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April 08, 2014 12:32 PM UTC
28 Comments
"Never apologize, never explain. It's a sign of weakness."
-John Wayne
In truth, this ad is worded quite accurately. It doesn't say, for example, that "millions have lost their health care." As Jo Donlin at the CDPHE said in response to Mark Udall's bullying, 335,000 people were affected by health insurance cancellation notices. Many of them were able to find new insurance through other channels or even the same insurer, but the fact remains their policies, the policies they chose and both Obama and Udall said they could keep, were cancelled.
That's what our own nonpartisan state employees said, not a career politician with much to lose. I trust Marguerite Salazar and her staff over Udall's political hacks any day.
And I'd trust a buffalo fart over you, Moddy. It has more substance and less methane
Moddy just can't let go of the whole cancellations thing. Maybe he should look up what the definition of insanity is according to a certain theoretical physicist.
Nah, that would require a bit of introspection. Just run with the cancellations.
Is the ad's wording inaccurate? How?
You want to play word gems? People will call bullshit on you in no time.
Try telling a true story. It's less contentious than word games.
All this time on this blog and he still hasn't figured that out!
You gotta be kidding me.
Moderatus – you seem to have hit a nerve because all you're getting in response are random attacks rather than speaking to the issue raised.
With that said, while the ad is reasonably honest, I don't think it will have much impact. People will judge the ACA mostly by it's direct impact on themselves and close friends & family.
Nah… no more tham the usual respones to Modster. I don't think anyone cares enough about Modster's opinions for them to hit any nerves.
Or, you're in denial. It has to be one of those.
I do apologize for the typos.
Lots of PPP polls out today from various battleground races. One of them, from Michigan, shows Koch's ads being, if anything, a net negative for the Republican challenger. Koch-affiliated groups have poured massive amounts of money into this open competitive Senate race, and the result appears to be a 17 point drop in Independent voter preference for Republican Terri Lynn Land since they last polled the race in December.
Land and Peters haven't done anything on their own that would account for the huge swing; the obvious action in the race has been the Koch ads.
Here's to hoping that Americans are tired of the same old lies. Obamacare is fully in effect and most people haven't even noticed that it's there aside from the news about it; those who have been affected by it are largely positively impacted. Going forward, the only drag on ACA approval will be (or, more accurately, will remain) the vocal opposition and lying coming from Republicans and other conservatives.
I disagree as to the drag on ACA approval. I think there will be an additional drag based on the fact that the healthcare (and health insurance) system in our country sucks. ACA will be blamed by some for many of the broader problems becuase even though it is not the cause of those problems, it just does not fix them. People will continue to be frustrated with costs, access, and the health insurance bureaucracy. Some will blame those frustrations on ACA.
Medicare and Medicaid will have to be better funded, and we need more providers. Primary care doctors need to be better paid, and medical care models more like the Mayo Clinics and the western slope medical community around Grand Junction need to be created. To the gop and their supporters these changes are insurmountable and unsupportable. But we really don't have any other choice. And the the ACA has put us in that position. I look at it as long term therapy for a very ill patient who has an excellent prognosis, and who may respond faster than we think.
I beg to differ about Grand Junction. Our insurance prices are much higher than they are on the Front Range, not as high as the ski towns but well above the metro areas. For the low-paid people, of which Mesa County has an abundance, good ACA subsidies and Medicaid are life-savers. For those on Medicare, the model works very well. For people caught in the middle, not great at all.
Unfortunately some of that is probably true. Especially if Dems run from ACA instead of aggressively putting out all the positives. We'll see.
One of these days scared Dems are going to figure out that they don't have to let the GOTP spin machine have a field day while they hide and beg to be liked for anything other than whatever the GOTP has been working overtime to make unpopular. The truth is always on the Dems side. Use it. Call out the SOBs instead of begging to be liked because you're really more like them than people think. Rs never ask to be liked for being more like Dems. Shouldn't Dems have learned something from that by now?
Dems are running for the ACA because the polls are telling you to. Obamacare is a failure because the public doesn't support it. It's that simple.
We'll see. November is eons away in poitical election year time.
Like Hell, Americans haven't noticed Obamacare! Obamacare goes into effect and Russia seized Crimea, which it actually seized first in 1783 but we didn't notice because CNN didn't exist yet. The Malaysian airliner went down and nobody found it because CNN broadcast so much misinformation everybody went crazy looking everywhere.
A coincidence? I think not.
On the otherhand, my beloved Uconn huskies won the NCAA bubble-bouncing tournament, to the joy of my son and his partner, who now teach at connecticutt universies. (though not uconn, Trinity College and Fairfield University.) And if the uconn women win their own championship tonight, we'll ignore the fact that if the male team is called the huskies then a female husky is a , well, anyway, all's right with the world.
I vote for Huskesses. As the team name.
I thought righties liked private for profit companies to be making billions.
I hope that spin goes better than your equal pay spin.
Democrat Equal Pay Spin Backfires
So you don't like private companies making billions?
You have very poor grammar. Your punctuation isn't much better. The comments you put forth add little of substance to the discussion. I hope you can do better. That still remains to be seen.
Those comments are for the M person.
Call him by his full name, Miss Jane, Moderatus Minimus Flatulous Maximus
Well…the using the M person was a tad impersonal and objectivizing. Formal names are usually better.