Democrats to America: We own the government!
Ann Coulter Letter
In the current fight over the government shutdown, Republicans are simply representing the views of the American people.
Dear Fellow Conservative,
In the current fight over the government shutdown, Republicans are simply
representing the views of the American people.
Americans didn’t ask for Obamacare, they don’t want it, but now their insurance premiums are going through the roof, their doctors aren’t accepting it, and their employers are moving them into part-time work — or firing them — to avoid the law’s mandates.
"Read More"Americans didn’t ask for Obamacare, they don’t want it, but now their insurance premiums are going through the roof, their doctors aren’t accepting it, and their employers are moving them into part-time work — or firing them — to avoid the law’s mandates.
Ann Coulter
Democrats to America: We own the
government!
In the current fight over the government shutdown, Republicans are simply representing the views of the American people.
Americans didn’t ask for Obamacare, they don’t want it, but now their
insurance premiums are going through the roof, their doctors aren’t accepting
it, and their employers are moving them into part-time work — or firing them —
to avoid the law’s mandates.
Contrary to Obama’s promises, it turns out: You can’t keep your doctor,
you can’t keep your insurance — you can’t even keep your job. In other words,
it’s a typical government program, but this one wrecks your health
care.
Also, the president did raise taxes on the middle class in defiance of
his well-worn campaign promise not to. Indeed, Obamacare is the largest tax hike
in U.S. history.
Among the other changes effected by this law are:
– Obamacare will allow insurers to charge 50 percent higher premiums for
smokers, but prohibits insurers from increasing premiums for those with
HIV/AIDS.
– Nationally, Obamacare will increase men’s individual insurance
premiums by an average of 99 percent and women’s by 62 percent. In North
Carolina, for example, individual insurance premiums will triple for women and
quadruple for men.
– Health plans valued at $27,500 or more for a family of four will be
taxed at a rate of 40 percent.
– No doctors who went to an American medical school will be accepting
Obamacare.
– A 62-year-old man earning $46,000 a year is entitled to a $7,836
government tax credit to buy health insurance. But if he earns an extra $22 in
income, he loses the entire $7,836 credit. He will have more take-home pay by
earning $46,000 than if he earns $55,000. (If he’s lucky, he already works for
one of the companies forced by Obamacare to reduce employees’
hours!)
– Merely to be eligible for millions of dollars in grants from the
federal government under Obamacare, education and training programs are required
to meet racial, ethnic, gender, linguistic and sexual orientation quotas. That’s
going to make health care MUCH better!
– Obamacare is turning America into a part-time nation. According to a
recent report by economist John Lott, 97 percent of all jobs added to the
economy so far this year have been part-time jobs. Ninety-seven
percent!
– Obamacare is such a disaster that the people who wrote it refuse to
live under it themselves. That’s right, Congress won a waiver from
Obamacare.
Responding to the people’s will, House Republicans first voted to fund
all of government — except Obamacare. Obama refused to negotiate and Senate
Democrats refused to pass it.
Then the Republicans voted to fully fund the government, but merely
delay the implementation of Obamacare for one year. Obama refused to negotiate
and Senate Democrats refused to pass it.
Finally, the Republicans voted to fully fund the government, but added a
requirement that everyone live under Obamacare. No more special waivers for
Congress and their staff, and no waivers for big business without the same
waivers for individuals.
Obama refused to negotiate and Senate Democrats refused to pass it. So
as you can see, Republicans are the big holdup here.
A longtime Democratic operative, Karen Finney, explained the Democrats’
intransigence on MSNBC to a delighted Joan Walsh (aka the most easily fooled
person on TV) by comparing House Republicans to a teenager trying to borrow his
mother’s car. “No, I’m not negotiating!” Mother says. “It’s MY
CAR!”
This wasn’t a stupid slip of the tongue that other Democrats quickly
rejected. Finney had used the exact same metaphor to a panel of highly agreeable
MSNBC guests the day before. (MSNBC books no other kind of
guest.)
The left thinks the government is their car and the people’s
representatives are obstreperous teenagers trying to borrow the government.
Which belongs to Democrats.
That’s not how the Constitution views the House of Representatives. To
the contrary, the House is considered most reflective of the people’s will
because its members are elected every two years.
As a matter of fact, the Republicans who mistakenly assume they have
something to do with running the government represent most of the people who pay
taxes to run it. So it’s more like a teenager who is making the car payments,
maintaining the car insurance and taking responsibility for registering the car
being told: “It’s not your car.”
But the Democrats refuse to even negotiate. It’s their government –
and if you Republicans think you’re going out dressed like that, you’ve got
another thing coming! Needless to say, they absolutely will not consider the
Republicans’ demand that Democrats merely live under Obamacare
themselves.
Instead, Democrats say “the Koch brothers” are behind the effort to
defund Obamacare.
They say Republicans are trying to “burn the whole house down” (Rep.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz); “have lost their minds” (Sen. Harry Reid); are trying
to negotiate “with a bomb strapped to their chest” (senior White House adviser
Dan Pfeiffer); are “legislative arsonists” (Rep. Nancy Pelosi); and are engaging
in “blatant extortion” (White House press secretary Jay
Carney).
The MSNBC crowd calls Republicans “arsonists” every 15 minutes. They
ought to check with fellow MSNBC host Al Sharpton. He knows his arsonists! In
1995, Sharpton whipped up a mob outside the Jewish-owned Freddy’s Fashion Mart
with an anti-Semitic speech. Sometime later, a member of the mob torched the
store, killing seven Hispanic employees.
Every single Democrat in the country uses the exact same talking point:
We “refuse to negotiate with a gun being held to our
head.”
Which means the Democrats will not negotiate at all — not now, not ever.
House Republicans have already passed three-dozen bills defunding, or otherwise
modifying, Obamacare. Senate Democrats and liberal commentators had a good laugh
at Republicans for passing them.Now they’re paying
attention!
If you are in the minority of Americans not already unalterably opposed
to Obamacare, keep in mind that the only reason the government is shut down
right now is that Democrats refuse to fund the government if they are required
to live under Obamacare.
That’s how good it is!
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