Dems Spending More on Anti-Obamacare Ads Than Pro-Obamacare Ads
**Written by Doug Powers
When President Obama signed the “big f-in deal” health care law in the spring, he hailed it as “reforms that generations of Americans have fought for and marched for and hungered to see.”
Those “generations of Americans” obviously don’t include a great number of this generation of congressional Democrats who voted to pass the law. Politico reports that Democrats are spending at least three times more money on ads distancing themselves from the health care law as they are taking credit for it:
Since the beginning of Congress’s August recess, Democratic candidates have poured $930,000 into ads deriding the health overhaul but just $300,000 in pro-reform spots, according to Evan Tracey at Kantar Media.
“Go back to 2006, and even before that, and Democrats used health care as their No. 1 issue,” Tracey said. “They had a villain in the pharmaceutical industry. Now that they passed this law, it’s almost disarmed them rather than given them an opportunity.”
Moreover, Tracey’s data shows that health reform opponents – inside and outside of Congress – are increasingly outspending supporters. Opponents now spend seven times as much on anti-reform spots as supporters spend on pro-reform spots, a marked change from early May, when their dollars only doubled those of reform advocates.
It seems like forever since the halcyon days of… March:
Update: In related news, Jimmy Carter is blaming Ted Kennedy for blocking health care reform in 1979:
“The fact is that we would have had comprehensive healthcare now had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed,” Carter said in an interview to air Sunday on “60 Minutes” on CBS. “It was his fault. Ted Kennedy killed the bill.”
That’s what you get for storing the bill in the trunk, Jimmy.
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Which leads to a question – If this is the case and the For before they were Against Democrats are now running away from Fearless Leader – does that make them Racist?
They can run, but they can’t hide! We know who you are. Thanks to the internet, talk radio, and Fox for giving us the true facts.
L
Oh dear! Mightn’t this be a sign of division among Democrats, Chairman Kaine?
Any Dem who was not politically suicidal would, at the very least, refrain from mentioning Obamacare in terms of “taking credit” for it. But we know how they voted at the time and nothing they say now can change that.
I wonder how many of these Dem’s bad mouthing Obamacare voted for the thing?
It would make a great commercial if a D opponent voted for Obamacare and is now running commercials against it. It could say something like..
Congressman/Senator (insert name) recently ran an add saying that Obamacare is ruining the country. If they believe this why did they vote for it in the first place?
Politicians! Follow what they do, not what they say because they LIE.
Keep in mind that they never read the 3,000 page bill in the first place so how do they know it doesn’t have some good stuff in it? Oh, never mind.
If these idiots were in the old Soviet Politburo, Joe Stalin would have them on a train to the gulags by now. What a pack of Keystone Cops. They are a laughingstock and an embarassment to themselves and America.
If anyone had any illusions about this band of vermin, this should finally clear up what the hell we are fighting against,
“White House Science Czar Says He
Would Use ‘Free Market’
to ‘De-Develop the United States’
Every sigle Donk should be hammered with this, over and over again.
Whoa, Doug! That’s gonna leave a mark.
This too.
Carter.
What a dangerous idiot.
He’s actually following the advice of the saying (paraphrase?):
If you have to blame somebody for something, blame the dead guy”.
I sure hope that means that if forced to vote up or down on a repeal of Obamacare, Democrats would vote to repeal by a margin of 3 to 1.
For the sake of argument, let’s just say that Republicans win both the House and Senate with 52% of the seats in each house. If the 48% of the seats controlled by Democrats break 36% to 12% in favor of repeal, that means a veto-proof majority of 88% would favor repeal.
We don’t need Republicans to hold 2/3 of the actual seats. We just need Republicans to win majorities in both houses so we can bring a 1-page bill to repeal the hundreds of pages of the so-called “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”, and then the Democrats who actually want to be re-elected in 2012 will give us the margins we need to override Obama’s veto.
Call me a dreamer.
I think it’s doable in the wake of the Conservative Tsunami this November.
Yes, and if they are elected/re-elected the same Dems will fight the Republicans tooth and nail to prevent Obamacare from being repealed.
RedDog#10,
That too! Thanks.
L
Funny how the story changes after Obamacare gets passed:
But it isn’t 30 million anymore. As of today the Census Bureau reports that the number of Americans without health coverage rose to 16.7% — or 50.7 million people. Now that’s what I call “coverage that every American can count on”. I guess we had to pass the bill to see what’s not in it.
