GOP Made Big Mistake
Cliff
http://www.aolnews.com/healthcare/article/ex-bush-aide-david-frum-gop-made-big-mistake-on-health-care/19409479
"Ex-Bush Aide: GOP Made Big Mistake on Health Care"
[
As President Barack Obama's health care overhaul inched toward a historic final
vote this month, Republicans exuded a particular kind of public confidence: They
might not have the votes to stop the bill, GOP leaders argued, but they were on
the side of the people. Democrats, they said, were making a grave mistake by
ramming through a "government takeover" that ignored public opposition.
"This is the people's House -- and the moment a majority forgets this, it starts
writing itself a ticket to minority status," House Republican leader Rep. John
Boehner declared on the House floor Sunday night, warning Democrats that they
would lose control of Congress over their vote.
But in the hours after Democrats approved the sweeping legislation, a GOP
counter-narrative emerged, fed by David Frum, a former speechwriter for
President George W. Bush ( http://www.frumforum.com/waterloo ).
It was the Republican Party that made the big mistake, Frum argued, by losing
its grand bet that unified opposition to Obamacare could prevent the measure
from becoming law. "Conservatives and Republicans today suffered their most
crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s. It's hard to exaggerate the
magnitude of the disaster,"
....
The GOP's decision to offer blanket opposition to health care reform, he wrote,
backfired completely. "We went for all the marbles," Frum wrote. "We ended with
none."
Senator Jim DeMint, R-S.C., famously predicted last year that a defeat of health
care, Obama's chief domestic priority, would be the president's "Waterloo."
Instead, Frum wrote, it could be the GOP's.
....
The current Republican leaders were not the only ones coming under criticism
from conservatives in Monday's aftermath. A conservative writer for the American
Spectator, Philip Klein
( http://spectator.org/blog/2010/03/21/mad-about-obamacare-blame-bush ), blamed
George W Bush. The Bush administration, he wrote, "squandered an opportunity to
push free market health care solutions."
"Today will be largely remembered as the biggest legislative victory for
liberals since Medicare in 1965," Klein wrote. "But it should also be remembered
as the day that Bush cemented his legacy as one of the most destructive
presidents for advocates of limited government."
....
]
Too_Many_Tools
wrote:
> http://www.aolnews.com/healthcare/article/ex-bush-aide-david-frum-gop...
> George W Bush. The Bush administration, he wrote, "squandered an opportunity to
> push free market health care solutions."
>
> "Today will be largely remembered as the biggest legislative victory for
> liberals since Medicare in 1965," Klein wrote. "But it should also be remembered
> as the day that Bush cemented his legacy as one of the most destructive
> presidents for advocates of limited government."
> ....
> ]
The GOP has likely cost themselves the November elections.
Serves the idiots right.
TMT
Patriot Games
<too_man...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>The GOP has likely cost themselves the November elections.
>Serves the idiots right.
Oops! Your opinions are now worthless:
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:11:22 -0700 (PDT), Too_Many_Tools
<too_man...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>On Mar 28, 7:51�pm, Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names
><PopUlist...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> http://www.iowapolitics.com/index.iml?Article=189993
>> DES MOINES � Governor Chet Culver today signed legislation that will
>> help protect Iowa families by taking guns out of the hands of abusers.
>> Senate File 2357 prohibits a person who has been convicted of a
>> domestic abuse crime, or is subject to a permanent civil protective
>> order, from possessing firearms or other offensive weapons.
>Hmmm...great idea...the Feds should make it a national law.
It already is DUMBASS!
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Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/922(g)(9).html
"The act bans shipment, transport, ownership and use of guns or
ammunition by individuals convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence,
or who are under a restraining (protection) order for domestic abuse.
The act also makes it unlawful to knowingly sell or give a firearm or
ammunition to such person."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_Violence_Offender_Gun_Ban
It was passed in 1996, DUMBASS!
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It was passed by Republicans, DUMBASS!
The Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban ("Gun Ban for Individuals
Convicted of a Misdemeanor Crime of Domestic Violence", Pub.L.
104-208, 18 U.S.C. � 922(g)(9) was an amendment to the Omnibus
Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997 enacted by the 104th United
States Congress in 1996.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_Violence_Offender_Gun_Ban
104th United States Congress
Senate Majority: Republican Party
House Majority: Republican Party
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/104th_United_States_Congress
Please change your name from "Too_Many_Tools" to "Not_Enough_Brains."
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