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    Default "GOP cave on Obamacare repeal is the biggest broken promise in political history"

    "Republicans ran on repealing and replacing Obamacare for seven years, over the course of four election cycles"

    "In 2010, they campaigned on repeal, but by 2011, they said they needed the Senate. In 2014, they won the Senate, but by 2015 they said as long as Obama was in office, nothing would become law. In 2016, they told conservative voters, even reluctant ones, that if they voted for Trump despite any reservations, they'd finally be able to repeal Obamacare. In November, voters gave them unified control of Washington. And yet after just two months on the job, they have thrown in the towel and said they're willing to abandon seven years of promises"

    "Here's the bottom line: Republicans didn't want to repeal Obamacare that badly. Obamacare was a useful tool for them. For years, they could use it to score short-term messaging victories"

    "Failing and then walking away on seven years of promises is a pathetic abdication of duty"

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/go...rticle/2618413

    And that is a conservative source, not the "MSM"

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    "GOP cave on Obamacare repeal is the biggest broken promise in political history"
    unless you count "if you like your insurance you can keep your insurance".......and a few dozen others from 2008....or "if you reelect me I can still fix it" from 2012.....

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    It had to fail, the republicans could not stand the fact one American aside from their benefactors would benefit. When will the voters realize the republicans play them, they give them someone, some group, to hate or disparage and laugh all the way to the bank. It is among the the great comedies of human nature, no great writer could possibly do it justice. And still they follow....
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    I'm pretty sure that Dan Quayle made the biggest political broken promise when he guaranteed that if he and Poppa Bush were elected that no other nation would have better educated U.S. Citizens.
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    LBJ argues he should be in the running.


    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1qj6MVGuX8E

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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    LBJ argues he should be in the running.


    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1qj6MVGuX8E
    To be honest no political promise by a Presidential candidate in my lifetime was as egregious a lie as Nixon's promise to end the Vietnam war.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    To be honest no political promise by a Presidential candidate in my lifetime was as egregious a lie as Nixon's promise to end the Vietnam war.
    Not sure which is worse, the lie to start or end it but having read all Robert Caro's books on LBJ he was already working on plans to send American boys overseas while making this comment. He knew full well we were going to be fighting a war there

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    Quote Originally Posted by midcan5 View Post
    It had to fail, the republicans could not stand the fact one American aside from their benefactors would benefit. When will the voters realize the republicans play them, they give them someone, some group, to hate or disparage and laugh all the way to the bank. It is among the the great comedies of human nature, no great writer could possibly do it justice. And still they follow....
    Like Obama and company when they played everyone on the benefits of ACA?
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    Trump is still blaming Obama for everything.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    To be honest no political promise by a Presidential candidate in my lifetime was as egregious a lie as Nixon's promise to end the Vietnam war.
    It ended, and the draft was stopped under his watch. If he hadn't gone and gotten run out of office, he would have overseen the final end to the war. I don't know what people were expecting. Immediate surrender?

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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    Not sure which is worse, the lie to start or end it but having read all Robert Caro's books on LBJ he was already working on plans to send American boys overseas while making this comment. He knew full well we were going to be fighting a war there
    Nope, no comparison between LBJ and Tricky Dick.

    Tricky Dick was a criminal thug with very few redeeming qualities.

    LBJ was responsible for improving the lives of tens of millions of Americans over the last half century, because of Medicare, Medicaid, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, and a plethora of public services and laws we take for granted these day, and we even forget they came from LBJ.

    The accomplishments Tricky Dick had, absolutely pale in comparison to the improvements to America LBJ was responsible for. If it had not been for Vietnam, LBJ would be considered one of our top five presidents ever.

    No comparison between the pure, criminal evil of Tricky Dick, and the flawed but transformational LBJ.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Nope, no comparison between LBJ and Tricky Dick.

    Tricky Dick was a criminal thug with very few redeeming qualities.

    LBJ was responsible for improving the lives of tens of millions of Americans over the last half century, because of Medicare, Medicaid, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, and a plethora of public services and laws we take for granted these day, and we even forget they came from LBJ.

    The accomplishments Tricky Dick had, absolutely pale in comparison to the improvements to America LBJ was responsible for. If it had not been for Vietnam, LBJ would be considered one of our top five presidents ever.

    No comparison between the pure, criminal evil of Tricky Dick, and the flawed but transformational LBJ.
    The topic was biggest broken promise, not who was a better president.

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    come to think of it, up to this year, has a president ever filled a campaign promise?......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Nope, no comparison between LBJ and Tricky Dick.

    Tricky Dick was a criminal thug with very few redeeming qualities.

    LBJ was responsible for improving the lives of tens of millions of Americans over the last half century, because of Medicare, Medicaid, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, and a plethora of public services and laws we take for granted these day, and we even forget they came from LBJ.

    The accomplishments Tricky Dick had, absolutely pale in comparison to the improvements to America LBJ was responsible for. If it had not been for Vietnam, LBJ would be considered one of our top five presidents ever.

    No comparison between the pure, criminal evil of Tricky Dick, and the flawed but transformational LBJ.
    To your point however there's no question LBJ was trans formative. When you lie us into a war that kills 57K Americans and create a whole generation of people who say they "grew up protesting the Vietnam War" you can be called transformational.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    To be honest no political promise by a Presidential candidate in my lifetime was as egregious a lie as Nixon's promise to end the Vietnam war.
    Dear idiot; he did end it. Good lord, it is hard to define such stupidity.
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