Flyoverman,
Democratic Senators who get re-elected in 2010 may fight a repeal, and
perhaps Democratic Senators who don’t have to run for re-election until 2014 may fight a repeal, but I think any Democrat who has to run for re-election in 2012 (which includes all of the Representatives and a good number of Senators) will be likely to vote the way the electorate wants… and the electorate wants Obamacare to be repealed.
If our current Republican leaders had any guts (or brains), they would call for a vote to repeal Obamacare before the election. Let’s force these DINO democrats to prove how they really feel about Obamacare. We know these people will lie to get elected. But why not expose their lies before the election instead of waiting until afterward?
That’s a good point and would make a great question from a constituent to any congressman who is running away from the bill. I’d love to see a townhall where this question is raised.
Papa Louie
I guess we had a similar thought at the same time. Let’s see if these congressmen have the courage of their convictions.
Gutless punks. Who do they think they are-John McCain?
I’d just love to see ANY demonRAT hold a townhall meeting in the current environment — it ain’t gonna happen, they are all allergic to tar and feathers!
In the West we call them Neck Tie Parties/lynchings/thinning the herd
Oh sure, first you want a townhall, now you want convictions!
The only convictions a demonRAT is likely to have is for several counts of lying, stealing, cheating, “and the beat goes on, la de dah-de dah! and the beat goes on!”
What a shocker … According to Rasmussen today, repeal poll numbers now reached all time high.
They are allergic to hemp too — unless it is being smoked!
There’s a potential for some fantastic political theatre here. If some of the Dems who are now distancing themselves from the healthcare legislation actually move on to actively supporting its repeal. . .even though they’d voted it in to begin with. .
Wow. The pundits will have a field day with that. It’s got to be no fun at all to be an elected Dem right now.
Could be useful. But I doubt Reid or Pelosi would let it come to a vote. And the downside is you might end up with some Dems somehow getting in a vote against it that does nothing to repeal it. Giving them some wiggle room when it comes to ads.
Such as when they know that have enough votes to squash something, but give the minions to Ok to vote a certain way to save their own asses.
nail49
I know, I’m a dreamer. What can I say, I still cry when Bambi’s mom gets killed.
flmom: Me too! Don’t even start on Ol’ Yeller!
Good luck getting Pelosi and Reid to bring that to a vote. I think parliamentary procedure calls this “tableing” the motion.
The best thing to do is send Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call to arrest the lot of them and throw them in the houscow (the big house, the slammer, the can, the jail house) until hanging Judge Roy Bean shows up.
flmom#29, nail49#30,
Me too on both. I cry really hard at the Budweiser 9/11 tribute commercial every time I see it.
L
RedDog said:
Make Carl Paladino a Texas Ranger as well as a US Marshall with a Letter of Mark and send him into the House and Senate.
If there are so many running from the health care bill, why aren’t there any who say it was a mistake. REPEAL the bill
And that will be “A big F-in deal”!
I haven’t seen cannbalism like this since a Uruguayan rugby team crash landed on an Andes mountain top.
(munching popcorn) More cheese Gromit!
Please can he have permission to pistol-whip Harry Reid and Henry Waxman with a Navy Colt on the way out the door? Just once.
You want waterworks, try spinning up an old 45 of Ol’Shep!
In that vote of 2012 there will be 12 seats currently held by dems plus 2 by independents…along with 10 repubs. That’s a lot of pressure headed their way, both for the dems and repubs if they wander from the conservative tidal wave sweeping the nation as of today.
I am sorry but…
ROFLMAO
This only proves you need to be a complete idiot to be a Democrat or to support them.
Funny – and YES, I mean funny – how these elected pols, who are representing “the people”, will jump ship if it will sink their political career AFTER they pass something the people didn’t farkin want in the first place. If you Dems don’t clean house after this…well…there is no hope for you.
P.S. I feel the same way about some Repugnants too so don’t even go there…
and in other news: Democrats now spend 10 times as much $ on diaper rash medication as they do on learning to stop wetting their panties.
I just follow quickly with my copy of Muskrat Ramble & I feel better straight away!
Oh oh, best not mention the double doe tag; nailed Bambi too
Would referring to our deep freezer as my Trophy Case be inappropriate at this juncture?
“Old Shep”- TEX MORTON
(name the movie)
Lisa: Imagine you’re a deer. You’re prancing around. You get thirsty. You spot a little brook. You put your little deer lips down to the clear water – BAM! A f@#$%^n’ bullet rips off part of your head! Your brains are lying on the ground in little bloody pieces. Now I ask you, do you give a @#$% what kind of pants the son-of-a-@#$%^ who shot you was wearing?!
