{"id":1783,"date":"2015-03-26T16:47:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T16:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/07\/02\/cnn-dncs-donna-brazile-on-obamacare-mandate-as-tax-just-a-little-wellness-penalty-partisans\/"},"modified":"2015-03-26T16:47:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T16:47:15","slug":"donna-brazile-on-mandate-as-tax-just-a-little-wellnesspenalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/1783","title":{"rendered":"Donna Brazile on mandate as tax: ‘Just a little wellness penalty’"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/donnabrazile\/status\/219814399257489408\n

Oh, dear. CNN analyst and DNC vice-chair Donna Brazile took to Twitter to opine on the Supreme Court’s Obamacare mandate as a tax ruling. She, too, is pulling the old “it’s not a tax, even though the Supreme Court specifically ruled it as such, wing nuts<\/a>. Also, shut up” narrative. But she goes one spin better and calls it a “wellness penalty.” Orwellian much, Donna?<\/p>\n

What’s the big whoop, wing nutty wing nuts with nutty wings? So you are punished for being well; whatever! It’s not like you are being punished with a baby or anything.<\/p>\n

Bless her heart. With surrogates like these, President Obama, who needs enemies? If this is to be the new talking point\/spin of the Democratic National Committee, then November is looking better and better!<\/p>\n

Twitter users can’t even muster up much more than ridicule.<\/p>\n\n\n

@donnabrazile<\/a> …Penalty, tax, mandate – all words suggest 1 more difficulty 4 poor, elderly, middle class. Also, fair is no one opting out!<\/p>\n

— Karen Kortes (@auchic123) July 2, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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@donnabrazile<\/a> Nonsense! It is a penalty imposed on those who don't buy health care that they DON'T need.<\/p>\n

— David Hogberg (@DavidHogberg) July 2, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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Wellness penalty? Lmfao<\/p>\n

— Cú Chulainn (@RPtheGway) July 2, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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Remember that time Obama got a Nobel for doing nothing? TAXED.<\/p>\n

— Cuffé (@CuffyMeh) July 2, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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She then followed that up with hilarious irony.<\/p>\n\n\n

Imagine this? Desperate partisan politicians: “@thehill<\/a>: GOP lawmakers urge governors not to enact health law http:\/\/t.co\/V7IcBbWz<\/a>” shame<\/p>\n

— Donna Brazile (@donnabrazile) July 2, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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Oh, our aching sides! This coming from a woman who even politicizes the mere mention of Jeremiah Wright by calling it racist and a “hate fest.<\/a>” Plus, we aren’t too sure she knows what partisan actually means. We already know that she doesn’t know the meaning of shameful.<\/p>\n\n\n

@donnabrazile<\/a> You keep on using these two words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean.<\/p>\n

— Thomas Aquinas (@LilTommyAquinas) July 2, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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Keep digging, Obama surrogates. You are making it so much easier for Team Romney!<\/p>

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http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/donnabrazile\/status\/219814399257489408 Oh, dear. CNN analyst and DNC vice-chair Donna Brazile took to Twitter to opine on the Supreme Court’s Obamacare mandate as a tax ruling. She, too, is pulling the old “it’s not a tax, even though the Supreme Court specifically ruled it as such, wing nuts. Also, shut up” narrative. But she goes one spin … Continue reading Donna Brazile on mandate as tax: ‘Just a little wellness penalty’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}