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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsREAL Republicans should love ObamaCare. Here are four reasons why:
http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2013/09/25/real-republicans-should-love-obamacare-here-are-four-reasons-why/Oh, fuck it, here's almost the whole damned post from my blog. I'm too tired to pick out snips.
Number A: It is market-based, using the power of competition to lower prices and offer better quality. Republicans love that sort of free-market solution.
Letter 2: It is reducing the Federal Budget Deficit, which means a reduction in the increase of the National Debt. Republicans love deficit and debt reduction.
Thirdly: It takes a whole raft of people who have been free riders and makes them pay for their health care. Republicans love individual responsibility.
Finally: ObamaCare was originally created by the Heritage Foundation, a Republican think tank.
Kind of hard to hard to argue with, innit? These are all Republican ideas, enacted by a Democratic Prexy and a Democratic Congress. Why, any real Republican would be in seventh Heaven over it all.
So, that means anyone who claims to be a Republican but hates ObamaCare must not be a real Republican. Indeed, they would be Republicans in name only. Thats pretty much what this writer (along with millions of disaffected moderate Repubs) has been saying since, oh, about 1979 or so. The party that calls itself Republican is in fact going berserk, trying to destroy a health care policy that it should be embracing.
To all the real Republicans who are still out there: do us all a favor and kick these Reaganista charlatans out of your party, and take it back. Please. Then we can all return to a bunch of rational grownups running the show, having meaningful debates, reaching compromises, and just generally governing according to the rule of law and basic principles.
Instead of just mindlessly, reflexively hating anything and everything that comes from a Black President, even if the original idea was from Repubs in the first place. Which is exactly what Republicans are doing with ObamaCare.
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REAL Republicans should love ObamaCare. Here are four reasons why: (Original Post)
riqster
Sep 2013
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(36,974 posts)1. Check out the DU OP video on the link below
riqster
(13,986 posts)2. Very cool!
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)3. Well, there you go...
riqster
(13,986 posts)4. Again....