As a result, we are seeing something unique in our history: an uprising of voters trying in every way possible to roll back an act that was always unpopular, and was passed by means most people think of as borderline legal, and without legitimacy in any sense of the word.
Whether people object to the act or the way it was passed is a moot question, as the answer is “both of them.” And its chances of surviving in the form it was passed in grow less and less every day.
Perhaps Democrats should have spent less time trying to buy and bully their members into stiffing their voters, and more time trying to build up the public’s support.
Perhaps when the Tea Parties began, they should have tried to pre-empt or defuse them, and not dismiss them as racists and “Astroturf.” Perhaps they shouldn’t have listened to liberal bloggers and listened instead to the voters.
Long Time Gone
Yeah, good luck repealing health care reform. It sounds good to say during “REPEAL OBAMACARE†during a campaign, but it’s little tougher to do legally. Passing the law will keep some of them from getting re-elected, but there is no way the law gets repealed.
It sounds better to say “repeal” instead of “reform” because reform sounds too much like what Obama did to it I suppose.
With candidates like Angle, O’Donnell, Miller, Haley and Paladino I’m sure the future of the Tea Party is bright.
The Repbulicans are going to screw this thing up and get Obama re-elected in ’12. Mark my words.
You have the right to your own opinion, but not your own facts. The democrats have been on the sidelines cheering on the Tea Party, it is the best thing that could have happened. It is the Republicans that have been trying to both take it over and kill it.