Except For The Fact That He Beat Them Twice-Conservatives Really DON'T have Any Reason To Hate Obama

[kpete]

The Precious

Except for the fact that he beat them twice, conservative really don't have any reason to hate Obama. "Obamacare" is just the Heritage Foundation health care plan, aka Romneycare, and otherwise, uh, what?

I'm not making the argument that Obama is just like a Republican, just making the point that he really hasn't given them much to work with. They've seized on Obamacare because it's the big legislative accomplishment, but they're mostly incoherent (or lying) about why it makes them so bad. It's just the thing they've chosen to rally behind because they really don't have anything else.

I suppose there's Benghazi!
by Atrios
http://www.eschatonblog.com/2013/09/the-precious.html

[KittyWampus]

1. Comment from Atrios- House Republicans practicing 'Stand Your Ground"?

"Here's an analogy for you.

The Republicans are similar to G. Zimmerman by provoking government shutdown and then blaming the Democrats for it and any bad that results from it."

[leftstreet]

2. Seems like it's all just theater n/t

[SoCalDem]

3. They have TWO reasons

he's black
he's a democrat

[Ohio Joe]

4. ^^ This ^^

They have made exactly this clear from day one.

[Orsino]

5. One reason: short-term profits of certain key contributors are threatened.

This was the only real reason, ever. Race and party affiliation are just window dressing, useful for rallying the rubes.

[mazzarro]

6. Liberals Hood Winked Into Accepting The Heritage Foundation's Romneycare (a.k.a. Obamacare)

If some ways, I feel like we have been played by the Heritage Foundation into fighting for A.C.A. when this was the foundations brain child. Yes in many ways it is far better than the current system but, far less than Hillarycare or the ultimate single payer that liberals want - i.e. Medicare.

So, if one looks at it that way, then the Heritage Foundation and the reThugs have really won this war - we are fighting on their grounds - so to speak. Their anger maybe because liberals have no cried "uncle" yet to give them the satisfaction they crave for.

[pampango]

7. They are upset because the Massachusetts legislature (85% Democratic) would not pass

the HF concept as introduced by romney. Those dang Democrats insisted on reworking mitt's proposal to such a extent that he vetoed the resulting bill. Democrats then overrode his veto with ease.

The irony - romney vetoed Romneycare and the Democratic legislature passed it over his veto.

[mazzarro]

8. My Bad - Thanks For The Clarification

So Romneycare is actually a Democratic modified version of HF original corporate version. The modification must have been severe and serious that HF is now totally rejecting anything to do with it. So there lies the source of anger and venom spewing forth from reThugs and Teahadists.

[MisterP]

9. "depoliticized polarization" it's called in Honduras

and Argentinean, New York, and Chicagoan politics were the bloodiest in the 19th c., in periods when there was the least difference between parties (vacuous, content-free parties have the largest need to distinguish themselves from the Perfidious Other Guy)