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American Spectator Flashback – McConnell Has No Intention of Repealing Obamacare
Ocotober 20th, 2010 -
Corker: McConnell to Sabotage ObamaCare Repeal
By Jeffrey Lord on 10.20.10 @ 10:57AM
Here we go.
With a mere 13 days to go in this election — an election in which all things left are on the verge of being thoroughly repudiated if every poll out there is to believed — a shocking story appears.
A story in LaborUnionReport.com has Tennessee GOP Senator Bob Corker telling “high dollar donors” at a GOP event something prospective Republican voters will be surprised to hear:
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and his GOP colleagues have no intention whatsoever to repeal ObamaCare. None. Zip.
According to what the story says are “multiple sources,” here’s the skinny:
The junior senator from Tennessee told the gathering of donors not to worry about the incoming class of “crazier Republicans” because the majority of Senate Republicans, especially minority leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), had no intention of repealing the president’s health care bill. They instead planned to fix only the “bad parts” of the law, Corker reportedly told the group.
Get that? The Senate Republican Establishment is already actively planning to sabotage any effort by new colleagues…colleagues they consider to be “crazier Republicans” …to repeal the law that has infuriated a majority of Americans.
If this is true, the very first move of these “crazier Republicans” should be to remove McConnell from his leadership post, and make sure Corker is never put anywhere near any of the lesser leadership spots.
What could McConnell and Corker possibly be thinking? Perhaps it would be easier to preserve the Democrats’ Senate majority if the two just switched parties outright. Having apparently decided to deliberately sabotage Item One on the conservative agenda from inside, why not just go all the way? When Harry Reid is defeated perhaps McConnell could take a run at being the Democrats’ Senate Leader?
!~~~~~~~~snip~~~~~~~~~~~! HT/ Linda W.
Contrst this nearly 2 year old story to what McConnell is SAYING TODAY






Tracy
July 1st, 2012
RINO’s Gotta Go / The Only Good RINO Is A Gone RINO.
NObama2012!
Unneutral
July 1st, 2012
Oh how different it would be if those that passed the laws were also subject to them.
Loretta in Indiana
July 1st, 2012
This is why term limits are an absolute necessity for all branches of government – Executive, Legislative and Judicial.
Two terms and done forever, and Zero perks and pensions afterwards.
Toaster
July 1st, 2012
Bitch McConnel and crying Boner need to go (among many others).
Bad Brad
July 1st, 2012
We desperately need a Citizen legislature to permanently fix our government.
Cruisin' Cat
July 1st, 2012
What we conveniently seem to forget, from instance to instance, is that neither party relenquishes power once it’s been established in the hands of government.
Jerry Manderin
July 1st, 2012
If Mitchy even tries to pull that crap, the hounds of hell will be released upon him…
berlet98
July 1st, 2012
Obamacare, an Absolutely Monumental Fraud
Fraudulent governmental initiatives and fraudulent private organizations all have one thing in common: They want the public to believe they are something they are not.
Case in point: Obamacare.
(The monumental frauds Facebook.com, Google.com, the Washington Post, and the United Nations, all of which are great fans of our president and all of which adhere to the misguided liberal principles of deception and distortion, will follow.)
Above all else, President Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrat Party hoped Americans would fall for the lies and hype and believe the Affordable Care Act was eminently affordable and that people who already had medical insurance and who were averse to socialistic medicine would be “permitted” by their government to keep their coverage and their doctors.
As when Obama “absolutely” pledged that Obamacare would not impose any new taxes, both claims have proven to be frauds.
By the time Obamacare is fully implemented in 2018, it not only will be unaffordable to many people but 20 new or greatly-increased taxes will have been levied on Americans and millions of the currently-insured would be able, “permitted,” to retain their doctors only if government bureaucrats approve of their physicians and their course of treatment.
Of course, none of that applies to those bureaucrats, or congressmen, or other federal employees since the ACA exempts them–and millions of workers in protected unions and industries–from Obamacare’s onerous and largely unknown provisions.
