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RNC blasts Obama and other liberals.

Want to see what a good political ad looks like? It's a tad long, but one of the most effective ads so far on the subject of taxation, obamacare and other goodies coming to a paycheck near you.

ObamaCare and Baucus will destroy state budgets.

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Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece yesterday, called Mad Max's Mandate . MMM is no longer the universal sound for yummy tasting food, it is now Max Baucus's version of ObamaCare and it's coming to a state near you. We have mentioned this bill previously and even though it lacks the notorious public option, some of the underlying ideas are equally dangerous best illustrated in pill format . Read the whole WSJ piece, but the crux of the problem lies in the following: Democrats want to use Medicaid to cover everyone up to at least 133% of the federal poverty level, or about $30,000 for a family of four. Starting in 2014, Mr. Baucus plans to spend $287 billion through 2019—or about one-third of ObamaCare's total spending—to add some 11 million new people to the Medicaid rolls This may sound noble and generous, but it's a disaster in disguise. Like Medicare, Medicaid is a controlled "single-payer" system with price fixing, restrictions, regulat