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Obamacare Turns 1 Today; Still An Unpopular Youngster

By Doug Powers • March 23, 2011 04:34 PM

**Written by Doug Powers

**Note: Every time I use the term “Obamacare” I have to put a quarter in Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s health care blasphemy jar, but since today’s a special occasion, it’ll be well worth it.

Today is the birthday of something that the stork would have delivered if he wouldn’t have died trying to lift it. Ultimately, Obamacare — more than 2,000 pages of it — was born breach with the cord wrapped around taxpayers’ necks after Democrats induced labor without caring enough to at least give America an epidural first.

Obamacare is still young, but it matured quickly. Almost immediately after being born it uttered its first word — “waiver” — and hasn’t stopped since. But that doesn’t seem to have helped increase its popularity:

(CNN) – One year after President Barack Obama signed the health care reform bill into law, a new national poll indicates that attitudes toward the plan have not budged.

According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday, on the one year anniversary of the signing of the law, a majority continue to oppose the measure, but some of the opposition is from Americans who think the law is not liberal enough.

Thirty-seven percent of Americans support the measure, with 59 percent opposed. That’s basically unchanged from last March, when 39 percent supported the law and 59 percent opposed the measure.

According to the poll, 13 percent of the 59 percent opposed to the Obamacare law are against it because it isn’t liberal enough. Strange as it may seem, many who hold this opinion are the same people who have already obtained a waiver from the more conservative version.

This overall lack of popularity has remained steady for the first year of Obamacare’s life, and it’s only bound to get worse once the brunt of the law kicks in, which doesn’t happen until 2014. As the car salesman told Clark Griswold in National Lampoon’s Vacation, “You think you hate it now, but wait’ll you drive it!”

Update: The First Lady marked the one year mark of Obamacare by saying that thanks to the law, parents will finally be able to know when their kids are getting fat. Well, she didn’t put it exactly that way, but nearly.

Update II: New NRSC ad: Let’s make the first anniversary the last.

**Written by Doug Powers

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#101

On March 24th, 2011 at 11:18 pm, OK_Loyalist said:

On March 24th, 2011 at 10:27 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

While or is it whilst (?) all you say may be correct, split the R jersey right now and we got Barry 4 more years, is it worth that ?
#102

On March 25th, 2011 at 7:37 am, jackblack said:

I’m not sure it can be stopped within the current two-party system.

It can’t. Lets stop kidding ourselves.
So maybe Trump is an answer?? He just might turn all the insiders on their ears.

While or is it whilst (?) all you say may be correct, split the R jersey right now and we got Barry 4 more years, is it worth that ?

I think your answer lies in your question….

split the R jersey right now

Right now is not the time. But I think 2016 will be ripe for the picking.
GET THE SENATE NOW!
#103

On March 25th, 2011 at 8:08 am, Virginia Patriot said:

While or is it whilst (?) all you say may be correct, split the R jersey right now and we got Barry 4 more years, is it worth that ?

We shouldn’t have had Barry at all. I started posting here and at TownHall and elsewhere in 2006 to try to prevent the RNC from sticking us with McCain. Didn’t work. I will never believe he was the choice of Republican voters. The primaries were rigged. They will be again.

Watch what happens.
Romneycare vs Obamacare.
#104

On March 25th, 2011 at 8:36 am, Virginia Patriot said:

We will not be allowed to vote for anyone who will save the country from the two-headed monster unless we lose our fear of voting without nose-holding
#105

On March 26th, 2011 at 8:17 pm, floridaobserver said:

Uh, 3rd party candidate…Ross Perot. Lots of money and lots of pie charts (which people can understand). Was he a spoiler because he didn’t like GHWB? Never heard from him again after the election.

I like Herman Cain, too. And Alan West (for president someday). And Marco Rubio (same). There is hope.

I do not want to vote for Romney or Gingrich or any other “politician”, if you know what I mean.
#106

On April 5th, 2011 at 12:44 am, BK said:

And this youngster keeps dropping turds in its diaper (the taxpayer)