The Obama signed health bill made sure...

[SHRED]

...that corporate profit margins would be sustained in our health care system. That capitalism would write the rules.

No public option.
No single-payer.
Not even a 55+ Medicare option.

And yet the Tea Bag freaks/Repubs insist it is a "marxist", "socialist", and "communist" bill.

What are these freaks drinking for breakfast?

:crazy:

[Champion Jack]

I don't know what they're drinking

but, I wish it was Drano.

[Teaser]

1. they don't like the massive subsidies for the poor

to buy insurance.

[jaxx]

2. Why are you using the republican 'Obamacare' on DU?

[SHRED]

4. I didn't realize that it....

...was used solely by the Repubs.

In fact I know I have seen it in leftwing blogs.

[jaxx]

10. It's a putdown.

If you've seen it in leftwing blogs, they're pushing the anti-health care agenda.

[Lost4words]

5. no worse than you using that circle D bullshit!

[jaxx]

17. It comes from the DNC

http://www.democrats.org/ You know, Democrats.

[derby378]

36. You know, the ones who chased Dean out into the wilderness

That's why I use a donkey, and you can keep the circle. I'm not forgetting what it means to be a Democrat.

[Autumn]

28. How long do you think it will be before we see

the circle D on republican bumper stickers with a red slash through it? I don't accept it.I'll stick with the :dem:

[derby378]

43. You and me both

:hi:

[mmonk]

40. Though it would make a nifty convenience store logo.

"Good bye dear, I'm heading over to the Circle D."

[ClassWarrior]

7. You're right. Romneycare is more accurate.

NGU.

[jaxx]

15. The Affordable Health Care Act is accurate.

http://www.squarestate.net/diary/931/judge-declares-affordable-health-care-act-constitutional

[Statistical]

23. Technically but nothing in the bill makes health CARE affordable.

[jaxx]

29. Wellllllll it will down the line, it has to all get in play.

:hi:

[Statistical]

30. The sad thing is you actually believe that. n/t

[Autumn]

21. I call it Obamacare. I did not know that was

republican.

[jaxx]

22. It is.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/10/10/1865463/obamacare-wrong-choice-for-headline.html

[Autumn]

26. I still like it. It's better than the republican

plan of NoMammacare.

[jaxx]

27. It's all yours.

[dennis4868]

3. They don't really believe...

that the new health care law is socialist or Marxist....it just sounds good in order to continue the "narrative" about Obama and weaken him....the tea party folks make no sense whatsoever.....

[leeroysphitz]

25. they aren't paid to make sense. n/t

[Sal Minella]

35. Good bumpersticker.

Teabaggers:

We're not paid to make sense;
We're paid to make noise.

[AlinPA]

6. "Obamacare" sounds like a republican commercial.

[SHRED]

8. It's used by...

...those on the Left also who are upset with it.

---

[JTFrog]

12. No it was first used as a racist right wing meme. n/t

[AlinPA]

13. Assuming you are on the left, then it's the first I've heard it from the left.

[SHRED]

16. I have been here since '03

So that means I am not to the Left enough!

LOL

[AlinPA]

41. I did not say that you are "not to the Left enough". Read the post. I copied it here:

Assuming you are on the left, then it's the first I've heard it from the left.

[alcibiades_mystery]

18. It's used by ignorant assholes of all stripes, to be sure

:eyes:

[Township75]

9. So what about "these freaks" on DU that love Obamacare

when it "made sure that corporate profit margins would be sustained in our health care system. That capitalism would write the rules.

No public option.
No single-payer.
Not even a 55+ Medicare option. "

Shit like this is why most people don't vote. Neither side has an ounce of credibility anymore.

[SHRED]

11. we need to purge the Democratic Party...

...of the sheep in wolve's clothing.
Vote out the DLC Blue Dogs.

In fact we need a systemic change in our election system.
Publicly financed elections.
Yeah...repealing corporate "personhood", like that is gonna happen.
Never mind.

[jaxx]

19. 'freaks'?

Do you mean Democrats on DU?

[Township75]

32. that is what it says.

That would be one set of people.

THe point of my post was that the OP bashed Obamacare something protecting corporate profits and not doing shit for the public, and implied the tea party should love it (or at least not whine about it). yet isn't htat bill what dems and Obama are supposed to tout as being awesome?

Should we be proud of something we did, yet is something the tea party should be content with?

Im convinced most people don't vote because they see this type of arguing in politics and think the people involved are just shitheads looking to yell about something.

[SHRED]

14. There...is that better?

[jaxx]

20. It's an improvement.

[Myrina]

24. They lack an understanding of 'socialism' and 'marxism' ...

... they just like to throw foreign-sounding buzzwords around, like their heroes Beck and Limpy do, to make themselves feel intelligent.

[WinkyDink]

31. They know what sells. Next question?

[DirkGently]

33. The problem with triangulation, in a nutshell.

The problem for Democrats trying to defend the business-comprompised healthcare reform is that it is

1) Watered down so much in favor of business interests that most of the possible benefit is destroyed.

2) Still guaranteed to be denounced as wildly "leftist" "Marxist," etc. by Republicans / conservatives.

[leftstreet]

37. +1

[lonestarnot]

34. Guess they haven't checked their insurance premiums lately, nor have they used their "benefit."

Benefit? :puke:

[Vinca]

38. They also insist Obama is a far left POTUS.

They're obviously stupid.

[Egalitariat]

39. The health bill was the first domino in a series of events that will kill the insurance industry

altogether within a decade, leaving us no choice but to go to a universal single payer system.

It is, by far, the most strategically brilliant move that Obama has made as President.

[librechik]

42. Yep--that's what all the scrambling is about--they know their era is over,

and they are doing everything they can to wring every last drop out of the sponge while they can.

[pgodbold]

44. Elephant urine. nt