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The 10 Most Hilariously Unhinged Right-Wing Reactions t... - 6/29/2012 7:02:48 PM   
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When Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker beat back a recall effort, we learned that conservatives aren't exactly gracious in victory. On Thursday, when Chief Justice John Roberts joined the Supreme Court's moderate bloc to uphold ObamaCare, we discovered that the Right is nothing less than unhinged in defeat.

The remarkable thing about the heated debates about the law over the last three years is just how modest these reforms really are, especially when one considers how screwed up our healthcare system was to begin with.

The reality is that there is no "government takeover" underway. Some lower-middle-class families are going to get some subsidies to buy insurance, maybe ten million or so more poor people will be eligible for Medicaid. Insurers will get some new regulations that are popular even among Republicans.

And with Thursday's ruling, the government can no longer mandate that you carry insurance, it can only levy a small tax on those who don't. The real-world impact of that? Only an estimated 1 percent of the population will face the tax – a tax that maxes out at 1 percent -- and it may not even be enforceable!

But for the Right, a moderate expansion of health coverage and some new insurance regulations are, simply put, the worst things that ever happened. How bad is it? Well imagine that in the midst of the Holocaust, a meteor crashed to earth, destroying the entire planet. And as planet Earth exploded, it opened up a tear in the space-time continuum that swallowed up the entire galaxy. Thursday's ruling was, apparently, almost that bad.

For your reading pleasure, we've collected some of the most hilariously over-the-top freakouts we've seen. Enjoy!

http://www.alternet.org/story/156090/the_10_most_hilariously_unhinged_right-wing_reactions_to_the_obamacare_ruling?page=entire

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RE: The 10 Most Hilariously Unhinged Right-Wing Reactio... - 6/29/2012 7:42:05 PM   
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"Women want to make their own decisions when it comes to their health care, with the support of their families and their doctors," said Penny Nance, president of Concerned Women for America, a conservative, anti-abortion women's advocacy group. "It's preposterous to suggest the government would do a better job at deciding what is best for us and our loved ones."

In March, CWA rejoiced over Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's decision to sign a controversial bill that forces women to undergo medically unnecessary, sometimes intrusive ultrasound procedures before they can receive abortion care. Planned Parenthood, at the time, called the bill "an outrageous example of government overreach into the doctor-patient relationship."

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), who sponsored a mandatory ultrasound bill of her own last year, wrote in a Washington Times op-ed on Thursday that Democrats belong to "a party that believes that government knows what is best for your health care" and "comes between you and your doctor," while Republicans are the ones who "will repeal this massive intrusion on the freedom of Americans and allow us to make our own health care decisions."

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), who infamously signed an executive order mandating human papillomavirus vaccines for young girls and a law mandating that women wait 24 hours before receiving an abortion, said of Obamacare on Thursday: “Americans have made clear their overwhelming opposition to its convoluted, burdensome and overreaching mandates.”

The irony of Republicans using this language to bash Obamacare is not lost on progressive women's rights groups.

"It's rich that anti-choice groups and politicians are suddenly concerned with medical privacy," a spokeswoman for NARAL Pro-Choice America said in an email to HuffPost on Friday. "That sounds pretty pro-choice to us."

"If anti-choice politicians and groups are really concerned about government intrusion into health care, they might want to reconsider their own agenda, which would put a politician into every woman's doctor's office, bedroom, and medicine chest."

Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women, said Republicans are latching onto pro-choice arguments because they recognize that that's what women want to hear.

"It's the height of hypocrisy coming from that crowd, but it doesn't surprise me. They don't have any ideas of their own," she told HuffPost. "I guess they've read the polls and they know that's exactly what women want -- autonomy over their own bodies. Some of these Republicans are so intellectually bankrupt that the best they can do is try to use the language of respect for women, while deeply disrespecting virtually every woman in this country."

Bachmann, Perry and the Concerned Women for America did not respond to requests for comment on the accusations of hypocrisy.

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RE: The 10 Most Hilariously Unhinged Right-Wing Reactio... - 6/29/2012 8:15:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		This is more or less a direct copy of something I posted elsewhere. It does seem relevant. The point is that all the contrived warnings of doom and gloom one hears from opponents of ACA have been made before in Australia during the 1980s. It's all been said before and none of it proved true. Experience here showed the conservative predictions to be nothing more that a desperate scare campaign composed of pure fiction and fantasy.

It might interest people to know that prior to the introduction of Medicare here in the early 80s, there was a contentious debate about the merits of a universal health care system, which more or less mirrors the current debate in the US over ACA.

Our conservatives went feral, opposing Medicare tooth and nail. They claimed that the sky was going to fall in, doctors would desert the system en masse, we can't afford it, cost will go through the roof, it will force tax increases to pay for it, it removes freedom, it's creeping socialism .. (sounds familiar???? .... all the arguments currently being advanced by the Right in the USA). They promised to abolish it if returned to government, just like Mittikens has done.

Guess what? None of that happened. Medicare was introduced more or less smoothly and was such a great success that the Party that introduced Medicare was rewarded by a grateful electorate by being returned to power for a generation. There were no related tax increases, none of the dire predictions by the conservatives came true. The conservatives soon abandoned their promise to rescind it, realising that it was electoral death. Within a few years, Medicare was (and still is) an established fact of life in Australia, with all major parties committed to its retention. Medicare retains a very high degree of popularity and trust in the electorate.

My guess is that pretty much the same will happen in the US.

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RE: The 10 Most Hilariously Unhinged Right-Wing Reactio... - 6/29/2012 8:28:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yes I read that earlier :) and agree, altho being from the UK All I have ever known is universal care.
What has made me mention the above is all the "there there you feminazi" there is no war on women, you are imagining it, the bills will never get thru, Roe vs Wade will never be overturned, all your worry is just your hormones" type of responses from the right, but here they are crying that now the government will mandate this and tax that, "biggest tax increase in the history of the world" et al, and order us to do this and order us to do that, and the article just struck a chord with me.
And the bills were real not fiction, like they are claiming will happen.


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RE: The 10 Most Hilariously Unhinged Right-Wing Reactio... - 6/29/2012 8:48:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yup. Whatever their other demerits (and there's far too many of them to list here) it has to conceded that the looney Right does an excellent line in hyperbole and doom'n'gloom predictions.

I suspect they have been raised on too many fire'n'brimstone fundamentalist preachers - Terry Jones, WBC and the like - and they mistake this for genuine grown-up debate.

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