Pelosi to GOP on ObamaCare replacement: "You break it, you own it"

[bigtree]

The Hill ‏@thehill 8m8 minutes ago
Pelosi to GOP on ObamaCare replacement: "You break it, you own it" http://hill.cm/y2wGZkv

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Monday that the ball is in the GOP's court when it comes to replacing ObamaCare, according to reports.

"The ball is in their court," Pelosi said during a Democratic conference call on Monday, according to ABC’s Rick Klein. "You break it, you own it."

Pelosi also slammed the GOP for seeking to repeal and delay parts of ObamaCare while they come up with a replacement, calling the effort an “act of cowardice.”

“The repeal and delay is an act of cowardice on the part of the Republicans,” Pelosi said, according to another reporter. “This repeal and delay, it doesn't even have alliteration. It has nothing."

read: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/312396-pelosi-ball-is-in-gop-court-on-obamacare-replacement

[LenaBaby61]

1. Pelosi to GOP on ObamaCare replacement: "You break it, you own it."

No they won't.

You'll have some people who'll see the light, and know that thuglicans are to blame for it ...but not enough.

All thuglicans have to do is blame Dems & Pres. Obama for them not having or losing their health insurance (thuglicans know how to work the media much better than Dems). Then the so-called liberal news media that never existed gets involved and piggy-backs on the thuglicans "Blame Dems & Pres. Obama" meme, and the deplorables will eat it up.

[bigtree]

3. they can blame Obama for the consequences of their own actions

...and we can call bullshit on that.

[AC_Mem]

27. People might want to recall

That the premise of the ACA was a GOP plan. They hate it and want to destroy it because it was done under President Obama.

For once in their life I wish they would consider the welfare of Americans, but that's a lost hope.

Disgusted,
annette

[atreides1]

31. They are considering the welfare of Americans!

Those Americans who are part of the 1%, like the Kochs and those that fund ALEC!

[Midnight Writer]

2. We need to make sure all of our citizens know who is destroying their benefits

Polls indicate that a lot of folk do not realize that the Medicaid expansion, the Black Lung Benefits, the elimination of the cap on life time benefits, the pre-existing conditions protection, the allowance of older children on family plans, the "best practices" standards for hospitals and doctors, are all part of Obamacare.

When they lose these benefits, it is the duty of our party to hold the Republican Party accountable.

We need to make this loud and clear, through protests, paid ads, public announcements.

Every Democrat in every media appearance should include this info.

We should hear more about the death of Obamacare than we heard the word Benghazi over the last four years.

[pangaia]

15. They also need to be taught that the ACA is the SAME THING as Obamacare.

How many times did we hear, " I hate Obamacare, but keep your hand off the ACA!"

Bunch of dumb fucks.

[DK504]

29. The media has not had any major interviews about the real situation with Congress

or with the Orange-olini. Where is Nancy? Schumer? Ellison? Only Adam Schiff is on the TV machine. How can the media continue to get away with this refusal to even ask the most basic questions? How the hell do we take it back?

[Cosmocat]

4. M A K E T H E M O W N I T

EVERY Dem, every last one, needs to take this tact.

[yeoman6987]

5. No repug voted for it

I thought that would hurt them. I thought wrong. They are teflon.

[Kingofalldems]

18. What the hell does that have to do with the thread?

[rgbecker]

6. Once GOP "repeals" Obamacare, we are back to state by state

death from no insurance coverage. I think Massachusetts will simply return to the pre Obamacare "Romneycare" and folks will pretty much get along. The Redstates is where the dying will increase among the poor and underemployed.

It will be up to the democrats to make sure the Trump voters know what is going on, and why the ambulance is driving in circles rather than getting them to the hospital.

[DonCoquixote]

12. Florida will become a death trap

after all, more than twice elected Rick Scott a.k.a. figure in one of the greatest Medicaid scandals there was to the tune of several hundred million. Granted next Scott is on his way out and even the GOP knows that seniors do vote. However the churches, the talk radio, and the other villains of the tea party/trump party will do their best to make sure that everyone thinks "they are talking about me!"

[lastlib]

21. We're all back on GOPeeDon'tCare.

[DonCoquixote]

7. Nancy, I would love to believe you

but your friends in the GOP know full well the way it comes to offering active resistance to them you and your friends are not going to do squat. For one thing the changes that is the fact that you do respond when we break out the pitchforks and torches. Not that you have not deserved that for years, especially as you would often leave us and Obama out to dry. Sorry, it will take more than just wagging fingers, because as much as we admittedly don't want to go ahead and deny the GOP 1 inch of rope to hang themselves with we realize that won't work as well unless the GOP is forced to actively fight for what it wants. You folks are supposed to be the ones making sure the GOP has to fight for every gasp of air, for every half inch. In short it is your job to give Trump at least as hard a time as you helped allow the GOP to give Pres. Obama. As we have not seen a lot of that from you, we are not holding our breath, so either get to doing what you're supposed to be doing for the past 10 years, when you told Mr. Bush that on "impeachment was off the table", what do not be surprised if you find yourself trampled by a stampede of angry liberal voters will be carrying someone to your throne.

