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Home Front: Politix
Obamacare Then, Affordable Care Act Now
2013-11-22
[FREEBEACON] The term "Obamacare" has largely disappeared from the mouths of Democrats as the president's health care reform law has gone from a rallying cry to a political grenade.

President B.O. once said he embraced the phrase on the 2012 campaign trail, telling supporters, "I do care." As recently as Nov. 8, Obama predicted to a laughing crowd in New Orleans that his political opponents would stop using the term once the law became popular.

"I know health care is controversial, so there's only going to be so much support we get on that on a bipartisan basis -- until it's working really well, and then they're going to stop calling it Obamacare," he said. "They're going to call it something else."

However,
the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything...
 it has seemed to change names with the Democrats instead as the law's popularity has slumped to new lows in the wake of Obama's broken promises, rising premiums, insurance cancellations and a disastrous rollout. Obama's approval rating has also plummeted as a result.

During an apologetic presser Nov. 14, Obama referred to his law as the Affordable Care Act 12 times but did not say "Obamacare" once. House Minority Leader Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace...
, who has referred to the law as Obamacare in the past, told Meet the Press host David Gregory that she "always" referred to it as the Affordable Care Act during an interview Sunday, and other Democrats are backing off the term as well.
Posted by:Fred

#9  Dems know they may be screwed in the next election. They just nuked Senate filibusters so they can pack as many liberal judges in the Judicial Branch, the branch they have always had trouble with, before they head out the door.
Posted by: Guillibaldo McCoy1948   2013-11-22 18:16  

#8  
Posted by: Pappy   2013-11-22 16:23  

#7  For any program to work, be it overhauling a bicycle or overhauling a national health care plan that is 1/5th of the nations economy, it all has to start with a solid plan. Obama and all of his "Community Activists" have never planned, organized, staffed, or directed a program of any size through completion. All they ever do is intimidate a city into implementing their ideas, leaving it all for someone else to figure out. What I believe we are seeing is the classic failures of an activist at a global level.
The issue now becomes of fixing the issue at hand. We cant go back, they have poisoned the well so to speak. We have to now figure out how to rebuild 1/5th of our economic structure and not totally destroy this nation in the process.
This is not an obumble sized failure, its bigger than his normal screw ups and will take the very best we have to save the health care in America.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2013-11-22 13:51  

#6  Wahhahaha, she's tempting.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-11-22 11:18  

#5  Can't remember who said that :-) Besoeker this will jog your memory

Pigs have long featured in proverbial expressions: a "pig's ear," a "pig in a poke," as well as the Biblical expressions "pearls before swine" and "ring of gold in a swine's snout." Indeed, whereas the phrase "lipstick on a pig" seems to have been coined in the 20th century, the concept of the phrase may not be particularly recent. The similar expression, "You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear" seems to have been in use by the middle of the 16th century or earlier. Thomas Fuller, the British physician, noted the use of the phrase "A hog in armour is still but a hog" in 1732, here, as the Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1796) later noted "hog in armour" alludes to "an awkward or mean looking man or woman, finely dressed." The Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892) recorded the variation "A hog in a silk waistcoat is still a hog" in his book of proverbs The Salt-Cellars (published 1887).

The "lipstick" variant of the phrase is more modern (the word "lipstick" itself was only coined in 1880). The rhetorical effect of linking pigs with lipstick was explored in 1926 by Charles F. Lummis, in the Los Angeles Times, when he wrote "Most of us know as much of history as a pig does of lipsticks." However, the first recorded uses of "putting lipstick on a pig" are later. In an article in the Quad-City Herald (Brewster, Washington) from Jan. 31 1980, it was observed that "You can clean up a pig, put a ribbon on it's [sic] tail, spray it with perfume, but it is still a pig." The phrase was also reported in 1985 when The Washington Post quoted a San Francisco radio host from KNBR-AM remarking "That would be like putting lipstick on a pig" in reference to plans to refurbish Candlestick Park (rather than constructing a new stadium for the San Francisco Giants).

Besoeker, give us a kiss....
Posted by: Au Auric   2013-11-22 11:07  

#4  And #2...
Posted by: JohnQC   2013-11-22 10:16  

#3  Its about preserving the legacy of the ONE. Otherwise as #1 says.
Posted by: JohnQC   2013-11-22 10:15  

#2  You can put lipstick on a pig, but he's still a pig.
- Can't remember who said that :-)
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-11-22 07:50  

#1  Well, it'll never be called Hillary-Care. Like its (dead) predecessor, that it.
Posted by: Bobby   2013-11-22 07:35  

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