The only thing we find surprising about State Senator Bob Rucho is that he’s a North Carolina politician … not a South Carolina one.
How come? Well, the anti-Obamacare rhetoric elevates exponentially once you cross into the Palmetto State’s borders (even if South Carolina’s GOP leaders are stunningly hypocritical regarding the law).
Anyway Rucho – a 65-year-old Republican dentist from the Charlotte suburbs – has won the “Hate Obamacare” prize. By a landslide, people. Seriously … you may think you hate Obamacare, but Bob Rucho hates it more than you do. A LOT more. In fact Rucho believes the evil of U.S. President Barack Obama’s socialized medicine law outweighs all of the evil done by the Nazis, Soviets and “terrorists.”
Like … combined.
Wait … what?
Yup. The math according to Rucho: “Nazis + Soviets + Terrorists < Obamacare.”
In fact here’s the tweet Rucho sent out earlier this week articulating this view …
Justice Robert's pen & Obamacare has done more damage to the USA then the swords of the Nazis,Soviets & terrorists combined.
— Bob Rucho (@SenatorBobRucho) December 15, 2013
Wow …
Over the last four years this website has written dozens – if not hundreds – of articles blasting Obamacare (often using the coarsest vernacular). We opposed it when it was first unveiled. We opposed it while it was being shoved through a Democratic-controlled U.S. Congress, after it passed and during the debate over its repeal. We also strongly supported efforts by fiscal conservatives to keep funding for Obamacare out of the federal budget – and slammed those “Republicans” who sold out before the battle had even begun.
Our opposition to Obamacare isn’t reflexive, it is based on the thoroughly well-documented contention that excessive government regulation of the health care industry has yielded substandard care and soaring costs – and that an unprecedented expansion of such regulation will only make things worse.
Our opposition to Obamacare is also based on the belief that our fragile economy simply cannot afford the program and its billions of dollars in new taxes and crippling mandates on businesses.
Finally, our opposition to Obamacare is based on the belief that government has no right to compel free citizens to participate in a marketplace against their will.
Look … we’re not above throwing Nazi references out there, but context is key. For the charge to stick, the subject of the criticism must actually be doing something Nazi-esque (like this). Rucho badly missed that context – reinforcing the very worst stereotypes of Obamacare opponents in the process.
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I love Obamacare. It’s helping a lot of people and it’s here to stay. Thank God. I’m tired of the Nazi, socialist, Marxist, yada yada statements. People throwing those terms out don’t have an inkling about the meaning and that the terms are not interchangeable. Ignorance is bliss, even if you have doctor/dentist behind your name.
And I’m tired of Obama bashing. For heaven’s sake, he’s our president and one of the world’s leaders; we should stand behind him. Remember this “United we stand, divided we fall”.
No winners in this one
Up until this POTUS I exercised more tolerance in attacking the individual holding the Office of President
However, not all troops will be coming home and not everyone will be able to keep their insurance coverage
Barack Obama has done a damn pretty good job of dividing the American Taxpayers into two distinct groups – Believers and Nonbelievers
Buck Farack
It didn’t take long after Obama’s first election for Rush Limbaugh to loudly say “I hope he fails.” I also remember Beck’s parody on the soviet anthem regarding Obama, also very, very, very early.
The hate and the SocialCommuMarxist stuff was around not too far from Day 1. God forbid any of those idiots actually experience a government that takes over whole private industries, breaks into their homes to take their guns, and silences critics through brute force, as they always seem to think is just around the corner.
Smirks… Ya gotst calls waiting….
Line one….General Motors
Line two…..Randy Weaver
We’ve sold the last remaining shares in the company. Temporary, partial ownership of one manufacturer in an industry is not even remotely close to a full-fledged government takeover of an entire industry.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2013/12/09/us-sells-final-gm-shares/
And remember “if you like your doctor or dentist behind your name, you can keep your doctor or dentist behind your name… “
Tempted to throw out a few cockroach comments but heaven forbid, it may not be in “context”
Give me a fucking breaking Edith – this is a blog, everything is out of context
While on the subject of out of context what has happened to Amy Lazenby
She told me she was coming back. That was several months ago. ;-?
She douched with Will’s dick and now she’s dead.
Cockroaches and former cockroaches are immune to pol VD, not humans unfortunately.
In fact Rucho believes the evil of U.S. President Barack Obama’s socialized medicine law outweighs all of the evil done by the Nazis, Soviets and “terrorists.”
Not what he said.
His metric was “damage to the USA”.
Now, TBG doesn’t believe Obamacare “has already” done this….but give it 15 -20 years…
His metric was “damage to the USA”.
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not what he said
has done more damage to the USA then the swords of the Nazis,Soviets & terrorists combined
He’s not counting the bombs, planes, bullets, knives, poison gas, torture, or nasty looks.
he should change from sterno to a single malt scotch.
There’s a difference?
*ducks*
Republican damage to the United States outweighs all of the evil done by the Nazis, Soviets and “terrorists.”
And they’re just getting STARTED!
YOU LEAVE THE McRIB OUT OF THIS!!!
I don’t know, twerking has done a lot of damage, man…
When did BO start gassing Jews? Fits, even you should not make Nazi references.
TBG, I’ve got this one:
When did the Nazis start gassing Jews in America?
Thanks, CL.
As for Frequent Guest : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc8ZX_Asoo8
Why do we suspect that Obamacare will succeed? Krugman drops a hint:
“But one group has a strong incentive to be objective — and also has a much better perspective on what’s really going on than any lay observer. Namely, the insurance industry. So the shoe we’ve all been waiting to see drop — or not — was the surge of advertising urging people buying insurance through the exchanges to buy from me, me, me.
That shoe has just dropped, with $500 million of advertising spending now in the pipeline. Insurers think this is going to work.”
Not sure how that big-money bet of $600 million by the insurance industry stacks up against the enemies of Obamacare, but the health insurance industry would profit either way.
LOL. The insurance industry objective about whether it would rather have the government force people to buy their products?
The insurance company will no doubt pull out the stops, but you have to be delusional or incredibly dishonest to think it has anything to do with an impartial assessment of the merits of Obamacare. Especially since if Obamacare fails the liberal response will be a full push for a single payer system, which would put the insurance companies out of business.
Krugman has become court Jester, show some respect. He’s got a long line of lefties waiting to sniff some greatness from his rear.
He’s a dentist. If Obamacare made everyone buy dental insurance, he’d be pinching bottoms and whiffing the nitrous oxide.
The irony is that dental insurance for most has hardly changed for YEARS, and the ACA really didn’t change much regarding that.
“Rucho” doesn’t even sound like an American name.
I want to see his birth certificate . . . long form.
You wanna see the long one huh?
You wanna see the long one huh?
Better spit it out…cuz it’s NOT YOURS!!
The guy in the photo is a typical Teatard. He crossed out “No”, when he should have crossed out “Obamacare”, so his sign really says No “No Obamacare.” In other words, the sign is against those who are against Obamacare. You can’t fix stupid.
FITS, your writing about ACA sounds dilletente-ish.
This guy has to be BigT.
I heard that Obamacare is worse than Hiroshima, Nagasaki, the Crusades, Jihads, WWII, WWI, the Civil War, the Revolutionary War, the Death Star, Vietnam, Bin Ladin, the Holocaust, the Rwandan Genocide, and Nikki Haley combined.
Has anyone else noticed how the press is now trying to minimize the on-going debacle that gets worse with time instead of better? Two things to remember – its not the AHCA.. its OBAMACARE forever. Remember when he smugly said how much he liked the name during his campaign of lies!