Call Obamacare opponents the anti Mick Jagger. Unlike him, time is not on their side.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_3oxD5dDSw
It's always been the principle behind Starve the Beast. What we-as conservative anti government opponents-can't ever have is a successful government program. As much as possible deny that any thing government ever does is successful-we can't allow a single good example, Americans can't be allowed a single good experience of government.
On the other hand once a government program starts paying out benefits it's over. This is certainly proven by Medicare. Today even it's staunchest opponents will never in a million years admit they are even opposed to it. They don't want to abolish it or damage it or even cut it really, they just want to improve it, they want to save it. See Paul Ryan. Meanwhile, his patron saint, Ayn Rand, actually lived off Medicare in her later years.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-ford/ayn-rand-and-the-vip-dipe_b_792184.html
Maybe this in part explains the overdrive Obama opponents have been in-though they've always been absolutely obsessed.
"Here’s something to keep an eye on as we enter the second half of the August recess: Will there be any grassroots outcry to speak of on behalf of the right’s push for a government shutdown to defund Obamacare, or will the whole thing be a big fizzle?"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/08/19/the-morning-plum-for-obamacare-opponents-time-is-running-out/
Evidently, Heritage is the real conservative organization-while most of the conservative intellgentisa have opted for immigration reform, they came up with that crazy study that claimed it would cost the economy millions of jobs and explode the deficit-only trouble is it was complete hooey. Or I guess I should speak more technically and say it was 'severely flawed."
http://reason.com/blog/2013/05/13/heritage-foundation-drops-out-of-immigra
http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/05/10/1997231/richwine-resigns-heritage/?mobile=nc
So now they're ready to march in the streets against Obamacare. However, there's really not too much excitement about this among Republican Senators. On balance you'd have to say the technical name for this is 'very disappointing.'
"At this point only 13 Senators have signed on to the “defund Obamacare” push, and GOP leaders (tentatively, to be sure, and with varying degrees of openness) are pushing back on the defund movement. The forces in favor of defunding are explicitly calling on the grassroots to show the GOP establishment that there is real public support for maximum tactics to halt Obamacare. And as Obamacare foes themselves know, time is running out: there is less than two months to go until the Obamacare exchanges go on line.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_3oxD5dDSw
It's always been the principle behind Starve the Beast. What we-as conservative anti government opponents-can't ever have is a successful government program. As much as possible deny that any thing government ever does is successful-we can't allow a single good example, Americans can't be allowed a single good experience of government.
On the other hand once a government program starts paying out benefits it's over. This is certainly proven by Medicare. Today even it's staunchest opponents will never in a million years admit they are even opposed to it. They don't want to abolish it or damage it or even cut it really, they just want to improve it, they want to save it. See Paul Ryan. Meanwhile, his patron saint, Ayn Rand, actually lived off Medicare in her later years.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-ford/ayn-rand-and-the-vip-dipe_b_792184.html
Maybe this in part explains the overdrive Obama opponents have been in-though they've always been absolutely obsessed.
"Here’s something to keep an eye on as we enter the second half of the August recess: Will there be any grassroots outcry to speak of on behalf of the right’s push for a government shutdown to defund Obamacare, or will the whole thing be a big fizzle?"
"Today Heritage Action for America is launching a nine-city tour designed to drum up support for the push for defunding. The White House-allied Americans United for Change is vowing to match Heritage’s events with its own, in an effort to demonstrate at least as much or more energy on the pro-Obamacare side. We’re already seeing little evidence to suggest that the great and fearsome conservative backlash to immigration reform is materializing. Will the same happen on the great defund-Obamacare crusade?"
"Those who want a shutdown confrontation are themselves framing the battle in these terms, arguing that the recess is the time for the grassroots to speak up and demand that the squishy GOP establishment stiffen its spine and do what it takes to halt Obamacare before it’s too late. Indeed, National Journal reports that the movement to defund Obamacare is falling “on hard times,” and even defund-Obamacare ringleader Ted Cruz seems uneasy:
With momentum stalled in Washington, proponents of “defund or shutdown” know they must rally the base during the current August recess and are ramping up pressure. “We need to activate another grassroots army,” Cruz said in a taped message he released earlier this month. Heritage Action, the activist arm of the Heritage Foundation, has organized a nine-city “Defund Obamacare” town-hall tour, beginning Monday in Fayetteville, Ark.“This has always been a strategy relying on people going home in August and listening to constituents,” said Michael Needham, CEO of Heritage Action.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/08/19/the-morning-plum-for-obamacare-opponents-time-is-running-out/
Evidently, Heritage is the real conservative organization-while most of the conservative intellgentisa have opted for immigration reform, they came up with that crazy study that claimed it would cost the economy millions of jobs and explode the deficit-only trouble is it was complete hooey. Or I guess I should speak more technically and say it was 'severely flawed."
http://reason.com/blog/2013/05/13/heritage-foundation-drops-out-of-immigra
http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/05/10/1997231/richwine-resigns-heritage/?mobile=nc
So now they're ready to march in the streets against Obamacare. However, there's really not too much excitement about this among Republican Senators. On balance you'd have to say the technical name for this is 'very disappointing.'
"At this point only 13 Senators have signed on to the “defund Obamacare” push, and GOP leaders (tentatively, to be sure, and with varying degrees of openness) are pushing back on the defund movement. The forces in favor of defunding are explicitly calling on the grassroots to show the GOP establishment that there is real public support for maximum tactics to halt Obamacare. And as Obamacare foes themselves know, time is running out: there is less than two months to go until the Obamacare exchanges go on line.
So keep an eye on how this defund Obamacare push plays. If it’s mostly a fizzle, it willconfirm again that dissatisfaction with the law does not necessarily translate into support for doing away with it entirely, let alone replacing it with nothing."
Scott Walker also comes out against a Kamikaze hit on the government if there's not an immediate repeal of Obamacare:
"Add Scott Walker to the list of Republicans who knows a shutdown is political suicide:
“I have real problems obviously with Obamcare,” he said. “But I think most Americans, even if they don’t like the size or growth of government, they still want something to work, something very fundamentally to work, and that’s a difference again between Washington and the state level.”
"That’s why, as I keep telling you, a “keep and fix” message very well may trump a “repeal and do nothing” one.
Yes, Greg, and I keep on agreeing with you. However, this presumes that the GOP is a rational party or that the rational parts trump the irrational. If the GOP wouldn't keep saying 'My way or the highway' it would get its way sometimes. As it is it never does just about-other than the sequester that Scott Sumner is so triumphant about.
Yeah, Scott, let's pop champagne.
Meanwhile, more empirical proof that there are no atheists in foxholes, a GOP operative has now become an Obamacare supporter after being diagnosed with cancer.
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