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TexasTowelie

(112,125 posts)
Wed Jan 1, 2014, 05:54 AM Jan 2014

Rick Perry: You can’t dress up the failures of Obamacare

[font color=navy]Perry wrote this essay exclusively for The Dallas Morning News.[/font]

The promise and potential I normally greet each New Year with is, this year, being tested by a great sense of peril as Americans face the full brunt of the disastrous impacts of Obamacare in 2014. The delays, deceit and debacles that marked Obamacare’s rollout in 2013 show no signs of slowing in the new year.

People all across the country have witnessed what a disaster this program has been from its earliest stages, ranging from the $600 million website debacle to the sad fact that President Barack Obama flat-out deceived the American people when he promised that those who like their coverage could keep it. To stem the bleeding, the administration is resorting to arbitrary delays for some Obamacare mandates, which only inject more confusion into the marketplace and with consumers.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and the president are left with selling a faltering program to an American public that has rightfully become more and more concerned with what it’s learning about this law.

Much of what sold Obamacare in the first place was the administration’s assertions that we could trust them, and that even though nobody could explain precisely how or why, Obamacare would make everything better. It hasn’t. Sadly, it takes more than empty assertions to fix what ails Obamacare.

More at http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20131231-rick-perry-you-cant-dress-up-the-failures-of-obamacare.ece .

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Rick Perry: You can’t dress up the failures of Obamacare (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2014 OP
BUWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! VanillaRhapsody Jan 2014 #1
Rick Perry.. Mr One Two.. Cha Jan 2014 #3
fuck you Perry Skittles Jan 2014 #2
Perry is screwing million of people by not expanding Medicaid Gothmog Jan 2014 #4
1) it's amazing that cement head perry knows how to write... Javaman Jan 2014 #5
I hope someone rebuts or responds to his essay in the DMN DuckBurp Jan 2014 #6
he meant, "You can't dress up my failures." RussBLib Jan 2014 #7

Gothmog

(145,130 posts)
4. Perry is screwing million of people by not expanding Medicaid
Wed Jan 1, 2014, 10:12 AM
Jan 2014

We need to motivate the people being screwed by Perry. Texas Democrats are pushing a program called "Texas Left Me Out". http://www.democraticunderground.com/107813898

Javaman

(62,517 posts)
5. 1) it's amazing that cement head perry knows how to write...
Thu Jan 2, 2014, 12:44 PM
Jan 2014

2) he more than likely dictated the "main points" and a flunky filled in the rest.

3) cement head perry is a greedy opportunist fuck.

DuckBurp

(302 posts)
6. I hope someone rebuts or responds to his essay in the DMN
Thu Jan 2, 2014, 12:55 PM
Jan 2014

Not me, though. Someone who has a really good grasp of the facts.

RussBLib

(9,006 posts)
7. he meant, "You can't dress up my failures."
Fri Jan 3, 2014, 04:22 PM
Jan 2014

Republicans are masters of projection. Freud actually had them in mind. Freud was way ahead of his time.

Flippant? Sure. Why not?

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