During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In the summer of 2012, it’s squishy Republican politicians who deserve the grassroots flames.
In case you hadn’t heard, even if the Supreme Court overturns the progressives’ federal health care juggernaut, prominent GOP leaders vow to preserve its most “popular” provisions. These big-government Republicans show appalling indifference to the dire market disruptions and culture of dependency that Obamacare schemes have wrought.
GOP Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, vice chair of the Senate GOP Conference, told a St. Louis radio station two weeks ago that he supports keeping at least three Obamacare regulatory pillars: federally imposed coverage of “children” up to age 26 on their parents’ health insurance policies (the infamous, unfunded “slacker mandate”), federally mandated coverage regardless of pre-existing conditions (“guaranteed issue,” which leads to an adverse-selection death spiral) and closure of the coverage gap in the massive Bush-backed Medicare drug entitlement (the “donut hole fix” that will obliterate the program’s cost-controls).
Some Republicans are even trying to out-Obama Obamacare. GOP Rep. Steve Stivers of Ohio is pushing a proposal to increase the mandatory coverage age for dependents to age 31. And once a fire-breathing dragon for repeal, GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee hem-hawed when asked by the liberal Talking Points Memo website whether Republicans would be introducing specific bills to preserve the guaranteed issue and slacker mandate provisions.
“Well, I think we need to be prepared,” Alexander told TPM. “And we will be prepared.”
Read More at Accuracy in Media. By Michelle Malkin.
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Get rid of Obamacare entirely, and get rid of these RINO traitors!
Hang them & put them on public display for being turncoats!!
Would you please name the big government republicans and or rinos? I constantly hear about the rino's but no names are ever mentioned.
I totally agree with Bill from Laos. Hang the useless sons of sows! I’d call them a more “earthy” name, but I am doing my best to clean up my language………..kinda hard to do with all the manure piling up around us from the cesspool full of those continually depositing in said cesspool! The RINOS are the ones who do not speak clearly as to what they uphold, and who, like old crybaby, Weeper of the House, Boner, show themselves for what they are, COWARDS AND TRAITORS! Listen carefull, and read what they say, they are not hard to find! Those who are not with us, are against us! Darrell Issa is one who is WITH US! And, the senator who blasted Holder in session is another who is WITH US! They who are against us are not hard to find, if you pay attention to those who kiss the behind of the DISEASE IN OFFICE! Hillary, (cankles) Clinton is one who is against us………..she and her antigun crusade. There has to be a list of names somewhere. And someone has to know who they are, and would be willing to let us know. Whatever, it is we, the people, who can really make the difference, and rid our nation of this Disease in Office, and all of his Czars and thugs, and outright Criminal element in Washington. Let’s just say that about 95% of those in the house, the senate, and congress are Criminals and be done with it. And then, proceed to vote out every incumbent that has INFECTED our nation for years. Only those we know to be Conservatives should we allow to stay. There are a few, maybe a good 10, although that is probably stretching it, like Lot and the cities of Soddom and Gomorrah. He could not find 5 good men in those cities, and our nation’s capitol is almost exactly the same, not even 10 good men or women there. So we can research and see what or who, we can come up with, before November.