Because of a screwed up software rollout? I believe it was Microsoft, and every other software company ever, that taught us to leave the first two revs for the bleeding edgers and true believers so they can beta test it. Only suckers buy anything before Rev 3.
Good luck repealing Obamacare when there is a guy named Obama in the White House.
That’s great. You’ve formed your opinions and you’ll vote on that basis.
But you’re one voter out of about 130,000,000. Your vote by itself isn’t going to fuck the Democrats. So the real question is whether the Democrats will lose votes to the Republicans in the next couple of elections. To do that you need to look around and assess how many people share your opinions. And not just the opinions of the people that read the American Thinker.
You need to check poll numbers and see what percent of the American electorate believes ACA has failed. And if they think it’s a failure, what percent blame the Democrats for that failure? And what percent will base their vote on this issue? These are the kind of questions you need to be asking if you want to have a serious discussion about elections.
The government runs the military just fine. And the government runs health care for the military (which I remember rather fondly from my time in the Navy) just fine as well. “The government is incompetent” is nothing more than a right-wing mantra, and is pretty obviously false in many cases. The government is often incompetent, but so is the market (often) – except at making profits.
Nonetheless, I’d love to see the actual data on that, either via a link or another thread. If true, it’s a fascinating factoid.
Recognize yet another implied but unsupported swipe at liberals and do this: :rolleyes:
I’ve got enough relations who parrot the extreme right-wing line to be aware of what’s going on in the conservabubble, and include the more sane of the right-wing publications and a few websites in my reading matter (although my newspaper reading is fairly minimal overall, admittedly).
Is…is this an attempt at humor, or an actual position you hold? I genuinely can’t tell, based on the rest of this thread.
Yep, that really has you coming off as reasonable, all right.
Aside from the general silliness of this assertion, I’m pretty sure the government has never attempted to manufacture paper clips. Perhaps they’d be great at it. I’m willing to stand corrected if there was some sort of grand Paper Clip Initiative (other than the one involving German rocket scientists) I don’t know of.
A few government-run things that seems to work reasonably well:
The Military
Medicare
The Interstate Highway system
The National Parks Service
The air traffic control system
Now I’m sure anyone who really wants to can find all sorts of flaws in all of these, but I’m not seeing that privately-operated insitutions of these types would by inherently better-run, or even simply more efficient or practical. Frankly, I think one would at best be trading one set of problems for another.
OK, can someone help me make sense of this? I mean, obviously, it’s based on a false view of reality, but I can’t even figure out what pieces of reality were falsified for it. Who’s the countess, and who’s the gay Muslim, and how is the latter choosing the former?
Yeah, I cannot make heads nor tails of it either. Is Obama the gay Muslim? Is Countess, I dunno, Caroline Kennedy or something?
Obama and Hillary Clinton, I assume.
Damn, son. What are you? Like five? I really think you ought to put down the Democratic flavored Kool-Aid for a moment and open your eyes.
…Wait. I almost forgot who I was talking to. Carry on.
Looks like YogSosoth got his wish.
Not in the slightest.
Democrats, as a whole, are like the woman who stays with her abusive boyfriend, even though he continues to beat her, and continues to make excuses for him. The fact that she stays with him isn’t an indictment of anyone but herself.
Useful idiots will always be useful idiots. If people want to vote for the party which is content to screw them then, well… You can’t do anything about that except hope that they get tired of being screwed.
Of course, that’s probably asking for a lot but hey… One can hope.
Tip, Omg: A political joke is no good if you can change the party or pol in it without changing the joke.
I’m confused by this mantra by the right on “Obamacare is a trainwreck”. Do they realize that a nice chunk of the ACA is already in palce and working today? And has been for a couple years now? And while the federal exchnage website stinks, the state based exchanges are doing just fine and seeing some nice growth?
The yelling and screaming about folks not able to get healthcare is funny since most of those people trying to get healthcare dont have it today, and if we do nothing won’t have it tomorrow either. So the republican plan to fix folks not able to get healthcare thru the federal exchange is to… not allow anyone at all, anywhere, to get healthcare?
Yes, some folks whose junk policies dont meet the new guidelines lost their policy. But we have created a system that will allow 40 million people to GET healthcare that didn’t have it before. Keep in mind too that some of the 40 million un-insured include folks with jobs, family, etc… who can’t get healtcare because of pre-existing conditions, or have spent the previous life-time caps. Should they be screwed because some healthy 20 year old is upset his “emergency coverage” plan is cancelled? He can get another plan easily… but the folks suffering thru no fault of their own have been screwed for far to long.
I’m not 100% happy with ACA (we should have done better) but im 0% happy that for decades we have turned a blind eye to the folks who needed our help the most. ACA is a start, and its about time we started something.
Doing NOTHING isn’t a policy or a platform.
So, Qube, you gonna clean up your “truth-y” numbers after being corrected on the facts, or just leave them like dog droppings in a house already so littered by trash that a little more just doesn’t matter?
What the fuck are you talking about?
I think this is it, and it’s a reference to the next presidential election.
HRC, I think. Or possibly Sebelius.
No, it’s not doing nothing. It’s repealing the federal overreach and letting states decide what to do with their uninsured citizens. Obamacare has the fig leaf of federalism. Let’s take our founding philosophy a little further than this socialized catastrophe of medicine that only a black person could have “thought” of.