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PATRICK

(12,347 posts)
4. The trouble is the entire mainstream
Tue Nov 26, 2013, 04:14 PM
Nov 2013

IS the GOP echo chamber and will not let up. The viewers will do the walking but the Medicare public opinion effect will have to really bury the garbage. The mistake is that the rhetoric and the Obama tag keeps them from gaming the system as they have attempted to chip away at other programs in the past. They can't get enough from hurting the actual system now and they won't touch it which in practice helps the system. They are postponing defeat and abandoning the long term with high stakes pouting.

This is for all, all issues, even those that that ordinarily they support- as most ironically is this Republican modeled ACA in the first place.

Fewer votes for the GOP every day. More hardcore abandonment. Fewer viewers of the fraudulent media. More hardcore searchers for the truth online. They have to be willing to take those losses, abandoning and fighting the American people totally, because that is what the big money wanted with equal desperation and risk.

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I believe he is correct Skittles Nov 2013 #1
By early spring, Republicans will have to go back to screaming ... napkinz Nov 2013 #2
fantastic toon!!!!! spanone Nov 2013 #18
ACA Signup Success Stories! napkinz Nov 2013 #3
The trouble is the entire mainstream PATRICK Nov 2013 #4
Thanks for pointing out that this is a repuglican health care plan mdbl Nov 2013 #8
Just pointing out a spelling error Bortman33 Nov 2013 #9
Some folks are going to have VERY happy holidays. nt valerief Nov 2013 #5
It's like the president said, Mr.Bill Nov 2013 #6
saving this one! nt BlancheSplanchnik Nov 2013 #7
"start spreading the news ..." napkinz Nov 2013 #10
ACA: "failure is not an option" "will be our finest hour" napkinz Nov 2013 #11
It'd be nice if Krugman had checked the website before calling the rollout an "epic disaster" Chathamization Nov 2013 #12
I checked the website two weeks in. Hissyspit Nov 2013 #13
Krugman was right, it was a disaster, I know, I was there, you may be the only one denying that. A Simple Game Nov 2013 #20
US corporatemediawhore$ scraping bottom of barrel to Cha Nov 2013 #14
So now they're starting a whole new wave of "death panel" rumors and scares. Jackpine Radical Nov 2013 #15
The usual tactic--Make shit up &..... AlbertCat Nov 2013 #26
"the whole horrors-of-Obamacare meme will be gone in weeks, not months." I hope not. Grins Nov 2013 #16
So why aren't they? AlbertCat Nov 2013 #27
don't worry mr krugman, the right wingers will find another faux crisis to hang on President Obama spanone Nov 2013 #17
latest news from HHS napkinz Nov 2013 #19
I Hope That Is True But I Don't Share The Optimism DallasNE Nov 2013 #21
What scandal? Jack Rabbit Nov 2013 #22
When Krugman talks, people listen ... JEFF9K Nov 2013 #23
Thank you, Hissyspit. I am thankful for Paul Krugman. Hekate Nov 2013 #24
The wingnuts are good at conjuring up imaginary foes. Turbineguy Nov 2013 #25
recommended nt arely staircase Nov 2013 #28
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