You know what is the #1 public enemy right now, according to Republicans? It has replaced the "communist threat" of the Cold War era. It occupies more anguished commentary than the Middle East wars and uprisings; more ink spilled than over immigration reform, gun control, or the national debt.
It is: Obamacare.
Mitch McConnell called it the "single worst piece of legislation passed in this country in the last 50 years." A House Republican from Louisiana went further, calling it the "worst ever." The ultra-conservative Repulican nominee for governor of Virginia had to go back to the Fugitive Slave Act to match it's effrontary of liberty.
What's so bad about providing health insurance for millions more Americans, instituting ways to hold down medical costs, and guaranteeing that no one need lose their life savings and spent their elder years bankrupt?
Well, maybe you say that it's because it wasn't their idea. And they're opposed to anything Obama came up with. But in fact, the Affordable Health Care Act is essentially the program proposed by Republicans years ago; and it was based in large part on Governmor Romney's health care act in Massachusetts, which incidentally most people like.
It's good for the goose to enact it, but when it comes from the gander, it's the worse bill ever passed by Congress.
Go figure.
Ralph
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