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kansasobama

(1,750 posts)
Tue Sep 30, 2014, 08:05 PM Sep 2014

Much of the Affordable Care Act must be defunded

Much of the Affordable Care Act must be defunded and millions of Americans must lose their health insurance, according to an opinion issued Tuesday by Judge Ronald A. White, an Oklahoma federal judge appointed to the bench by George W. Bush.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/09/30/3574002/breaking-republican-judge-orders-obamacare-defunded/

So, what do our supporters need to get motivated? C'mon, Friends. Stop moaning about Obama did not do this or that.

We are under attack by crazies..

By the way, Oklahoma and the crazy states including my state of Kansas wants a Health Care compact to replace federal Medicare and HealthCare funded by, guess what, federal dollars. So, why don't they secede...

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Much of the Affordable Care Act must be defunded (Original Post) kansasobama Sep 2014 OP
Well, Judge White is just a big purple throbbing... NYC_SKP Sep 2014 #1
Word. He can join that ever-expanding group. nt babylonsister Sep 2014 #3
Well, Medicare is well-established law MannyGoldstein Sep 2014 #2
And all that will remain of the ACA after the Republican hack job on it is the mandatory TAX! blkmusclmachine Sep 2014 #4
They'd love to secede Prophet 451 Sep 2014 #5
 

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
1. Well, Judge White is just a big purple throbbing...
Tue Sep 30, 2014, 08:12 PM
Sep 2014

boil on the ass of the worst kind of republicanism.

 

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)
2. Well, Medicare is well-established law
Tue Sep 30, 2014, 08:21 PM
Sep 2014

Expanding that to cover everyone would have been legally safe.

 

blkmusclmachine

(16,149 posts)
4. And all that will remain of the ACA after the Republican hack job on it is the mandatory TAX!
Tue Sep 30, 2014, 08:25 PM
Sep 2014

Prophet 451

(9,796 posts)
5. They'd love to secede
Tue Sep 30, 2014, 09:49 PM
Sep 2014

but they got their asses kicked last time and likely would again. So they've settled for trying to make the entire country into a new Confederacy.

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