Frankly, I’m not sure what point they’re trying to make here:
And here’s one for the guys:
Seriously, what the heck was that?
Conservative Group Releases Freakishly Weird Anti-Obamacare Ads
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That my friend…is what passes for Conservative thinking these days.
Brought to you by Tea-Baggers…and paid for by the Koch Brothers.
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@Moosebreath: That was my first thought. I wonder how long it will take for someone to get that probe into a remake of this video.
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I’ll explain it to you, Doug. Govermentally-mandated and subsidized health insurance = rape.
Or, perhaps more accurately: Obamacare will taint our precious bodily fluids.
Moosebreath: I had the exact same thought. Tone deaf by choice.
Also, too: deliberate sabotauge of the law. Not “I think this is bad policy” but rather “this is bad policy, in part, because X will happen”and then spending millions to try and make SURE X happens.
It’s f*cking despicable. And people wonder why folks hate on the Koch Brothers.
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@Doug:
Frankly, I’m not sure what point they’re trying to make here:
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Seriously, what the heck was that?
As far as I can tell they’re referencing Betsy McCaughey’s latest HCR BS scaremongering, without realizing that not everyone lives in the Right-Wing echo chamber and consequently will have no idea WTF they’re on about:
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/09/obamacare-is-not-a-secret-sex-directory/279789/
“‘Are you sexually active? If so, with one partner, multiple partners, or [sic] same-sex partners?’ Be ready to answer those questions and more the next time you go to the doctor, whether it’s the dermatologist or the cardiologist and no matter if the questions are unrelated to why you’re seeking medical help. And you can thank the Obama health law.”
So begins a screed in the New York Post, which also ran on FoxNews.com, earlier this week. This and more shocking things about Obamacare are brought to us by Betsy McCaughey—the one-time inventor of the “death panels” rumor.
I know, a person with an extreme agenda says an absurd thing, what’s new. This sort of thing matters right now, though, because still only around a quarter of Americans say they understand the Affordable Care Act well, and it remains a point of contention. People want and need clear information for productive discussion. It is important to sift through some of the more volatile nonsense.
And obviously it’s all in an attempt to sabotage the exchange risk pool:
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/19/gops_brilliant_new_plan_to_reach_tweens_moronic_web_videos/
… try to convince you not to purchase health insurance, for the express purpose of disrupting the risk pool and fomenting a death spiral within insurance markets that crescendoes into a national medical crisis prompting the emergency repeal of the Affordable Care Act.”
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given the federally funded pro-obamacare ads in Oregon
This is not as scandalous as you think.
The ACA is federal law.
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Right, it’s about doing anything that can be done to make the reform fail.
Question: was this approached attempted back when Medicare was created?Republicans would have been afraid to mess with LBJ – he would have had opposition Republicans round-up and incarcerated at a re-opened Manzanar Detention Center.
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I am still waiting for the day when these same propaganda loving nitwits start taking credit for it all.
They know their base and they know in a few years (probably after January 19th, 2017), the base will have no problems changing their tune from:
“Obamacare is evil!”
to
“We created and love the ACA! Now get your damn government hands off it!”Oh, it’s coming. I promise.
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@Rob in CT: “Question: was this approached attempted back when Medicare was created? ”
Well, there was no internet, but Ronald Reagann recorded a spoken word record explaining how Medicare would end freedom in America.
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@Jeremy R: Um, sexual activity is often related to health, y’know….I take it these idiots have never heard of a) STDs or b) antibiotics interfering with birth control pills, or c) HIV.
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@Mr. Replica: Nah. Decade at the least.
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@James Pearce: yes, it is.
its also unconstituional.. an area the governmnet has no place being.
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@ Florack
the vast majority of americans want it stopped
The vast majority of Americans want higher taxes on the rich. Where do you stand on that issue?
Feel free to run from this question again, like you have done several times before.
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I thought you all would have learned you lesson concerning the polls from the last election.
Any poll supporting a a certain position is infallible and context means nothing. (anti-democrat)
A poll supporting the opposite position is rigged, and if more than one poll supports the opposite position, it’s a conspiracy orchestrated by the Libruls and the L.S.M. (pro-democrat)Obama lost! Get over it! Jeesh…
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@Eric Florack: Given that you aren’t a majority of SCOTUS (which has already once ruled on the constitutionality of this law), your views as to what are and aren’t constitutional are totally irrelevant . Zip. Nada. Worthless.
But go ahead, go along muttering about the Great Platonic Ideal of Constitutionalism in the sky and how you magically know whether any law is or is not unconstitutional.
