In light of the
latest GOP proclamation of Obamacare DOOOM, why don't we take a look back at a handful of their past predictions, just to remind us how wrong these people constantly are?
John Boehner, 1/6/2011:
When you step back and look at the totality of this, I don't think it's ever going to work.
Victor Davis Hanson, National Review,
11/13/2013:
In the next 90 days, the Obama administration will have to declare victory and then abandon most of Obamacare. The legislation defies the laws of physics.
Bill Kristol,
11/3/2013:
Obamacare is failing and will fail. And I'm very much looking forward to being on this show [Meet the Press] with [David Axelrod] in January of 2017 when finally all of Obamacare is repealed."
Rep. Paul Broun,
10/07/2013:
America is going to be destroyed by Obamacare, so whatever deal is put together must at least reschedule the implementation of Obamacare. This law is going to destroy America and everything in America, and we need to stop it.
Glenn Beck,
11/19/2009:
This is the end of prosperity in America forever, if this passes. This is the end of America as you know it.
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Tom Coburn, 10/13/2010:
There will be no insurance industry left in three years. That is by design. You’re going to make insurance unaffordable for everyone — which is what they want. Because if there’s no private insurance left, what’s left? Government-centered, government-run, single-payer health care.
Rush Limbaugh,
2/6/2014:
This is horrible for our country ... an absolute tragedy ... It breaks my heart folks to see this literal tragedy happen to this country ... Obamacare is going to cost this country two and half million jobs minimum."
John Boehner,
7/15/2012:
ObamaCare is only making our economy worse, driving up health costs and making it harder for small businesses to hire.
Rand Paul,
2/20/2015:
I think that what’s going to come out of ObamaCare is worse than anybody can imagine. I think it will lead to bankruptcy in the states that are fully embracing it.
Scott Walker,
2/20/2015:
In a 2013 interview with CNBC's Larry Kudlow, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker argued that Obamacare was hampering the economic recovery.
"They made a promise that nobody could actually deliver on, not just in terms of the website, but on the overall policy of Obamacare, which is an abysmal failure," Walker told Kudlow, adding, "It's not only a failure for Obamacare, it is continuing to be a wet blanket on the recovery of the nation's economy."
"Firm after firm telling the White House, the administration this isn't going to work," Walker went on. "It's either one of those things where there not listening to the facts, or they're not being informed, in either case, it's troubling."
"Troubling," Kudlow chimed in, "No CEO experience whatsoever."
There are definitely two sides to our politics today, and they are "right" and "wrong." In a sane world, that whole "wrong" crowd would never have a platform or be treated seriously again.
It's also amazing how resilient the law has been in the face of persistent and pervasive obstruction and resistance from the GOP, from refusing to expand Medicare Medicaid in all states, to a blizzard of legal challenges, to propagandizing its own supporters from taking advantage of the law's benefits. And yet it keeps trucking on.