The GOP’s Crusade To Defund Obamacare Is Over
Three years after Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, Republicans accept they can’t defund it. But they keep going through the motions.
Three years after Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, Republicans accept they can’t defund it. But they keep going through the motions.
The president looks to put his digital arm to use in his second term and beyond.
But maintains that Obamacare is the wrong way to do it.
The Supreme Court is back from its summer recess (Nice gig, eh?) and ready to rule on affirmative action, drugs, dogs, and more. Here’s why you should care.
Religious families look for an alternative. The market at work.
Mitt Romney sometimes comes under fire for shifting views on whether he would have used his state model of health care reform, RomneyCare, as a model for national reform.
In Maumee, Obama defends his signature legislative achievement from Republican repeal efforts.
White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew strenuously argued today those not buying insurance after ObamaCare takes effect will be subject to a penalty, not a politically unsavory tax. But in 2008, then-Senator Obama attacked his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton’s plan for including a “penalty” for those not buying health insurance. A Republican source sends along the ad.
Thursday’s conflagration was hot and fast and lucrative. Now it’s time to move on.
Supreme Court’s health care sparks best day of small-dollar Romney fundraising of the campaign. $4.6 million from over 47,000 donors in first 24 hours. UPDATED
“I think what you’ve seen is that it hasn’t worked in Massachusetts.” With surrogates like these…
Eager anticipation turns to mere efficiency. “It focuses the change side of the equation to one solution: Support Romney,” says Stevens.
You’ve probably already seen a few of these on your Facetweet feeds and Tumblrist boards.
Romney spokeswoman says over $1 million raised since 10 a.m.
Campaign Manager Jim Messina unloads on Romney.
“Embarrassing.” “Fucking humiliating.” “Shameful.” A veteran producer jumps the gun, a young correspondent goes too far, and the network’s crisis deepens.
Obama devotes majority of his remarks to explaining the popular provisions of the unpopular bill.
Because when you think analysis of American politics, you think Philadelphia center Spencer Hawes.
What it really means. Health care professionals, from an OB/GYN to a therapist to a pharmacist, share their feelings on the law and how they foresee it affecting their practices and patients.
“I know it was the right thing to do,” he tells donors.
TIME Magazine’s Mark Halperin tells “Morning Joe” that the president will be a loser no matter what the court decides on health care.
The Supreme Court will rule to uphold, strike down, or kill part of President Obama’s landmark 2010 health care overhaul Thursday morning. That will only be the beginning.
It’s a policy the President supported as a Senator, as well as when campaigning for President as part of his health care plan: allowing cheap drug imports from Canada But according to emails mined by House Republicans as part of their investigation into Obama’s deal marking with the pharmaceutical industry to get health care reform passed, the President promised to protect the drug industry from such cheap imports.
Arizona Congressional Candidate Ron Gould also suggests he’ll patrol the border personally. West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin took a similar approach to cap-and-trade.
A memo obtained by BuzzFeed details the strategy — and the worry. “The final messaging will be either celebratory or agitational in tone depending on the result,” Van Vranken writes.
A source forwards this copy of a 20-page Obama Administration PowerPoint presentation, circulated by the Department of Health and Human Services to allies. The aim: Making the unpopular law more politically saleable. Read the whole thing here.
The Republican base is going to love this.
They’ve been quietly eyeing alternatives for more than a year. Will that give the Supreme Court an out?
Or was last week’s hubbub on the Supreme Court steps just a nostalgia trip. “We’ve matured into Tea Party 2.0,” says Kremer.
Democrats are up in the polls, and chuckling at Romney’s gaffes. Chicago needs to scare them to the polls.