HCR, GOP, Dems
If I were a betting person I would place my money on two coming trends surrounding Obama's Health Care Reform.
The first is that now with a GOP controlled Congress, there will be a steady stream of daggers thrown at HCR in order to slowly kill it off, slow it down, or make its implementation more and more distant. Recall that Obama does have veto power and the Dems still hold the Senate.
The second is that we will see a steady stream of political ads praising aspects of HCR. These will be backed by the Dems, of course, and their campaign financiers. We are talking about a media war undertaken to convince Americans that the GOP is pointlessly litigious, obstructionists, and regressive. They are, it goes without saying, but expect a long entrenched battle regardless.
Either way, the health care interests of the American people will not be in the center of this blatantly political issue.
CS Monitor: Health-care reform in GOP cross hairs
The first is that now with a GOP controlled Congress, there will be a steady stream of daggers thrown at HCR in order to slowly kill it off, slow it down, or make its implementation more and more distant. Recall that Obama does have veto power and the Dems still hold the Senate.
The second is that we will see a steady stream of political ads praising aspects of HCR. These will be backed by the Dems, of course, and their campaign financiers. We are talking about a media war undertaken to convince Americans that the GOP is pointlessly litigious, obstructionists, and regressive. They are, it goes without saying, but expect a long entrenched battle regardless.
Either way, the health care interests of the American people will not be in the center of this blatantly political issue.
CS Monitor: Health-care reform in GOP cross hairs
Republicans concede that winning a repeal vote in the Democratic-controlled Senate is unlikely – and the two-thirds needed to override a presidential veto, well out of reach.
But Republicans say they'll seek every opportunity to repeal the new law and, failing that, to defund it or delay its implementation.
Call it death by a thousand cuts. Even without statutory changes, you can make it very difficult to get health-care reform implemented."
Democrats aim to amplify features of the new law that are popular with the public. These include:
posted by Sande at
9:02 AM
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The GOP part of the Money Party is for WAR first and always against whomever, and Poverty secondly for everyone but the top 2%. It serves the Corporatist / Plutocratic elite and has nothing but contempt for the average person. The Dem. section of the Money Party serves the same elite but wants the poverty level to start at the top 10%, it also is for permanent war.
Yes, the Money Party indeed. That is a very good articulation of the political system as it now stands.
We have to investigate how to get beyond and through it. Its so repressive as it now exists.
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