One note, if you actually were to act as a liberal gadfly to Trump, I would be the first to lay the finest gifts at your altar; but the fact is I have not seen a lot of that, and you have not given me much reason to believe that you would. I dare, beg and yes challenge you to prove me wrong.

[SaschaHM]

9. Nancy Pelosi left Obama out to dry and helped republicans?

That's rich considering how she practically had blue dogs walk to their deaths to pass Obama's legislation while she was still speaker. And she's a queen because? She's a woman?

[DonCoquixote]

10. would you rather I've used a more gender-neutral term

for someone used to the excesses of power? Fine I will use martinet, as that is somewhat gender-neutral. And please,, the minute she said impeachment was off the table she knew that Obama lost 80% of the leverage he had against the Republicans.

[SaschaHM]

14. What?

That makes no sense at all. You are saying that by saying she wouldn't impeach GWBush, President-Elect/Sen. Obama lost leverage before even coming into office. What? That's not how leverage work. Obama couldn't suddenly pull the impeachment card to get his agenda passed. Please tell me how Nancy Pelosi threatening to impeach GWBush helps the incoming Democratic President at all.

[bdamomma]

8. yea they will break it and never own it

they would rather have people go without.

[edhopper]

11. THEY....

DON"T....CARE!!!

[TonyPDX]

13. Unfortunately, they don't experience shame like normal citizens.

[TrollBuster9090]

16. That'll be the second time they've heard that, but I doubt they've learned anything

[fantase56]

17. And how many will die Nancy,

before we can collect on that debt? The GOP has never owned anything and the Dem's have never held them responsible. And we just keep getting fucked.

[Dream Girl]

19. Nancy is so, so tough

As my late dad would say, full of "big talk"

[bucolic_frolic]

20. Ironically, "Obamacare"

was supposed to be a GOP derisive term for the ACA yet millions have
come to know and see its great benefits, and now use the term
with hope and affection. Even if the GOP manages to fix the unpopular
parts, ends it, replaces it - the public knows the party and the President
that fought for universal health care - and the one that didn't and wanted
to end it.

[bucolic_frolic]

32. Maybe they'll repeal subsidies

and force everyone to pay full insurance premiums - personal
responsibility crowd that they are

Those who can't pay - debtor's prison, garnishment of Social Security,
pensions, assets, send the repo man for your car

Charles Dickens' Britain coming to America

[elmac]

22. Sociopaths love to break things

and have not a care in the world who might be hurt by it, They will be glad to own it.

[avebury]

23. Time to bring back Grandma being thrown over the

cliff ad. Death Panel - brought to yuo by Trump and the GOP.

[spanone]

24. i've noticed the media starting to call it 'repeal and delay' ...just to get it in the mainstream

just like they did 'Obamacare'

just like bu$h in iraq, they want to break it.

[lpbk2713]

25. The MSM will bail them out.

They always have.

[TheFrenchRazor]

26. a lot of people are going to be screwed if they repeal ACA; i'm still in denial. nt

[CousinIT]

28. Many who voted for Trump didn't believe GOP would take away Obamacare.

Or so I've read. WTF have the sonsabitches been trying to do since it was passed?

NEVER. BEFORE. have legislators just dumped any program that MILLIONS of Americans rely on. But they ARE GOING TO NOW: Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act. ALL of it.

They are going to take healthcare away from ALL of America. That's their goal.

I read a KOS article where some people who voted for him just "didn't believe" they'd do it. Some of them didn't even KNOW that what they signed up for in the marketplaces WAS Obamacare (their Republican governor called it something else and told them it wasn't).

I'm sorry but HOW. STUPID. ARE. THESE. PEOPLE.?

NOW they're worried they're going to lose their healthcare. Well you're damn skippy ALL of us will, thanks the utter STUPIDITY of the minority in this idiot ass country.

[Eliot Rosewater]

30. They will repeal, suffer no political consequence, then go after Medicare, Medicaid and Soc Sec

Each step of the way they will say this has to be done, not enough money and the blame is on the liberals and Obama and every step of the way their base will buy it.

Say goodbye to everything.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

33. K&R