in the Obamacare fight, the public option was included in the bill and ready to be passed. It wasn't Republicans who actually killed it, sure they all voted against all of Obamacare. It was a former Democratic Senator who ran as an Independent and won, who killed the public option, it was Joe Lieberman. Joe Lieberman's vote against the public option killed it.
President Obama was no liberal president. He suggested the Sequester when Republicans were threatening to not raise the debt ceiling because they were so concerned about our national debt back in 2011-2013. President Obama proposed the Sequester, across the board cuts. It was so radical that Congress would have to come up with another way to reduce our deficit. A super-committee was created to avoid the Sequester and find other ways to reduce the debt. There were people like Patty Murray, John Kerry, Chris Van Hollen, and Jim Clyburn on that super-committee. They failed to come up with a solution so the dreaded Sequester was enacted in 2013 and it is effect still today. Want to know one of the items that is cut 2% every year because of the Sequester, reimbursements to Medicare doctors. Obama's strategy in proposing the Sequester is hurting plain old Medicare.
Don't even ask me about president Obama proposing chained CPI which would have given Republicans a foot in the door to dismantle Social Security.
I wonder if any of those freshmen members of Congress asked president Obama about the Sequester? Did they ask him about reimbursements to Medicare doctors? Did they ask him why he offered up chained CPI?
Don't get me wrong, we would be in much, much worse shape were Obama not elected president, many more people would have died early deaths, but, we can do better, Yes We Can.
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