When the United States Supreme Court unexpectedly ruled last week that Obama’s legacy issue was constitutional and is now indisputably the law of the land, SCOTUS neglected to incorporate very relevant Obamacare details in its controversial decision.
Never mind that passage of Obamacare had so consumed the president and the Democrat Party for almost two years while they controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress that they were forced to pass the ACA by bribing and intimidating opponents.
Never mind that Obama and his Democrat Party ignored far more critical problems . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=26099.)
shutterbug
July 1st, 2012
All McConnell has to do is pay lip service, and promote a vote on the floor of the Senate before the November election, with a pre-ordained outcome, and he’s preserved his narrative while maintaining his power.
CrustyB
July 1st, 2012
50 Democrats vs. 50 Republicans – 10 RINOs = 40-60 repeal fails.
luxury fashion online
July 1st, 2012
Great luxury fashion online.
Ann Barnhardt
July 1st, 2012
#TaxStrikeNow
Dr. Tar
July 1st, 2012
The RINOs are going to be deperately running to avoid the gigantic tsunami that’s coming in November. They’ll be bashing the few remaining moderate Democreeps over the head with the oars in order to save their own space on the life raft.
Once the waters recede and the damage estimates from the flood are tally we’ll know if they got religion or are going to sin again in the temptation of big government.
Message to RINO – you can’t wait us out. We will know you from your actions and the Tea Party catch up to you if you stray to the left.
Bad Brad
July 1st, 2012
@ Ann, I’ve ponder that. With all the money the feds collect through out the year (Alcohol, Tobacco, Withholding, etc, etc, etc)the only way I would see you could deprive the evil beast is everyone claim as many deductions as they can, pull any money you have out of the bank and sew it in your mattress, and ignore 4-15. Then hang on, it would get interesting.
berlet98
July 2nd, 2012
Monumental Frauds Part Two: Facebook
(Second of five articles on monumental frauds. The first dealt with what is probably the most fraudulent piece of legislation in American history, the Affordable Care Act, better known as the Obamacare abomination. [http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=26099] Parts Two though Five deal with lesser but no less fraudulent enterprises, Facebook, Google, the Washington Post, and the United Nations.)
FACEBOOK. I’m not the first to refer to Facebook.com as a fraud.
The authoritative Tech News World said it and substantiated the charge in May, based on the company’s deceptive revenue, profit, advertising, and user reports. Rob Enderle concluded his “Facebook Is a Fraud” piece by writing, “I think (Mark) Zuckerberg’s going to learn the Bernie Madoff lesson–that taking advantage of trust has a very high cost at the CEO level.”
However, that betrayal of trust goes far beyond manipulating numbers.
Originally planned by Zuckerberg and three fellow Harvard students as a website designed to identify college hotties for horny, Ivy League lechers, Facebook has been in business for some eight years. During that brief time it has been beset by various lawsuits, minor and major scandals, yet now claims almost a billion members worldwide.
Thanks to its recent Initial Public Offering, Facebook has made Zuckerberg a multi-billionaire and dozens of his faithful employees multi-millionaires, which is a good thing, a classic American success story.
A success story with noticeable warts.
In May 2012, 28 year old Zuckerberg finally decided to take his (allegedly) stolen enterprise public with an IPO offering price of $38. and valued Facebook at an historically high $104 billion. (Eberly suggests its actual value is closer to .0001 of that figure.)
Greedily dreaming of getting in on the ground floor of an anticipated twenty-first century version of Microsoft and Apple, tens of thousands of investors and speculators bit on the over-priced, over-valued Facebook at $42.
Most were bitten on their financial asses by the realities of how things really work in the cut-throat financial world.
Except for favored banks and Wall Street insiders which were able to buy in at the IPO asking price, average investors and speculators lost money big and small time depending on their level of trust when FB stock went nowhere and, two months after its initial offering, was selling on NASDAQ for $31.10 a share.
So much for hype and overvaluation, so much for trust.
Katherine Losse served five, early years at Facebook and told all in her book, “The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network.“
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=26135.)