Monday, November 18, 2013

Chicago Tribune Calls For Full Repeal of ObamaCare

When you've lost the liberal Chicago Tribune, which is Obama, Jarrett, Emmanuel and Axelrod's hometown newspaper, your benchmark social program is in big, big trouble.

The Trib published an editorial this weekend which said in part:
We understand why the president and leaders of his party want to rescue whatever they can of Obamacare. On their watch, official Washington has blown the launch of a new entitlement program ... under the schedule they alone set in early 2010.
What we don't understand is their reluctance to give that failure more than lip service. Many of the Americans who heard their president say Thursday that "we fumbled the rollout of this health care law" would have been pleased to hear him add: So we're admitting it. This law is a bust. We're starting over.
Republicans, if they are smart (and that's a big if) will stand back and watch the inevitable collapse.

Full editorial here.

23 comments:

Shouting Thomas said...

That's shocking!

Shouting Thomas said...

Repeal is the only sensible thing to do.

It's a complete botch.

bagoh20 said...

The problem is that being on the left means never having to say you're sorry or wrong. I'll be blown away if that doesn't hold through this too.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

The editorial says to do it right. It doesn't say not to do it at all, so far as I can tell.

bagoh20 said...

O.T. I found this at Insty very interesting.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/michael-koh/2013/11/16-people-on-things-they-couldnt-believe-about-america-until-they-moved-here/#HEUc8Gl03V5QOhEr.01

It says a lot of different things about what we have to be proud of, embarrassed by and need to hang on to.

It gives you some appreciation for what kind of people we are in the eyes of others who actually meet us, and also even gives me an appreciation for some of the things the government does provide despite all the crap it loads on top of the good stuff.

Lydia said...

The Chicago Sun-Times is the liberal paper, the Tribune has traditionally been the conservative one and usually endorsed Republicans for president. Its support of Obama in 2008 and 2012 was an aberration. It's important that he's lost them, but not as big a deal as it would be if they were deep-down liberal.

bagoh20 said...

Some of the stuff at that story above will piss you off, especially from the people from Europe - they love socialism. And everyone from everywhere agrees on one thing - we eat too much.

Shouting Thomas said...

@bagoh

A lot of the things that immigrants saw as negatives seem to me to be positives.

They don't seem to connect the things that amaze them with the incredible success and dynamism of the U.S.

Icepick said...

In other news, George Zimmerman has been arrested for beating up his new girlfriend. Oops.

Michael Haz said...

George Zimmerman is becoming the new Rodney King.

ndspinelli said...

Lydia, Historically and generally you're correct about the Sun Times being more liberal. However, don't forget Rupert Murdoch owned the Sun Times for a few years back in the 80's. For the past couple decades I would say the Tribune has been moderate and the Sun Times, left of center but not like the NYT or WaPo. Recently, both those hated Koch Bros. and Murdoch have tried to buy the Tribune Co. I don't know what's up w/ that currently.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

Money's tight in the news business so they front page only the guys they think will give them good return on the investment.

bagoh20 said...

Just a few days before the holiday many will find out that they have a huge unexpected premium bill, they have no insurance for a while, and nobody told them.

Merry Christmas!

"[Healthcare.gov] Rep: You must make your first premium payment by 12/15/13 for your coverage to begin January 1, 2014. If you make your payment by the 21st, your coverage will begin in February 1, 2014.

TWS: You said above “It may give you that option” to pay on healthcare.gov. Does that mean it’s not available yet?

Rep: We are still experiencing some technical difficulties with the website, which is why it would be best to possibly go through the insurance company to make your first premium payment."


http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obamacare-deadlines-shortened-lack-payment-options_767318.html?nopager=1

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

Speaking of return on investment, the right side of the internet has become increasingly prone to oversell of late, at the risk of its credibility, and I agree with Lydia.

Icepick said...

George Zimmerman is becoming the new Rodney King.

Both represent knuckleheads well.

Icepick said...

As does the current POTUS.

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Shouting Thomas said...

@Lydia

Your description of the Tribune's ownership is ancient.

The Tribune changed ownership long ago.

I've been reading it for years. It's my hometown paper. I don't read it for the politics. I read it for Cubs' and Illini news. It's been pretty solidly Democratic for a long time.

There really is no Republican Party in Cook County, so who would read it if it were Republican?

Lydia said...

"It's [the Chicago Tribune] been pretty solidly Democratic for a long time."

With the exception of Obama, hasn't the paper always supported a Republican for president? Don't see how that makes it a Democratic paper.

KCFleming said...

Almost all papers are Democrat papers. Even the WSJ is left-leaning, except for the editorials.

The newspaper's own editorials mean nothing. Few people read them except old people or for material to mock.

The stuff that actually get s read, i.e., the rest of the paper, is reliably written by journo grads fully trained in the dark arts of liberal writing (white privilege, deconstructionism, post-modern claptrap, etc.).

Even sports are left-leaning or far left in orientation.

Steve Levitt: "Tim Groseclose and Jeff Milyo estimate how left-wing or right-wing media outlets are based on what research by think tanks they mention in their stories. They then compare that to the think-tank research that elected officials cite when they talk on the House or Senate floor, to calibrate where the media fits relative to the Congress. They find some interesting answers: most of the media does have a liberal bias (throwing out the editorial page, the Wall Street Journal is the most liberal of all, even beating the New York Times!). Fox News is one of the few outlets that is right of center."

edutcher said...

In thev immortal words of Bernard P Fife, "this is big, really big".

To go against the city machine, which produced our Little Zero, and the Democrat Party which rules it, is like the Tokyo paper questioning the government's conduct of the war after the March 1945 fire raid on Tokyo.

You don't do it without being willing to take your life (literally or professionally) in your hands.

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