Comment Re:President Lawnchair Pretending to be Liberal (Score 1) 825
Obama did not propose this law. Congress wrote it and he signed it, but he did not propose it.
Are you kidding?
No. I am absolutely serious. He did not propose it.
"Passing the ACA" is considered one of the great accomplishments of this administration by its proponents.
Obama was left with no other choice than to embrace this steaming pile of failure. He knew that there was absolutely no chance of any other bill relating in the least to health care ever making it to his desk again. He either signed this conservative piece of garbage into law or went down in history as the guy who campaigned for health care reform and then subsequently vetoed a health care bill.
Trying to split hairs over whether he "proposed it" is irrelevant.
This is not in any way splitting hairs. The person i replied to falsely claimed that it was proposed by Obama. The fact that he signed it does not mean he proposed it. The fact that - by way of fox news et al - it came to be associated with his name also does not mean he proposed it.
By your same logic WWII was caused by FDR because he was president when we entered it.
Actually, it's worse than that. It is the largest corporate handout in the history of government.
Yes, and it was endorsed, passed, signed, and implemented by President Obama and the Democrats, who evidently are in the pocket of big corporations.
I noticed you neglected to use the term "written". Perhaps you at least are aware of the contribution to writing that was made by the republicans, who subsequently protested against it only out of their desire to do everything possible to tarnish the legacy of the democrat at 1600 Pennsylvania?
That said, everyone in DC (with the sole exception of Bernie Sanders) is owned by the insurance industry. it just so happened that at this time the bailout was able to pass without republicans voting for it. If they were needed then the industry would have forced them to vote for it as well.