{"id":11621,"date":"2012-03-21T21:07:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T02:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=11621"},"modified":"2012-03-21T21:07:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T02:07:23","slug":"the-two-year-anniversary-of-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=11621","title":{"rendered":"The Two Year Anniversary of ObamaCare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aapsonline.org\/index.php\/site\/article\/aaps_news_april_2012_-_obamacare_2nd_anniversary_opposition_grows\/\">two year anniversary of the passage of ObamaCare<\/a>. Note that <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/03\/19\/republicans-prepare-to-celebrate-obamacare-anniversary\/\">Republicans are marking the anniversary<\/a> of Obama&#8217;s signature achievement, while the White House <a href=\"http:\/\/nation.foxnews.com\/obamacare\/2012\/03\/19\/wh-has-no-plans-mark-obamacare-anniversary\">is not<\/a>. Even Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/right-turn\/post\/obamacare-is-now-obamas-liability\/2012\/03\/10\/gIQARdRY3R_blog.html\">admits that it&#8217;s an electoral liability for Democrats<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>That might have something to do with its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/2012\/03\/19\/obamacare-remains-deeply-unpopular\/\">stupendous unpopularity<\/a>, not only among Republicans, but also among <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/bench-memos\/293406\/obamacare-still-unpopular-ammon-simon\">Democrats<\/a>. Obama says that&#8217;s because of <a href=\"http:\/\/nation.foxnews.com\/white-house\/2012\/03\/19\/white-house-blames-obamacare-unpopularity-attack-ads\">attack ads<\/a> against it. Charles Krauthammer <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/03\/19\/krauthammer-obamacare-like-bad-dog-food\/\">says that&#8217;s bunk<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bvYPrYowuQ8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a widespread understanding that ObamaCare isn&#8217;t good for anyone, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2012\/03\/21\/obamacares-2nd-anniversary-no-gift-for-young-americans\/\">especially young people<\/a>, and it&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304724404577289363234579868.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop\">budgetary disaster<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>And next week the Supreme Court will hear arguments on its constitutionality. Many are suggesting that a decision in ObamaCare&#8217;s favor will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Newsfront\/Obamacare-GOP-candidates-repeal\/2012\/03\/20\/id\/433143\">actually damage Obama&#8217;s reelection chances<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t supposed to work out this way. Liberals thought ObamaCare would get more popular after passage. Instead, it was one of the biggest factors in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=3382\">the historic wipe-out Democratic House members experienced in 2010<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>More specifically, eight out of the eleven &#8220;Stupak Block Flippers&#8221; (i.e., the theoretically staunch pro-life Democrats who swore up and down they would never, ever, ever vote for ObamaCare if it included taxpayer funding for abortion, right up until they voted for taxpayer-funded abortion) went down in electoral defeat. At the time, the insistence for public funding for abortion seemed like a tactical error on the part of liberals. After all, why bother with that tiny sop to feminists when you&#8217;re busy nationalizing one-sixth of the economy?<\/p>\n<p>But since then, the fervor with which Democrats have pursued imposing this mandate on Catholics (part and parcel of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=4155\">contempt for religion<\/a>), their white hot fury at Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s (admittedly foolish) remarks, and the continuing overheated, drama queen <a href=\"http:\/\/accordingtohoyt.com\/2012\/03\/18\/war-is-hell\/\">&#8220;war on women&#8221;<\/a> rhetoric coming from the left side of the blogsphere suggests that yes, that <i>was<\/i> what ObamaCare was really about, and they&#8217;re willing to remain a permanent political minority to maintain it.<\/p>\n<p>So be it. If forcing taxpayers to pay for abortions is the hill they want to die on*, I suppose we should let them. (Though not at the cost of failing to mention Obama&#8217;s failure on the economy, on creating the conditions for private industry to create jobs, Fast &#038; Furious, or his naked cronyism.) As Mickey Kaus <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/03\/13\/psst-obama-lost-the-birth-control-mandate-debate\/\">has noted<\/a>, this issue is a serious political loser for Obama, and we should keep hammering away on it, not despite the shrieks of outrage from liberalism&#8217;s feminist amen corner, but because of them. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>*&#8221;Violent, eliminationist&#8221; military metaphor offered up as free rhetorical bonus!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the two year anniversary of the passage of ObamaCare. Note that Republicans are marking the anniversary of Obama&#8217;s signature achievement, while the White House is not. Even Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer admits that it&#8217;s an electoral liability for Democrats. That might have something to do with its stupendous unpopularity, not only among Republicans, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":22,"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,17,11,1335,24,232],"tags":[28,2864,2862,622,86,317,64,2866,90,1537,1538,281,2878],"class_list":["post-11621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-democrats","category-media-watch","category-obama-scandals","category-obamacare","category-welfare-state","tag-charles-krauthammer","tag-democrats","tag-elections","tag-feminism","tag-liberals","tag-mickey-kaus","tag-obama","tag-obamacare","tag-polls","tag-rush-limbaugh","tag-steny-hoyer","tag-stupak","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11621"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11643,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11621\/revisions\/11643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}