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To: tejek who wrote (780695)	4/19/2014 8:36:25 PM
From: SiouxPal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1582737

Republican FINALLY Admits The GOP Is The Party Of No Ideas Rep. Dennis Ross (R-Doomed) is completely screwed. He did the unthinkable. The inconceivable. The forbidden. He told the truth when asked about his party’s assault on Obamacare: “I think one of the most unfortunate things my party did the last three years was not offer an alternative to health care,” Ross responded. “I’ve always felt that way. I think it’s absurd when I tell people that this isn’t what you should do, but I don’t have an alternative for you.”“I wish we had an alternative. It would make — you know what’s unfortunate? for the next six months, we’regoing to go into an election knowing that we’re not going to do anything to address health care. Because we’ve gone so far in the last three years saying no, that we don’t have an alternative to say yes to” Holy crap! He’s really is completey screwed. Republicans scatter like roaches from truth. If he doesn’t get primaried for this, it’s only because there’s not enough time to put someone on the ballot that thinks Obamacare will force everyone to become a vegan. The core problem for Republicans is that Obamacare fixes a great many problems with the old system. Problems that anyone familiar with them hated with the fire of a thousand burning stars. Pre-existing conditions, rescission, lifetime caps, etc. were destroying the lives of millions of Americans a year. The only way to stop that without instituting Single Payer (aka “Medicare for all”) was to force insurance companies to stop these practices. Sounds reasonable, right? Not so fast. Part of the reason insurance companies did these rather despicable things (aside from base greed) was that allowing anyone with any illness to enroll at anytime is very, very expensive. So expensive, in fact, that insurance becomesunaffordable for everyone. Don’t believe me? Ask Paul Ryan, the GOP’s wonder boy: “If you look at these kinds of reforms, where they’ve been tried before — say the state of Kentucky, for example — you basically make it impossible to underwrite insurance,” Ryan told Bloomberg’s Al Hunt when asked if Republicans would maintain the pre-existing conditions regulations, dependent coverage extension, and other rate requirements. “You dramatically crank up the cost. And you make it hard for people to get affordable health care,” Ryan insisted. The only “free market” solution? The Individual Mandate the GOP came up with. That’s why they came up with it in the first place. They know very well that our health care system is fundamentally broken and it’s strangling our economy. Unfortunately for Americans, socialized medicine (the obvious and best solution) is anathema to Republicans so free market it is. Even with the magic of the free market, youstillcan’t have all the good stuff without the individual mandate. Period. The GOP knows this, too. But because they decided from Day One that they would not work with President Obama on anything, the Republicans went full in on attacking their very own idea. An idea, I might add, that happens to be working. Now that it’s in place, people have quickly adjusted to the idea that, yes, they would like to keep their insurance if they get cancer and not go bankrupt to stay alive. They also like the idea of not having annual or lifetime caps. And keeping your kids on until they graduate college and can afford their own insurance is pretty darn good idea, too. So how can the GOP offer an alternative that keeps all the good stuff that people really, REALLY want but get rid of that mean ol’ Individual Mandate? They can’t. They never could, so all they have left is to bluff and bluster and attack and lie and distort and maybe, MAYBE, they can win a few more elections before people realize that they have no plan of their own to offer and never did. In the meantime, Republicans like Dennis Ross are surely going to find themselves on the receiving end of a nasty phone call from the GOPmuckity mucks telling him to shut the f**k up before he gives away the game. addictinginfo.org

To: tejek who wrote (780695)	4/19/2014 9:10:29 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1582737

Franklin Graham: Putin is right to protect children by banning homosexual propaganda Saturday, April 19, 2014 8:20:09 PM · by WilliamIII · 25 replies The Right Scoop ^ \| Mar 14 2014 \| The Right Scoop

To: tejek who wrote (780695)	4/19/2014 9:11:34 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1582737

Maryland Obamacare exchange spent $90 million on technology before abandoning website .................................................................................... The Daily Caller News Foundation ^ \| April 19, 2014 \| Sarah Hurtubise

To: tejek who wrote (780695)	4/19/2014 9:15:34 PM
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High school senior forms petition with over ONE THOUSAND signatures against Michele Obama speaking.. .............................................................. dailymail.co.uk ^ \| 4/19/14 \| AP