UPDATE: An astute reader sent us this Udall quote from a press release back in the day when he read this post, just to remind Coloradans how out of touch Udall is with reality:
“We aren’t going to create more jobs in America unless we lift the burden of escalating health insurance costs on our economy. Health insurance reform gives us a solid foundation, enabling us to expand affordable coverage to 32 million Americans, reduce the deficit and strengthen our economy while lowering the growth of health insurance costs.”
Well, that worked out well.
When we sit in our offices, we like to ponder the deeper mysteries of life, such as, if Wisconsin has more lakes than Minnesota, why isn’t Wisconsin the Land of 10,000 Lakes? And, now, more and more every day, if Senator Mark Udall knew Obamacare was going to be such a disaster, would he still have voted for it?
Just kidding. We don’t wonder about that last one, since we know there is no way Udall would have voted for it if he knew it’d be this bad. …Or would he? Can we get a reporter to ask Udall about that next time he’s on camera?
Reporter: Knowing what you know now, would you still vote for Obamacare?
Udall: Well, you see my schedule is what I’m running on, and the President has records we like to listen to, but only when Colorado is voting for, have you heard how I write letters to protecting privacy?
In more terrible news for the Udall-enabled Obamacare, the highly-respected, non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report yesterday that The Washington Post said “sent the White House scrambling to defend a law that has bedeviled President Obama for years.” [the Peak emphasis]
Yeesh, sounds like the type of report that would send Udall staffers to the bottle before noon— hope they don’t call any public servants!
Highlights of the report had more than two million people dropping out of the workforce specifically because of Obamacare. The funny thing? Obama’s poor press hound, Jay Carney, had to stand up in front of all the White House press corps and claim this was a good thing, that it really meant more freedom. How he keeps a straight-face when uttering such nonsense, we will never know.
This two million number is doubly tragic for Udall and Obama, especially taking into account that 93% of people who have any type of job, whether it is part-time, or full-time live above the poverty line. And, the percentage of people who live below the poverty line is reduced to just 3% if someone works in a full-time, year-round position.
A full 97% of people who work full-time are not in poverty. Yet, Udall was the deciding vote for Obamacare which will lead to a full 2 million people dropping out of work. You’d think if Udall really cared about helping people out of poverty he never would have voted for this bill in the first place.
So, what do we do with Udall? My thoughts are:
Why would Udall be concerned about healthcare cancellations stemming from Obamacare in Colorado?
– He wasn’t at all concerned that he didn’t read this enormously important bill.
– He wasn’t at all concerned that he didn’t know what was in the bill.
– He wasn’t even concerned that Americans opposed it (Obamacare) by 62.5%; Udall just arranged a telephone town hall meeting where he and his staff pre-screened the attendees to insure he would only hear what he wanted to hear. Problem solved!
The next step toward jamming Obamacare down our throats was parroting the talking points. Both Obama and Udall repeated these blatant lies frequently, as did many in their party.
– We can keep our healthcare plan if we like it!
– We can keep our doctor if we like him or her!
– The average family healthcare premium cost will drop by $2,500 per year!
Udall still supports Obamacare while we Coloradan’s and American’s still oppose it….and not a single Republican Party member voted for it. WHY?
– Maybe Udall’s allegiance is to Obama and his party instead of to us Coloradan’s and American’s.
– Maybe it’s because Udall & staff joined Harry Reid’s “bitch session” with Obama and Obama gave Udall and his staff a 75% taxpayer paid subsidy for their healthcare insurance premium because they couldn’t afford it! (Gee, Udall only makes $174,000 + per year!!)
– But hey, Udall and his staff are looking out for us now as we approach reelection.
He and his staff are challenging Colorado’s Division of Insurance numbers that reported 250,000 of us Coloradan’s have received healthcare insurance cancellations due to Obamacare. After that challenge, upon further review, that number was increased to 335,000 cancellations.
So what do we do with Udall come 11/2014? My thoughts revolve around integrity and honesty, the foundation and basis for trust in all human relationships. Unlike your life or your property, it can’t be taken away from you; by anyone. In order to lose it, you must choose to give it away. Udall, like Obama, has consciously sacrificed his integrity and honesty by placing himself and his party’s agenda ahead of Coloradan’s and American’s wishes. It is clear that we cannot trust Udall so, “FIRE THE LIAR in 2014” and elect a politician who puts us ahead of themselves & their party.
