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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhich was the bigger news event today: ACA upheld or Holder found in contempt?
How do you see it?
I think the Dems ought to take a quick victory lap on ACA (after all, it was already passed) and then HAMMER THE FUCK out of the contempt vote.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Raven
(13,910 posts)was a comedy.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)ACA is the news, and I want to thank all the RW talking heads for their outrage.
They seem convinced that the average voter is as much against health care reform as they are.
But they're wrong.
I'm not hearing or seeing any thing in the media about the Holder vote, except here on DU.
FarLeftFist
(6,161 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)denverbill
(11,489 posts)He won't be prosecuted or fired.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,235 posts)It then goes to the....get this....Attorney General's office to enforce the contempt. I see it going places there.
It was a petty political stunt with no legs. Feigned outrage over some absent minded Bush initiated program that Holder actually demanded answers to when shit hit the fan. Nothing more and nothing less.
hlthe2b
(102,575 posts)Only hard corp political-followers and frothing RW/NRA sycophants.
sakabatou
(42,206 posts)EarlG
(22,002 posts)Repubs must have thought they were going to get in a double whammy today -- ACA struck down plus the contempt vote, making the Obama administration look extremely vulnerable. Except with the upholding of ACA Obama now looks like a winner and the contempt vote looks like partisan sour grapes.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Everyone knew Holder would happen.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)The GOP wanted to PILE ON ... ACA overturned, then the Holder vote ... they would have flogged those 2 victories from now till Nov 6th.
With the ACA upheld, they are screwed ... and they now look like a bunch of angry children throwing a tantrum.
Stinky The Clown
(67,849 posts)perspective.
They ought to be out there hammer the repubics about it night and day.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)But I think when they use this, they should also include all of the abortion bills, and women's rights bills, as a large story of the GOP's OBSTRUCT OBSTRUCT OBSTRUCT position.
malthaussen
(17,241 posts)ACA will affect tens of millions of people. The Holder vote was just more partisan pony-puckey.
-- Mal
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)BumRushDaShow
(130,122 posts)The full name - "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act".
Will rule the airwaves - and moreso because of that Fortune magazine article.
GarroHorus
(1,055 posts)maddezmom
(135,060 posts)11 Bravo
(23,928 posts)99Forever
(14,524 posts)Take no prisoners. Kick 'em while they are down and never let these bastards get back up. It's the only language the sociopaths understand.