent the last three years trying to destroy but have been unable to.
Obama: Uh, no, that’s not going to happen.
Republicans: Obama is refusing to negotiate! It’s all his fault the government has shut down!
This is how democracy works: Sometimes the majority is against you and you lose. Your solution is to work to get people elected who will change the law.
Holding a temper tantrum and shutting down government until you get your way is not how democracy works.
Look, Republicans: You lost. You lost in 2008 when Obama had health care as part of his platform and you lost in 2012 after it had been enacted. Your candidate vowed to get rid of Obamacare and he lost. If it wasn’t for gerrymandering, you would have lost the House too since more people voted for Democrats. In fact, in five of the past six Presidential elections, more people voted against you than for you.
You lost. Even the lawsuit you filed to stop Obamacare lost.
Grow up and deal with it.
Senator McCain gets it. He took to the floor last night and reminded his GOP colleagues that the law passed after lengthy debate. McCain said “the people spoke” on the matter when they reelected Obama in 2012 and rejected GOP candidate Mitt Romney — whose main selling point was that he would repeal the health care law.
“We fought as hard as we could in a fair and honest manner and we lost,” McCain said. “One of the reasons was because we were in the minority, and in democracies, almost always the majority governs and passes legislation.”
So, Republicans — don’t like Obamacare? Maybe you might want to try getting the support of the American people and winning an election. I heard that works.
Republicans were pleased today when Senator Cruz was replaced by a wacky and lovable inflatable promotional tube today.
“Look at him, isn’t he great?” said Senator McCain as the tube fluttered and bounced around behind the Senate podium. “It’s much more fun to watch than Senator Cruz, and accomplishes the same thing he did without having to worry about bathroom breaks.”
When some complained that the tube was not appropriate, supporters pointed out that both the tube and the Texas Senator were very similar, since they were both brainless and filled with hot air.
Let’s recap.
What we now call “Obamacare” was first proposed by the very conservative Heritage Foundation.
During the Clinton administration, the very conservative Newt Gingrich proposed adopting it instead of what they then called “Hillarycare.”
When very conservative Bob Dole ran for President, adopting it was part of the Republican platform.
Later, the very conservative Mitt Romney pushed it in Massachusetts, where it proved to work well and be fairly popular among the citizens of that state.
Now, very conservative people are calling it “socialism” (it clearly isn’t) and claiming that it is the worst idea in the entire world. They of course have no alternative plan, because Obamacare was their alternative plan before.
Just don’t fool yourself: If a Republican were President today, they would be pushing this plan proudly as their own (which it is). But because it was promoted by President Obama, it is clearly the one thing that will destroy our country.
I am constantly amazed by the gigantic hypocrisy we see on the Republican side concerning this issue.
There are some ridiculous commercials out now urging young people to “opt out” of Obamacare.
The commercials feature a huge Uncle Sam puppet about to give a woman a gynecological exam.
Because, you know, if there’s one thing Republicans are against, it’s having the government force women to have unnecessary gynecological examinations, am I right, ladies?
But more importantly, it’s the message here: Please, they say, break the law. Don’t buy insurance.
Really?
Can you imagine what they’d say if there was an ad saying “Please don’t allow the evil government to force you to buy car insurance!”?
Apparently they have run out of options, because the law is here and it’s staying. So the only thing left to do is tell people to ignore it.
Yeah, use that as an excuse when you’re paying the fine for disobeying it. “But your honor, my Senator told me to disobey this law!” See how well that works, and then get back to me. I could use the work.
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