DUELING MONEY PITCHES, both campaigns sending out a slew of emails, each claiming millions of dollars raised off of the Supreme Court decision on Obamacare.
This is what our politics has come down to, folks.
From The Hill, Team Romney’s version:
Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign has raised $4.6 million since the Supreme Court ruled that President Obama’s healthcare law is constitutional.
Romney started raising funds immediately after the decision, and in a message to supporters Friday morning his campaign spokeswoman said he had raised $4.6 million from 47,000 donations.
In the wake of Mitt Romney’s 24-hour fundraising blitz, President Obama’s Chicago-based reelection campaign is claiming that they’ve actually raised more.
“We’ve outraised the Romney campaign in that time period but that’s not the point – our supporters are more committed than ever to ensuring that insurance companies can’t drop coverage for people who get sick or discriminate against people with preexisting conditions by reelecting the President,” campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said in an email.
The Obama campaign started the day Thursday with Jim Messina emailing: “..But no matter what, today is an important day to have Barack Obama’s back. If you’re with him, donate now…”
Not to be left out, the Tea Party is back, according to Roll Call. No, really.
“This is not about health care; this is about government overreach and government power. This is the biggest tax increase in U.S. history,” Kremer said. “The silver lining is that it has riled everybody up.”
Evidently, the Tea Partiers are as uninformed about Obamacare as they are about the U.S. Constitution, and the Supreme Court. The tax isn’t automatic, quite the opposite. Most people won’t be impacted at all, because they already have health insurance. We already pay exorbitant costs when uninsured need emergency care, but that’s okay?
“It’s perverse that Mitt Romney wont share details about what he’d do for the millions he’d leave uninsured or at the whims of insurance companies when he ‘kills Obamacare dead,’ but he’ll share the hourly details of his fundraising after the Supreme Court ruling,” LaBolt said. [Politico]
Once again, as William F. Buckley described so brilliantly, conservatism is about being against something. We still do not know what Romney is for doing on health care if his fantasy of repealing Obamacare is ever set in motion.
New Progressive Alliance sent me an e-mail saying that the Green party candidate for President had collected enough funds in several states to qualify for matching funds. As a long time supporter of the Greens it was heartening to hear this news; of course, it won’t make any difference now. One can only hope that it is the beginning of something. If for no other reason, corporate media must be broken up. Getting the message out about third parties and getting third party candidates into the debates will never happen as long as corporate media is enthralled and paid by the two major candidates.
Ahhhh, the maturity of well educated adults. Followed by the hypocrisy of the same folks. I guess immaturity and hypocrisy go hand-in-hand.
“Evidently, the Tea Partiers are as uninformed about Obamacare as they are about the U.S. Constitution, and the Supreme Court.”
Falls so heavily into the NO DUH catagory you would think there was a black hole at the bottom of the column!
Stop blaming the victims. The real evil here is employee-sponsored/group health insurance. The entire health care debate is fiction. How many people with health insurance would not be covered if there was no group plans available; 50%, 25%, 10%? How many people would gladly buy insurance on their own if insurance companies would provide coverage or if it was affordable? The ACA is a sham because employers and insurance companies are still in control of administering insurance. In 2014, when these “insurance exchanges” are set up at the state level, who do you think will structure and run them? It will be state lawmakers controlled by private businesses.
If you’re under 26 years of age, you can remain on your parents insurance. Big fucking deal. What is your parents don’t have insurance? you were just born into the wrong family? This is kool-aid talk. Thousands of businesses (like McDonald’s) received an exemption from the Obama administration to avoid immediate compliance. now that the SC has waved the red cape of taxation in front of conservatives this charade will be delayed and sabotaged at every turn. the ACA is perfect for fundraising emails and newsletters and selling more and more advertising by the media but for providing every American with health coverage, not so much.
TPAZ, 100 percent correct. Please cut your comment and paste it on Media Matters for America’s site, and see how long it takes for a swarm of idiots to thumbs-down you, call you a “troll” and a “whiner” and who just “hates Obama” and who “wants everything to be Perfect.” You’ll also get a number of non-replies like “what, you think ROMNEY will do it better?” and a load of BS about how wonderful the ACA is and Hey HillaryCare Didn’t Pass See How Amazing Obama Is?
The other day, I pointed out that the ACA does next to nothing to control costs. I was attacked by people who said yes it does- starting in 2014. When I pointed out what you did- that the people in charge are already in the pocket of the insurance industry- I was called uninformed and told to go away. So I did. For good. And I’m sure I’ll miss absolutely nothing of value.
Eventually, when the silly season is over, the Number One issue will become the tax bomb set to hit on December 31, 2012 which is combined with steep cuts in spending ranging from the Pentagon to the Parks department. Anyone want to bet that Obama agrees to an extension of the Bush tax cuts and we all look like Charlie Brown missing the football again?
History repeats itself. In 1936 a lawsuit was file by several GOP controlled states that wanted to overturn the 1935 Social Security Act as being unconstitutional. The Conservative Supreme Court had already overturned many New Deal legislative acts as being unconstitutional. When the SCOTUS took up the lawsuit all the pundits and political analysts were in complete agreement, SCOTUS was going to overturn the Social Security Act as being unconstitutional.When the decision was announced two of the most conservative justices who had voted previously to repeal all the New Deal legislation that came before the court switched and voted to uphold social security as constitutional. The conservatives were outraged claiming that the two justices who reversed course were intimidated by FDR.
The Progressive left was also outraged, they wanted the social security act to be ruled unconstitutional but for a different reason, it hadn’t gone far enough and they accused FDR of aligning himelf with the large block of Jim Crow southern Democratic Senators who had blocked the Social Security Act for two years insisting that the ACT be written to exclude most African Americans from being aligible to particpate.
Having languished in the Senate for two years FDR agreed to re-write the Act to exclude most African American by excluding agricultural workers, domestic servant workers and even Pullman porters from being eligible for Social Security.
FDR didn’t want those exclusionary rules to be part of the Social Security ACT of 1935 but agreed to the changes because he realized that without the votes of Jim Crow Democratic Senators, Social Security would would be dead for generations and eventually the agregious rules would be removed over time, as they were.
The Progressive left and the GOP can stew in their adolescent sore loser complaints, the facts are Obama won, you lost, get over it.
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