took control of congress in 2010 after that midterm, when in the president s memorable words, the democrats got their shellacking that year, hatred of obamacare, top of the lungs republican opposition to every element of obamacare, that became sort of the main thing that the republican party stood for and did in washington. we actually stopped counting at this show when the republican-controlled congress took its 70th not 17th, 70th vote to repeal obamacare. they never actually did repeal the law, but they tried to bite off little bits and pieces of it, and they kept repeatedly going back, making sure they could take 70 different votes that they could label repealing obamacare in order to show off to the republican base that they really stoked on this issue that they were doing the absolute most important thing they could do in the country, which is that health care reform. that effort on the republican side has continued. today there are 20
opposition to healthcare reform, to obamacare, the affordable care act, right, that took on a life of its own and became an almost feral, wild part of republican and conservative political identity in that era. and when the republican party took control of congress in 2010 after that midterm, when, in the president s memorable words, the democrats got their shellacking that year, hatred of obamacare, top of the lungs republican opposition to every element of obamacare, that became sort of the main thing that the republican party stood for and did in washington. we actually stopped counting at this show when the republican-controlled congress took its 70th not 17th 70th vote to repeal obamacare. they never actually did repeal the law, but they tried to bite off little bits and pieces of it, and they kept repeatedly going back, making sure they could take 70 different votes that they could label repealing obamacare in order to show off to the republican base that they
where republicans who have been inveighing against the evils of obamacare for years, who have been voting to kill obamacare for years, who have been supporting these efforts, actively supporting efforts now to get rid of preexisting coverage, preexisting conditions coverage specifically, all these republicans on the occasion of this election two weeks from tonight, all these republicans are now pretending, actually on this issue, i m kind of a democrat. all these republicans now trying to run on the democratic party s position on health care. they re all running against themselves. in wisconsin, preexisting conditions are covered. and as long as i m governor, they always will be. actually, under governor scott walker, wisconsin is the lead named plaintiff on the federal lawsuit that would eliminate obamacare, including specifically its protections for people with preexisting conditions. but nice try. i m josh hawley. i support forcing insurance companies to cover all preexisting
would be ended if republicans got that passed. that lawsuit by 20 republican-led states that s pending in the courts right now to eliminate all of obamacare, it hello also explicitly and specifically seeks to remove preexisting conditions. republicans are desperately trying both in congress and in the states and through the courts to kill coverage for preexisting conditions. that s what they re actively working on. don t listen to what they say. watch what they do this. is what they re doing. and they used to think this was great politics. it s clear that it s not great politics anymore. the electorate is now absolutely opposed to them on this and really cares about health care as an issue heading into this election. so now there is this weird thing happening, in hotly contested races all across the country, where republicans who have been inveighing against the evils of obamacare for years, who have been vote fog kill obamacare for years, who have been supporting these efforts, active
out that she is 1/1024 native american. may be. and that s less native american than the average american. so who do you want to see? i would give him the toughest run, do you think? who s the most competitive? you see him touting biden but then all you have to do is talk about the obama economy. is he responsible for that? eric: obama? joe biden. eric: while he was certainly part of the team we had to. we had horrible health care and he was certainly part of the architecture of obamacare. we had economy that grew at the worst rate since the great depression, meaning the recovery was the worst since the great depression. you had you cost every country company left the country, it was