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Money doesn't talk, it swears. October 9, 2013 8:25 pm ER

GOP losing powerful allies in hostage crises

Appropriate Variety Headlines:

KOCH BROTHERS BACKPEDAL, BAIL
HERITAGE HASTILY HIKES
FREEDOMWORKS FADE FAST

From TCinLA, one of the Commenters

Oct 2008: “You’ll never get elected and pass healthcare.”
Nov 2008: “We’ll never let you pass healthcare.”
Jan 2009: “We’re gonna shout you down every time you try to pass healthcare.”
July 2009: “We’ll fight to death every attempt you make to pass healthcare.”
Dec 2009: “We will destroy you if you even consider passing healthcare.”
March 2010: “We can’t believe you just passed healthcare.”
April 2010: “We are going to overturn healthcare.”
Sept 2010: “We are going to repeal healthcare.”
Jan 2011: “We are going to destroy healthcare.”
Feb 2012: “We’re gonna elect a candidate who’ll revoke healthcare NOW.”
June 2012: “We’ll go to the Supreme Court, and they will overturn healthcare.”
Aug 2012: “American people’ll never re-elect you-they don’t want healthcare.”
Oct 2012: “We can’t wait to win the election and explode healthcare.”
Nov 2012: “We can’t believe you got re-elected & we can’t repeal healthcare.”
Feb 2013: “We’re still going to vote to obliterate healthcare.”
June 2013: “We can’t believe the Supreme Court just upheld healthcare.”
July 2013: “We’re going to vote like 35 more times to erase healthcare.”
Sept 2013: “We are going to leverage a government shutdown into defunding, destroying, obliterating, overturning, repealing, dismantling, erasing and ripping apart healthcare.”
Oct 2013: “WHY AREN’T YOU NEGOTIATING???”

  • Remember the Fred MacMurray character in The Caine Mutiny? by ER 2013-10-09 20:46:43
    • Harry Reid was lying about the Koch Brothers "conspiracy" in his recent speech. by TB 2013-10-09 21:17:34
      • If he never brought up the issue, he certainly bankrolled groups and pols that are fighting hard to end either ACA or our economy. by alcaray 2013-10-10 00:42:14
        • The Daddy Warbucks crowd never wanted a credit crisis, or a long term shutdown. by ER 2013-10-10 05:24:19
        • That sure sounds like MacMurray's ass-covering court martial testimony to me... by ER 2013-10-09 22:15:56

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