The Republican Disappearing Act

[SHRED]

Republicans In Collapse as Obamacare Enrollment Skyrockets In December

The entire Republican strategy has been to discourage people from enrolling in the ACA Judging by these numbers, they have completely failed. Republicans are basing their entire 2014 and 2016 strategies on running against Obamacare. Their plan is backfiring, and they are setting themselves up for an epic backlash.

Millions of Americans have now signed up for access to affordable healthcare. Republicans, especially Republican Senate candidates, are going to be in a position of having to tell voters in 2014 that their plan is to take away their healthcare. This is why as more people enroll, it won’t be surprising if more Democrats follow the lead of Sen. Mary Landrieu and embrace the ACA as a part of their campaign.

The Republican tactic of campaigning only on opposition to the ACA was running on fumes in 2012. It was a narrowminded and shortsighted strategy that was born out of the fact that the GOP has done zilch for the American people and has no accomplishments to run on. Obamacare was all they had, and now that is vanishing too.

http://www.politicususa.com/2013/12/29/republicans-collapse-obamacare-enrollment-skyrockets-december.html

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And may they continue to gasp in thinner and thinner air.
Serves them right!

[meadowlark5]

1. Didn't Marco Rubio sign his family up for ACA?

I read that he did but can't understand how that was more affordable than his cheap govt insurance. And is he really that frugal that even a couple hundred dollars per month is enough to dump his govt insurance and sign up for the ACA?

Is that story even real? If it is, how can he EVER win a republican primary to run in 2016? Looks like a lot of the once darlings of the tea baggers are becoming tainted one way or another.

[Jim Lane]

3. He doesn't have government insurance, at least not what he used to have

During the ACA debate, Grassley tried a sleazy move for purely political reasons -- proposing an amendment that required Members of Congress to get their insurance through the exchanges (even though the exchanges were set up to provide insurance to people who didn't get insurance through their jobs). Grassley figured that, since his amendment was so monumentally stupid, the Democrats would sensibly reject it, and then he and his fellow partisan hacks could demagogue about how the Democrats were "imposing" exchanges on people but "exempting" themselves. The Democrats, not wanting to expose themselves to this substantively worthless but politically powerful attack, crossed him up by accepting his amendment.

The result is that Members of Congress (and, I think, some senior Congressional staffers and some high-ranking executive branch personnel) no longer get insurance through their jobs.

To soften the blow, Obama directed that the federal government continue to bear the burden for them, in the form of assistance with the insurance premiums on top of their regular salaries. This replaced the free health insurance that they used to get. Of course, the Republicans howled about that, too.

[meadowlark5]

4. Thanks. I remember Grassley proposing it but didn't think it went through nt

[madokie]

2. I'd be ashamed if I was them

but then again I couldn't be one of them as they have no shame

[Motown_Johnny]

5. As I have been saying for about a year now...

(sorry for repeating myself yet again)


...The (R)s made a bet they could not afford to lose, and lost. Since then they have done nothing but double down because they were unable to pay the political price as it came due.


This tactic won't work forever.


What they are doing reflects the same thinking as that which brought us the government shutdown. Anyone with a brain knew in advance that it couldn't work, yet it was done anyways.

I sincerely hope they get their asses handed to them in the 2014 elections. We need another 2 years with a majority in both The House and Senate while President Obama is in office. We need it badly.

[B Calm]

6. Most of the ones I know call their self Independent or Libertarian to disappear.

I know the post is about Obamacare, but I couldn't help myself after reading the title of the thread.