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“So in the elections of 2010, Republicans, independents and even some Democrats (Obama’s rating is now down to 43 percent in Rasmussen) will vote a straight Republican ticket. Gone is the chic notion that party doesn’t matter and one should vote for the individual.”

- Dick Morris

Social Security and Medicare were unpopular when they first passed. They have now become popular and Democrats have successfully used Social Security and Medicare to defeat Republicans by accusing them of cutting these entitlement programs. Democrats hope that by passing ObamaCare they will have another popular entitlement program to defeat Republicans with.

“On a Sunday talk show this past weekend, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked if she had the votes to pass Obama’s health care bill. Her answer was a one-word “yes.””

- Dick Morris And Eileen McGann

“Despite his prediction, on Fox News, that GOP congressional control will not come “this year,” the Republican Party has a very, very good chance of taking both houses of Congress in 2010.”

- Dick Morris

Democrats are reforming health care to “spread the wealth.”

“…the purpose is to further redistribute income by putting health care further under government control, and in the process making the middle class more dependent on government. As the party of government, Democrats will benefit over the long run.”

- Wall Street Journal

“I do think I do not want the same kind of focus on safety and soundness that we have in OCC [Office of the Comptroller of the Currency] and OTS [Office of Thrift Supervision]. I want to roll the dice a little bit more in this situation towards subsidized housing.”
- Barney Frank, 2003

“Fannie Mae, the nation’s biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people…”
- New York Times, 1999

1. PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICE CONTROLS (The disease that killed you might have been cured by a drug that was not discovered because the Democrats capped prescription drug prices which reduced money for drug research.)
2. UNION CARD CHECK (reduced competitiveness of American companies = You lost your job because the company you work for could not afford to pay union wages and stay in business.)
3. RENEGOTIATE MORTGAGE CONTRACTS IN BANKRUPTCY (more expensive mortgages = You will not be able to buy a house because you cannot afford the mortgage payment.)
4. WINDFALL PROFITS TAX ON OIL COMPANIES (higher energy prices = You will pay more to fill your gas tank and heat your home.)

- Wall Street Journal

“I will not raise taxes on the middle class to pay for these programs. If the money does not come in there to pay for these programs, we will cut other government spending or we will slow down the phase-in of the programs. I am not gonna raise taxes on the middle class to pay for these programs.”

- Bill Clinton, October 19, 1992

“But families earning as little as $20,000 a year — members of the “forgotten middle class” whose taxes he promised during his campaign to cut — will also be asked to send more dollars to Washington under the President’s plan.”

- New York Times, February 18, 1993

“How hard have conservatives tried to eliminate the Department of Education or subsidies to public television? Would they have more success uncreating a new nationalized health care system?”

- Mona Charen