This is a safe strategy. They can run against it knowing full well if elected and the Dems maintain a majority Obamacare will never be repealed nor unfunded.
Nice strategy.
Blood… boiling… liver ruptures… eyes burning… sphincter tight… pressure… on… skull… too much… can’t…. maintain…. consciousness…. tell mom… I love her… aaaaaaakkkk
I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a Disney production given the use of symbols rather than letters in the conversation!
I would like to use one of my life-lines. I would like to call Mrs Nail49 as she knows movies cold — especially the older ones!
This is almost getting to be HILARIOUS!!! It is almost like trying to find someone who voted for O-BOZO, there just isn’t anyone there… Hell, now that the PIPER must be paid, no one in the CONGRESS voted for OBAMACARE… Or as they say now, if I would have known then, what I know now, I would have voted NO!!! Yeah, RIIIGGGHHHT!!!
My Cousin Vinny!
Final Answer!
Wait, didn’t Bill Clinton tell the Dems they had to pass ObamaCare because the Dems failure to pass HillaryCare was the cause of the 1994 Republican takeover of congress? Fools. I always new Dems were delusional but their lunacy on this issue is raising it to a whole new level. Next thing you know they will convince themselves if they nominate Hillary in 2012 the country will lover her (and them) again.
Heh! They claim there is a division in the Republican ranks. What do they call this? I hope these democrats are not trying to sell themselves as conservatives. Too huge a leap! Pretending to be blue-dog dems then voting with Pelosi and Reid all the way proved they are lousy actors.
Nobody should be taken in again with words. Let’s see what they do in the interim – between now and January 1st!
I see your Old Yeller and raise you a Black Beauty [with Liz Taylor, of course]. Hah!
What happened to the trolls around here calling posters morons and idiots for not agreeing that Obamacare was the only way health care costs were going to come down and about how it was deficit neutral? All after people who live in reality said, no way this is not going to cost a bundle. Stupidity, how did it become the norm in this country?
Those dems (dims) have one foot in their mouths and just shot themselves in the other one.
Will ObummerCare cover those conditions?
I wonder, too, how does Obummer feel about being thrown under the bus for a change?
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And the best part–no need to listen to their voices. Just use the Internet to list their votes on Comrade Obama’s (PBUH) agenda bills.
***
And use their votes against them in each state’s general election. So simple even a (GOP!) caveman can do it!
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They can lie and they can run–but they can’t hide the truth of their votes. Lipstick on the pig isn’t going to mask the smell of failure and corruption.
***
John Bibb
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I’d figured by now someone with more free time than me, has made a list of those who voted for the O’care along with any “perks” they got or will get.
I’m not saying that a politician got bribed.
….I’m just sayin’
Professor Terguson: Good answer. Good answer. I like the way you think. I’m gonna be watching you.
Here’s a generic add that should be ran nation wide:
“The Obama health care bill that no one wanted, was passed without any republicans voting for it. The only ones who voted for it was democrats.I guess they think that you ,the voters, are really stupid.On Nov. 2 show them that you can’t be fooled”
…with follow-on questions like,
Why did they not read the bill first?
Why did they not let the American people know what was in the bill first?
Will all 31 of these nitwits running for re-election now pledge to repeal that mess?
Rangel…Boxer…Reid… Shall I continue? Yes, yes they can and are fooled (and idiots too).
Let it be remembered that THIS VOTE became
the death of the Democrat[ic Socialist] Party.
And let it be remembered that in order to achieve that cloture vote,
the Democrat[ic Socialists]s had to:
1) Steal an election in order to turn the loser, Al Franken, into a seated Senator to become the 60th vote.
and
2) Change election law in MA after Teddy Kennedy’s death, so they could pick a Democratic replacement and seat him quickly in order to once again become the 60th vote for cloture. If they had not changed that law, they would not have reached 60 votes, because Scott Brown would not have voted for cloture.
Back to school?
Jeri Askins, the Democratic candidate for governor in Oklahoma, is running against Obama and Washington, D.C. She claims to be an “Oklahoma Conservative.”
The truth? Not so much.
ECS
Hope is not a plan; not all change is good. WE are the civilian national security force! It’s your record in its entirety, Jari, that determines if you are Conservative,…or not. The resistance is here; the resistance is NOW. RESIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ECS
“Jari Askins…” Sheesh.
ECS
Obamacare free health care for all…just remember you get what you pay for.