"ObamaCare"

[raging_moderate]

My latest facebook entry regarding the fallacy that is "ObamaCare"

Part 1 of 2. The 2010 American Word Institute annual report out. Finding #1: for the 57th straight year “gullible” is still not listed in any major English language dictionary. Per Dr. Lou Kwaicius of the Institute. “Look it up for yourself if you don’t believe me.”

Part 2 of 2. Finding #2 from the Word Institute: “ObamaCare” isn’t a word. “There isn’t even such an entity. Congress writes laws. It would be more accurately called ‘CongressCare.’ It’s actually a politically motivated plant by the GOP and corporations who profit from the status quo. Kind of like ‘Democrat Party.’ It’s actually ‘Democrat-IC’ Party.” When asked why people fell for it: “See finding #1 above.”

[Oregone]

1. Lets reframe it as NixonCare. Thatll show em

[MannyGoldstein]

2. It's Actually "RomneyCare"

Obama simply thought it was a fabulous idea: in fact, Obama's publicly stated that he simply championed Romney's idea.

[emulatorloo]

4. "Obama's publicly stated that he simply championed Romney's idea." BS

What he said in the interview was that some commentators had compared it to Romney's Mass plan.

[MannyGoldstein]

5. So... What Do You Think This Means?

"When you actually look at the bill itself, it incorporates all sorts of Republican ideas. I mean a lot of commentators have said this is sort of similar to the bill that Mitt Romney, the Republican Governor and now presidential candidate, passed in Massachusetts." - And he did not go on to deny the comparison.

Are you saying he was falsely creating the impression that his bill was, at its basis, just the same as Romney's?

Same damn bill with different window dressing, and 2,700 pages of gifts and hiding places for the Predator Class - why else doesn't it kick in for four years?

[emulatorloo]

6. read the whole interview and look at the context

In no way is he "championing" Romneycare."

The statement was made in the context of talking about the absurd bullshit about how "socialist" and 'radical" the Republicans (including Romney) have been shoveling. The point was highlight Republican hypocrisy.

Sorry if I seem on edge, but I have pretty much had it with distortion on DU. We can do better than that,

[MannyGoldstein]

7. I Read What I Could Find - Still not Seeing Your Point

He's still implying that what he did is essentially the same as RomneyCare.

Perhaps you can be specific if I'm being dense.

[BlooInBloo]

3. One would think that after 57 years, someone would point that out to the dictionary people.

Wait wut?

[TorchTheWitch]

9. it's in my English language dictionary

And this is the same one I've had since I was a little kid.

[ChicagoSuz219]

8. I prefer to call it ObamaCares. n/t

[Zen Democrat]

10. The Republicans framed this as Obamacare because they copied their earlier "Hillarycare" --

and I think they believed this would indicate it would be a "loser" too. Yet, Obama succeeded. I don't have a problem with calling it Obamacare. If the Republicans had called it "FDR Senior Security" I'd be fine with that. Or KennedyCare instead of Medicare, since President Kennedy proposed it in his administration. I'd be more than happy to see Obama owning healthcare reform. I bought one of those "Obamacare: It's a Big F**king Deal" coffee mugs and torment my Republican boss with it every morning.