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LiLSpeedy — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 09:10:48 GMT

Repeal, OK do it! Now what are you repubs going to replace it with? It's put up of shut up time now. Repeal it, the name will change to TRUMP DON'T CARE. It's not easy to rip up something that has been in place now since 2010. The people that will suffer is the rust belt and coal miners that are already on hard times. You repubs repeal it, you will own it. GO AHEAD AND MAKE AMERICA SICK AGAIN.

Original Blog Entry: This Republican congresswoman's Twitter poll on Obamacare didn't go well for her — at all

LiLSpeedy — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 08:58:57 GMT

This Republican congresswoman's Twitter poll on Obamacare didn't go well for her at all

Dan Mangan CNBC.com

Representative Marsha Blackburn's tweet about repealing Obamacare backfires.

Marsha, Marsha, Marsha ...

A Twitter poll by ardent Obamacare foe Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., on whether the health-care law should be repealed backfired big-time Wednesday as lots more people a whole lot more people tweeted No, rather than Yes.

Blackburn posted the poll Tuesday, asking people their views on repeal, and requesting that they retweet their support for killing Obamacare if they favored repeal.

She also asked in that tweet what people want to see as a replacement for the Affordable Care Act.

When the poll closed Wednesday, a whopping 84 percent of the nearly 8,000 votes were for No on the question of repeal.

The Hill.com noted that Blackburn's cause probably wasn't helped by the fact that White House Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz retweeted the poll Tuesday to his more than 23,000 Twitter followers.

Schultz's boss, President Barack Obama, lists the ACA as his signature legislative achievement, and on Wednesday visited Capitol Hill to encourage his fellow Democrats to defend it against Republican repeal-and-replace efforts.

Also Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump, who has repeatedly called for the repeal of the ACA, warned his fellow Republicans in several tweets to be careful how they handle the issue. Trump's tweets said Democrats own the mess and disaster of Obamacare, implying that if Republicans repeal-and-replace efforts lead to spikes in uninsured rates and premium prices, they too could suffer political fallout.

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