Furthermore, Udall continues his silent acceptance of Obama’s lawlessness that strips him of his Constitutional responsibilities to us. Who needs or wants an inept liar as one of our US Senators?
"On Tuesday, a new report [PDF] on the economic outlook for the U.S. through 2024 was released by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Republicans couldn’t wait to mischaracterize lie about what it said.
As usual, Fox “News” led the charge on behalf of Republican officials (who repeated the lie all day), claiming that “ObamaCare could lead to loss of nearly 2.3 million US jobs, report says.”
The National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC) was just one of dozens of other official GOP mouthpieces to echo the completely misleading claim.
Non-partisan CBO report admits #ObamaCare is hurting the economy, will cost 2.5 millions jobs. http://t.co/wpIi1NfvV5
— NRCC (@NRCC) February 4, 2014
For the record, other non-right-wing outlets also badly mischaracterized the report. The Republicans were very happy about that, and couldn’t be bothered to correct the error.
No, the CBO did not claim Obamacare will lead to the loss of either 2.3 million or 2.5 million jobs, as the Republicans lied all day on Tuesday.
As the Washington Post’s Fact Checker columnist Glenn Kessler explained in awarding three out of four “Pinocchios” to those who deliberately mislead about the CBO’s projection on ACA-related employment numbers, “No, CBO did not say Obamacare will kill 2 million jobs.”
“This is not about jobs,” Kessler explains. “It’s about workers — and the choices they make.”
Here’s what all the nonsense is about. Buried on page 123 of the 182-page CBO report, it states: “CBO estimates that the ACA will reduce the total number of hours worked, on net, by about 1.5 percent to 2.0 percent during the period from 2017 to 2024, almost entirely because workers will choose to supply less labor — given the new taxes and other incentives they will face and the financial benefits some will receive.”
In other words, because premium subsidies and other incentives will be available, some workers will eventually be able to choose to not continue working, simply because they need the healthcare coverage afforded by their employment.
“Specifically, CBO estimates that the ACA will cause a reduction of roughly 1 percent in aggregate labor compensation over the 2017–2024 period, compared with what it would have been otherwise,” the report says. “The estimated reduction stems almost entirely from a net decline in the amount of labor that workers choose to supply, rather than from a net drop in businesses’ demand for labor, so it will appear almost entirely as a reduction in labor force participation and in hours worked relative to what would have occurred otherwise rather than as an increase in unemployment.”
As White House spokesman Jay Carney explained after the report was released on Tuesday: “At the beginning of this year, we noted that as part of this new day in health care, Americans would no longer be trapped in a job just to provide coverage for their families, and would have the opportunity to pursue their dreams,” he said. “This CBO report bears that out, and the Republican plan to repeal the ACA would strip those hard-working Americans of that opportunity.”
This is about people choosing to not work as long in life or as many hours. (Moreover, those jobs could then become available to others still seeking more work.) In short, the CBO’s numbers were not about the loss of jobs, at all. It’s really not all that complicated, unless you’d like to lie to the American people about it.
Now, you are welcome to disagree with the CBO numbers, or Carney’s or Kessler’s or our interpretation of them. (As usual, you don’t need to simply trust us. We’ve given you the links to the actual reports. Read them and decide for yourself.) You are welcome to think it’s an outrage that people might choose to work less when they are ill, because they don’t have to keep working in order to pay for healthcare. You are welcome to hate Obamacare all you like and demand its complete repeal, just as you are welcome to call for the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, if you like the idea of shipping the world’s dirtiest fossil fuel product across a continent of drinking water in order to ship gas to China.
But when you’ve got to lie, repeatedly, about demonstrable, independently verifiable facts, then you are not a legitimate advocate that deserves to be taken seriously."
http://www.salon.com/2014/02/06/r_i_p_republican_credibility_why_their_latest_blatant_lies_show_theyve_given_up/
Udall is in Obamas pocket, he will vote as is told no matter the consequences for the american people!