I read 25 comments about the ACA from both parties and decided to have some fun with them. I selected my favorites and then offered suggestions or comments. All meant for Friday afternoon fun...please chime in with your own suggestions.
1) "I see it as Obama is threatening to shut the government down unless we fund Obamacare". Rubio. Slow down, focus, stay on task and have a sip of water Senator. Didn't you say the exact opposite thing the other day?
2) "The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of [President Barack] Obama’s 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil." — Sarah Palin, Aug. 2009. You are completely right Sarah. The great thing is nobody ever said you would have to or anything like it.
3)"If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly." — Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) on the floor of the House, Sept. 2009. The Republicans hate this guy.
4) "I don't want to pay for a sex-change operation. ... I like being a boy." — Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) on whether the law would mandate coverage of sex changes, April 2013. You are a grown boy now Paul. You can go ahead and have the operation.
5) "Everybody has to buy food sooner or later, so you define the market as food. Therefore, everybody is in the market. Therefore, you can make people buy broccoli.” Justice Antonin Scalia, March 2012. I know people who wish they had the money to buy broccoli. Your honor's logic is not flawless. Plus, I like broccoli.
6)"If Obamacare had been fully implemented when I caught cancer, I’d be dead.” GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, Aug. 2011. That makes so much sense Herman. What proof do you have?
7)"I have no problem with folks saying, 'Obama cares.' I do care. If the other side wants to be the folks that don't care, that's fine with me.” President Barack Obama, responding to the Republicans’ use of the term Obamacare, Aug. 2011. The Republicans hate this guy too!
8)American freedom and liberty have taken a hard blow today.” — Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) following the Supreme Court decision on Obamacare and the Commerce Clause, June 2012. From who Steve? 30,000,000 130 lb. drug runners that love melons? WTF?
9) "It isn’t far-fetched to think that the president of the United States could say, 'We need to save health care expenses — the federal government will only pay for one baby to be born in the hospital per family or two babies to be born per family. That could happen.'”Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), March 2012. Get together with Sarah. You two will completely confuse each other. Monkeys just flew out of my dog's butt. That could happen.
10) They're the same f----ing bill. [Romney] just can't have his cake and eat it too. … He can try to draw distinctions and stuff, but he's just lying.” MIT health care expert Jonathan Gruber on Romneycare versus Obamacare, Nov. 2011. Sure he can! He is King Mitt!
11) "If I’m the godfather of this thing, then it gives me the right to kill it." — GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, March 2012.Actually Mittens you can't.You are not a king, you are a businessman. You are not even a governor now.
12) "I just see a huge train wreck coming down.” Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), April 2013. Well get out of the way!
13) The Affordable Care Act is "barreling down on us like a jet landing in San Francisco. It's it should make people really concerned." New Hampshire state Sen. Andy Sanborn, a Republican following the plane crash at San Francisco International Airport, July 2013. Well, get out of the way!
14) "It will be his Waterloo, It will break him." Jim DeMint.So what do you do for work nowadays Jim?
OK-I am leaving it at that. This was fun. I laughed at my goofy responses and the goofy quotes. Have a nice weekend.