The Republican Strategy

Posted on June 5, 2012 at 11:12 am by Bob Cesca

Kevin Drum:

1. Do everything humanly possible to prevent the economy from recovering.

2. Wait for 2012.

3. Run a campaign focused on the fact that the economy is lousy.

Job well done, Republicans. Interesting how they’re able to shit all over American jobs and the American economy for the sake of some votes.

I would also add this corollary:

4. Say the exact opposite of everything that is true.

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  • http://doran.pacifist.net/ Doran

    5. Everyone who disagrees is un-American.

  • desertflower1

    When all else fails…LIE!

  • desertflower1

    a little O/T…but emails have come to light because the WSJ put in a request. Interesting reading, to be sure!

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303918204577447061452012178.html

    This also includes Romney’s Healthcare Plan in MA…”confidential” of course.

    At one point, he wanted the individual mandate so badly, that he thought about shaming those companies that didn’t do right by their employees, that he wanted to publish the company names in the newspaper. Didn’t come to pass..but seriously? NOW, of course, he HATES his ideas…because, you know, he’s running for President for goodness sakes!

    Mr. Romney once trumpeted the overhaul as his signature achievement as governor, but he has since played it down amid GOP attacks on the 2010 federal health-care bill signed by President Barack Obama, which bears similarities to the Massachusetts plan. Both contain individual mandates that require residents to buy health insurance.

    Mr. Romney today defends the Massachusetts plan as a state initiative, while attacking what he calls “ObamaCare” as an unjustified federal takeover of the health-care system. Many Republicans oppose the individual mandate as unconstitutional, and the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule this month on that issue.

    Read all of it. He sure steps in it a lot….will there be ANYONE left that trusts this guy when it’s all said and done?

    • GrafZeppelin127

      The individual mandate is as far to the right as you can go if your goal is quasi-universal coverage. Even if it’s fair to say, and I think it is, that quasi-universal coverage is in itself a liberal/progressive goal, the individual mandate is the most conservative way to achieve that liberal/progressive goal.

      The only thing to the right of the individual mandate is a system that prevents uninsured people who can’t pay in full from getting treatment even in emergencies. It would:

      - repeal EMTALA;
      - make it illegal for any 911 operator, EMT, doctor, hospital, &c. to treat or dispatch emergency services for any patient they have reason to believe is uninsured and cannot pay in full;
      - limit or eliminate liability for 911 operators, EMTs, doctors, hospitals, &c. for negative medical outcomes caused by their refusal to treat patients whom they reasonably believe are uninsured and can’t pay;
      - allow (or require) 911 operators, EMTs, doctors, hospitals, &c. to demand proof of insurance or up-front payment in full before dispatching EMS or administering treatment;
      - limit or eliminate liability for 911 operators, EMTs, doctors, hospitals, &c. for negative medical outcomes caused by delays and errors in confirming insurance/payment;
      - make it illegal for anyone to call 911 or go to an ER in an emergency if they are uninsured and cannot pay in full, or do so on behalf of someone who is uninsured and cannot pay in full.

    • bobzaguy

      Isn’t the ACA based on a Heritage Foundation concept?
      I’m getting old and my memory has grand lapses of reality and fantasy.

      • desertflower1

        Sure is:) from ThinkProgress:
        The exchange originated as a Republican idea and was developed in part by the Heritage Foundation’s Stuart Butler. The measure was eventually adopted by Mitt Romney and later became part of the Democrats’ health reform plan. Under the Affordable Care Act, states that don’t establish their own exchanges by 2014, cede control of the new health market places to the federal government. In 2010, while still governor of Minnesota, Pawlenty rejected the ACA’s “insurance exchanges,” dubbing them a federal takeover.

        They ALWAYS “forget” when things get inconvenient.

        • bobzaguy

          Ha! And I thought I was forgetful!

          • desertflower1

            NO! You remember the important things, I bet…like this:)

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  • Victor_the_Crab

    And if the American public is stupid enough to believe in all that, and elect Romney president and give the Republicans both the House and Senate, then America is so FUCKING DOOMED!!!

    • http://phydeauxpseaks.blogspot.com Bob Rutledge

      if the American public is stupid enough to believe in all that, and elect Romney president and give the Republicans both the House and Senate, then America will have proven that it is already FUCKEDING DOOMED!!!

      (here’s hoping I got all the HTML right)

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/VE2UZMPZEVURVS6MEIB2OUGI54 Chris Harrell

    republicans are scum, but what does that say about the people who vote for them?