Tell me again how the people will get the right take on Obamacare? [View all]

[Savannahmann]

Poll numbers are dropping. Vulnerable Democrats are abandoning ship. But the cheerleaders here are still insisting that somehow, someway, the people will get the proper spin from the beneficial law. Sure, some may be screwed, but fuck them, the majority is what matters.

Really? Is that what matters? On 9-11 roughly 3,000 people died. That is 3,000 out of the 300 million or so. A tiny fraction were directly affected. Figure a couple million had a friend of family member who was killed. But that tiny minority who was affected either directly or indirectly was enough that this nation passed the PATRIOT ACT and fired up the most asinine of departments, Homeland Insecurity.

We went ape shit as a people. Katrina, one small slice of America was affected. One medium sized city, and the areas around it. But it was such a debacle that the polarity of the Congress was changed to our favor. A relative few compared to the more than 300 million were affected, and the nation was outraged.

But somehow, we pretend that those few who were negatively affected by Obamacare won't be enough to affect the outcome of elections. The handful of Democrats who stood up and objected to the war in Iraq were lucky to keep their offices. But this doesn't apply we're told. The cheerleaders have announced that the public will get the right message in time.

Messages like this from NBC news. http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/15/21482622-insurers-state-officials-say-cancellation-of-health-care-policies-just-as-they-predicted?lite

Several insurance industry officials and state insurance commissioners expressed frustration Friday, saying they were “baffled” by President Barack Obama’s assertion that the cancellation of millions of insurance policies occurred because a key provision of the Affordable Care Act didn’t work as expected. The administration was warned three years ago that regulations would have exactly that effect, they said.

They said the widespread cancellations in the individual health insurance market — roughly 5 million and counting -- are in line with what was projected under regulations drawn up by the administration in 2010, requirements that both insurers and businesses objected to at the time. Cancellations also are occurring in the small group market, which covers businesses with between two and 50 employees, they noted.

But these news stories don't matter. Because they're not being carried by our approved news sources, and the American People would never believe something from CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and even MSNBC. I'm not sure what channels are approved, since all of them are addressing the issue. But that doesn't matter, because the people will appreciate what we've done for the majority.

Gang, we had better get serious, or we are going to find ourselves looking at Republican Majorities in both houses of Congress. If that happens, we will lie to ourselves about how stupid the voters were and how the Republicans cheated. Well, if we let the voters down, and we don't get smart, we have no right to expect them to support them. We have to earn their vote every god damned election, and we act like they owe us the vote. Every time we get that attitude, we lose.