Two big reasons to be psyched! Delong linked to a couple of posts I wrote last year about Obamacare bashing-it was at the time when the GOP was gloating about the website.
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2014/11/diary-of-a-republican-hater-is-john-cochrane-confident-enough-of-obamacares-failure.html
I pointed out that they were getting ahead of the website problems-this year things are much, much better, of course.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2014/11/krugman-and-cnbc-agree-obamacare-works.html
Naturally the Obamacare bashers have moved on. Now they are belaboring the point about Jonathan Gruber's 'shocking remarks' as if this shows the law is inherently flawed.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120311/jonathan-gruber-and-obamacare-what-his-quotes-really-tell-us
http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2014/11/18/jonathan-cohn-rewrites-history-for-jonathan-gruber/
Notice how the Tea Party attacks of the Right on ACA come to sound indistinguishable from the attacks of the Left like at Firedoglake: the Teabaggers and the Firebaggers have more than a little family resemblance.
It's all sort of reminiscent of the 1936 campaign when all the haters of Social Security of the Left and Right-both Father Coughlin and Huey Long joined forces under the Frances Townsend aegis to defeat it. Then as now the Left and the Right unite against the Center.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Townsend
Ralph Nader is now best friends with Rand Paul.
http://www.amazon.com/Unstoppable-Emerging-Left-Right-Dismantle-Corporate-ebook/dp/B00HTQ31TA/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416412733&sr=1-1&keywords=ralph+nader
I think you'll find that Obama hating on firebaggers today are not less than on teabagger blogs. They all just haaaaaaatteee President Obama.
Meanwhile I'm very happy to hear the President is going to 'tear up the Constitution' on Friday-obviously I'm being ironic. I know, the David Brookses of the world will throw up their hands at this lost hope of bipartisanship next year. I'm sure Boehner was going to pass immigration in January if only Obama hadn't tied his hands.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102183389
Ok, GOP, there's mud in your eye. What are you going to do now? Shut down the government, refuse to raise the debt ceiling, or maybe just go right to impeachment? Any one of these things will just amplify that you're the part that hates Latinos and can't stand the idea of there being more of them in this country and consider their existence an existential threat to your very party.
http://buchanan.org/blog/is-the-gop-headed-for-the-boneyard-5347
Is this the best time for him to do this? There is no 'best time'-in June the best time was after the election but now it's after the GOP funds the government, then, there will probably be some new best time. Let's do it now and remind the GOP that there are checks and balances. Yes they run Congress now but they don't run everything and the executive branch has its prerogatives just like the legislative branch does.
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2014/11/diary-of-a-republican-hater-is-john-cochrane-confident-enough-of-obamacares-failure.html
I pointed out that they were getting ahead of the website problems-this year things are much, much better, of course.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2014/11/krugman-and-cnbc-agree-obamacare-works.html
Naturally the Obamacare bashers have moved on. Now they are belaboring the point about Jonathan Gruber's 'shocking remarks' as if this shows the law is inherently flawed.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120311/jonathan-gruber-and-obamacare-what-his-quotes-really-tell-us
http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2014/11/18/jonathan-cohn-rewrites-history-for-jonathan-gruber/
Notice how the Tea Party attacks of the Right on ACA come to sound indistinguishable from the attacks of the Left like at Firedoglake: the Teabaggers and the Firebaggers have more than a little family resemblance.
It's all sort of reminiscent of the 1936 campaign when all the haters of Social Security of the Left and Right-both Father Coughlin and Huey Long joined forces under the Frances Townsend aegis to defeat it. Then as now the Left and the Right unite against the Center.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Townsend
Ralph Nader is now best friends with Rand Paul.
http://www.amazon.com/Unstoppable-Emerging-Left-Right-Dismantle-Corporate-ebook/dp/B00HTQ31TA/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416412733&sr=1-1&keywords=ralph+nader
I think you'll find that Obama hating on firebaggers today are not less than on teabagger blogs. They all just haaaaaaatteee President Obama.
Meanwhile I'm very happy to hear the President is going to 'tear up the Constitution' on Friday-obviously I'm being ironic. I know, the David Brookses of the world will throw up their hands at this lost hope of bipartisanship next year. I'm sure Boehner was going to pass immigration in January if only Obama hadn't tied his hands.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102183389
Ok, GOP, there's mud in your eye. What are you going to do now? Shut down the government, refuse to raise the debt ceiling, or maybe just go right to impeachment? Any one of these things will just amplify that you're the part that hates Latinos and can't stand the idea of there being more of them in this country and consider their existence an existential threat to your very party.
http://buchanan.org/blog/is-the-gop-headed-for-the-boneyard-5347
Is this the best time for him to do this? There is no 'best time'-in June the best time was after the election but now it's after the GOP funds the government, then, there will probably be some new best time. Let's do it now and remind the GOP that there are checks and balances. Yes they run Congress now but they don't run everything and the executive branch has its prerogatives just like the legislative branch does.
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