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vi5

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8. Someone's a lot more optimistic than I am......

Reply to craigmatic (Reply #2)

Wed Jul 4, 2012, 05:27 PM

Jul 2012

I don't have any hopes that the ACA even exists 5-10 year from now.

Hell abortion rights are on their last legs and voting rights are headed down the drain thanks to the slow and steady persistence of the GOP, and those were set into law 40-50 years ago, and 10-15 years ago it would have been inconceivable that both would be whittled away by the GOP as much as they have been.

I have no hope for a law that was just passed recently, in this climate, and with the direction this country is going in.

May you be proven right, and I be proven so very, very wrong.

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It's going down in history as "Obamacare" [View all] lunatica Jul 2012 OP

I hope you are right! mucifer Jul 2012 #1

20 years from now conservatives will be trying to say that they created the law when it's popular. craigmatic Jul 2012 #2

Someone's a lot more optimistic than I am...... vi5 Jul 2012 #8

The anti abortion laws are at the State level lunatica Jul 2012 #10

Again...I hope I'm wrong.... vi5 Jul 2012 #14

It won't be long before Politicalboi Jul 2012 #3

It'll be known as the Obamacare Act lunatica Jul 2012 #4

And they'll go down in history as TeaBaggers... lame54 Jul 2012 #5

You're right! lunatica Jul 2012 #6

I'll call them that as long as they... lame54 Jul 2012 #21

Bingo! BumRushDaShow Jul 2012 #7

Let's use it as a positive term now just to piss the fuckers off. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #9

Definitely lunatica Jul 2012 #11

While I'm happy the Affordable Care Act or as many like to call it Obamacare was upheld by the SC, sad sally Jul 2012 #12

I believe it will be improved in time lunatica Jul 2012 #13

I've been calling it Obamacare for a while now. Whisp Jul 2012 #16

The disappointment should be aimed at Congress, because... Amonester Jul 2012 #22

I think we should all call it Obamacare. For one thing to mock the repukes and to remind them rhett o rick Jul 2012 #15

Obama campaign now using the term ''Obamacare'' in campaign ads, see link below Tx4obama Jul 2012 #17

A lot of common labels started out as pejoratives. Odin2005 Jul 2012 #18

We can hope it goes down in history as an intermediate stage... JackRiddler Jul 2012 #19

Also realize that these so called Iliyah Jul 2012 #20

100% correct malaise Jul 2012 #23