TOON: GOP Getting It Wrong Again And Again And Again

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Last edited Wed Apr 23, 2014, 06:46 PM - Edit history (1)

[liberal N proud]

1. Who keeps voting for these clowns

Just as the pic of the day asks.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017188312

[Gothmog]

2. Great cartoon

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3. what did they get right

ownership of the media perhaps. control of the vocabulary. lowest common denominators. etc.
i fucking hate republicans.

[Enthusiast]

4. Mostly on the wrong side of history.

[malaise]

5. Love it

Rec

[WillyT]

6. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

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7. The GOP must admit it was wrong on Obamacare

By E.J. Dionne Jr.

Is there any accountability in American politics for being completely wrong? Is there any cost to those who say things that turn out not to be true and then, when their fabrications or false predictions are exposed, calmly move on to concocting new claims as if they had never made the old ones?

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When the health-care Web site went haywire last fall, conservatives were absolutely certain this technological failure meant that the entire reform effort was doomed. ...

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Their representatives in Washington, moderate conservatives as well as the tea party’s loyalists, followed the base’s lead. In mid-November, for example, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) told Fox News flatly that the law is “destined to fail,” “fundamentally flawed” and “not ready for prime time.” House Speaker John Boehner predicted dire outcomes before the Web site fiasco. He repeatedly insisted, as he did in July, that “even the Obama administration knows the ‘train wreck’ will only get worse.”

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So let’s say it out loud: The ACA is doing exactly what its supporters said it would do. It is getting health insurance to millions who didn’t have it before. (The Los Angeles Times pegged the number at 9.5 million at the beginning of the week.) And it’s working especially well in places such as Kentucky, where state officials threw themselves fully and competently behind the cause of signing up the uninsured. Those who want to repeal the law will have to admit that they are willing to deprive these people, or some large percentage of them, of insurance.


From now on, will there be more healthy skepticism about conservative claims against the ACA? Given how many times the law’s enemies have said the sky was falling when it wasn’t, will there be tougher interrogation of their next round of apocalyptic predictions? Will their so-called alternatives be analyzed closely to see how many now-insured people would actually lose coverage under the “replacement” plans?

read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ej-dionne-the-gop-must-admit-it-was-wrong-on-obamacare/2014/04/02/f5635366-ba98-11e3-9a05-c739f29ccb08_story.html

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8. No Matter How Successful the ACA Becomes, Republicans Have No Choice But to Keep Lying About It

By Allen Clifton

It’s no secret that Republicans have based a large part of their party’s platform on being against the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. Before it was even law, millions of dollars were being spent by various conservative groups to slander and sabotage the bill.

After all these years of bashing the health care law, the millions of dollars spent trying to slander it and the politicians who owe a large part of their success to opposing the law, Republicans have no choice but to continue to try to sabotage, lie and oppose Obamacare.

They don’t have any choice.

Even after over 7 million people signed up for Obamacare through the marketplace, the only option Republicans had following that news was to essentially say the numbers were a lie. And that’s exactly what most of them did.
Here’s a “bold” prediction: Unless the news about Obamacare is bad, Republicans will always say it’s a lie.

It won’t matter what level of success the law reaches, Republicans will never be able to support the law. They simply can’t. They’ve spent so much time and money slandering the law, lying about the law, that if they were to ever admit that it was working even in the slightest – they would expose themselves as complete frauds. After years and years of lying about law, if it reaches certain levels of success and none of their horror stories come true, it proves without a doubt that they were completely full of crap. They can’t simply say, “Well, we were wrong and Obama was right.”

read more: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/matter-successful-aca-becomes-republicans-can-never-honest/