Democratic Senate candidate Bob Kerrey said Thursday that he hates the employer mandate in the Affordable Care Act and that his own businesses might drop employee insurance and pay the federal fine for doing so if the mandate goes into effect in 2014.
Kerrey said wealthy Americans pay their fair share in taxes. And he said President Barack Obama made a big mistake by not following the recommendations of his own bipartisan budget deficit commission.
“I hate the employer mandate,” Kerrey said. “I think it’s going to have a counterproductive impact. We don’t have any (insured employee) that costs us less than $7,000 (a year), and the fine’s $2,000. We’ll dump ’em off. We won’t call it dumping, we’ll say ... ‘Go get it from the exchange.’”
He said the employer mandate “will accelerate an already breaking-down employer-based system.” That portion of the law should be repealed, he said.
Sen. Kerry Dares GOP to Make Obamacare Election Issue
Sen. John Kerry is daring Republicans to make Obamacare an issue in the presidential campaign, because he believes most Americans want affordable healthcare — a challenge GOP strategists say may backfire on the Massachusetts Democrat as the election year progresses.
The Boston Herald reported Tuesday that “a tough-talking” Kerry laid down his challenge by asserting the issue of providing affordable healthcare “is not complicated” for most voters.
“I want this debate about healthcare in this election,” he said. “Because I think when Americans learn the difference between the benefit of having coverage and how it lowers costs, it’s like insuring your house.
“This is not complicated,” he continued. “It’s made complicated by politicians who pursue an ideological agenda, which is why I’m glad Mitt Romney, when he was here [as governor of Massachusetts], passed healthcare. I’m sorry today he’s running away from it, but this is going to be a great debate.”
Oh, wait this is from that bastion of liberal thought, "Newsmax"... rofllol rofllol
(The rest of the article is nothing more than the usual TeaPublican drivel about, "Oh yeah? Well, yo' momma wears combat boots...and bring it on..." You can't make this stuff up.
Democracy4Sale wrote: Yeah, I can see that Kerry is against it...
Oh, wait this is from that bastion of liberal thought, "Newsmax"... rofllol rofllol
(The rest of the article is nothing more than the usual TeaPublican drivel about, "Oh yeah? Well, yo' momma wears combat boots...and bring it on..." You can't make this stuff up.
Oh wait... bird brain... the article you link to is from Tuesday, 27 Mar 2012 12:29... he's done a complete flip-flop. You can make this stuff up... especially if you don't pay attention. Lady Jazzer falls flat on her face again.
Democracy4Sale wrote: Oops.. my bad... But since I don't read TLGBTwit's posts, it was an easy mistake...
Proving once and for all that you couldn't care less what others have to say as long as you get a chance to spew your opinion out it's all good - no matter how irrelevant it is to the topic.
Keep doin what you're doin, and keep being considered a liberal cartoon.
"Whatever you are, be a good one." ~ Abraham Lincoln
Well imagine my surprise... Another Karl Rove "out-of-context-editing" Special. (Kind of reminds me of the Romney ad that uses the phrase "If we talk about the economy we'll lose"...Which they conveniently--and deliberately--leave out the prefacing "The McCain campaign says: ____")
Well, shucks...Who knew?
Karl Rove Attack Ad Is a Complete Lie, May Cross Legal Boundary Video Shows Kerrey Was Saying the EXACT Opposite of What Ad Claims
OMAHA –A new TV ad by the Karl Rove group “American Crossroads” takes a few words out of context to suggest Bob Kerrey was saying the exact opposite of what he was actually saying.
“There are attack ads that spin, and there are attack ads that deceptively edit in a way to suggest something that is entirely false,” said Paul Johnson, Kerrey Campaign Manager. “This ad falls in the latter category. These attacks may be the norm for Karl Rove and his Texas backers. But this style of sleaziness is unparalleled in Nebraska politics.”
The ad uses a quote from a Kerrey speech saying “damn the consequences, I’m going to vote yes.” Kerrey was actually telling supporters of cap and trade that the arguments for legislation had not been adequately made. In other words, POTENTIAL SUPPORTERS would not say “damn the consequences, I’m going to vote yes.”
In the speech, Kerrey says: “So unless, in my view, it is framed in that kind of moral context it’s very difficult to get into the – almost the economic development argument that you can create more jobs than are likely to be destroyed. I happen to believe that you can with the right investment strategy but I don’t think it rings the bell sufficiently – particularly given the current economic conditions – to get people finally to say, “Damn the consequences, I’m going to vote ‘yes’.”
Strikingly absent from the ad is a citation in the portion using the Kerrey quote. There are citations in every part of the ad except the quoted portion, clearly showing American Crossroads was trying to keep from getting caught.
Here is a link to the relevant portion of Kerrey’s speech:
Dang... Imagine my surprise.... So, yes, this is primarily about the cap-and-trade policies, but leave it to Karl Rove and his merry band of hatchet-job artists to drag Obamacare into it as well...
Narrator: Kerrey’s for ObamaCare and he lobbied for Obama’s job-killing energy tax, urging Senators to say…
Kerrey (out of context): Damn the consequences, I’m going to vote ‘yes’.
"Kerrey was never really happy with ObamaCare, because it didn’t go far enough! Kerrey is a single-payer guy. Get rid of insurance companies. A full-on government run health care plan. Post office style."
Amen....
So, if Rove and the rest of his attack-machine will pull an O'Keefe on him for cap-and-trade, I have no doubt they did it on Obamacare too...
BUSTED! "They can't win if they don't cheat..." -- TPP
