2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMichele Bachmann: 'The Obamacare Political Fight Isn't Ripe Right Now'
The Huffington Post | by Paige Lavender
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said now's not the time to fight against Obamacare.
In an interview with the St. Cloud Times, Bachmann elaborated on comments she made earlier this month to the Washington Post, when she said "most of us don't think it's the time to fight."
Obamacare is in effect now," Bachmann told the St. Cloud Times. "Sometimes a political fight is ripe, and sometimes it isnt. And the Obamacare political fight isn't ripe right now on the debt ceiling.
Bachmann said 2013's debt limit showdown "was our last chance" to fight against Obamcare before it went into effect. We needed to keep fighting until the last possible opportunity, and thats what that vote was about," Bachmann said.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/14/michele-bachmann-obamacare_n_4788264.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
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(52,440 posts)calimary
(81,565 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,452 posts)How much more mileage they can squeeze from it remains unknown, however. I hope that people have gotten as sick of it as we all have. In fact, I hope that it backfires on them. What is it about people having access to affordable healthcare coverage that makes them so mean and angry? They are spending all of their time and energy trying to outmaneuver President Obama and the Dems on the ACA that they aren't even pretending to come up solutions for covering people that they would "approve" of.
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(52,440 posts)-- and their loyal 30+% would still shake their tiny firsts and donate and turn out for them.
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(57,427 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)they obviously don't even have the votes in Congress to win this fight, and probably will not get enough in the foreseeable future. All this seems to be is more red meat for their whackadoo base.
marble falls
(57,427 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,452 posts)by then I don't even think that there will be any will to repeal it by then unless it turns into a real disaster but then again I keep wondering exactly how it will be a disaster (or at least one that can't be fixed and tweaked here and there). I mean, the ACA IS the health care system right now and whatever the Republicans do to it are now (and certainly by then) going to cause significant disruptions that will make ACA's implementation troubles pale by comparison, not to mention that people whom are now covered by ACA are (likely) not going to feel the same "revolutionary zeal" about repealing it that the Republican Tea Party apparently does.
Loaded Liberal Dem
(230 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Whatever it is we need to force feed it to a bunch more people.
idendoit
(505 posts)The secret FEMA re-education camps in the Minnesota 6th are almost finished. I live in the 5th and my Representative , who I am very proud of, is Keith Ellison. Go figure.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Amonester
(11,541 posts)"anything from our past batsh!t-crazy stuff"
"and we don't realize we're drowning ourselves in shrinking demographics"
Yup.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)supernova
(39,345 posts)to use that expression, "ripe"?
It's an odd construct and sounds completely unlike her. Again, who coached her to say that?