Mary Katherine Ham:
A variation on the “you’re gonna love it once it’s fully enacted” chorus of fibs we’ve been hearing since this thing was passed in 2009. It isn’t really news, per se, that Rep. Nancy Pelosi is willing to support a pass for employers for this law that doesn’t go to individuals about to be hit with the mandate tax. It’s not news that she’s willing to ignore the many failings of the law and its implementation and refer to it as utterly “sound policy,” even as the worst Jenga tower every constructed is crumbling before her. But it is illustrative of the Democratic plan to put blinders on and say “but, but, we passed a law!” when faced with the unfairness of the system they’ve created and the waivers they’re granting. It’s also illustrative of how lazy an answer Democrats offer on this stuff. “It’s a totally different issue,” she says. Well, that settles that. Enjoy your sound policy. Unless their sound policy took your formerly sound policy away.
For more on the lazy answer front see this from Sen. Joe Manchin, who thinks we should delay the whole thing. Imagine that!
“You’re just picking and choosing,” the West Virginia Democrat said of the administration’s decision. “First it’s basically the large employers, then it’s medium groups, then it’s 50 to 100 — medium-sized. If there’s a problem, there’s a problem.” He said there’s bipartisan support for legislation postponing the implementation of the entirety of the Affordable Care Act until 2015. “We’re sure in a transition period and they keep changing the dates,” the senator said, frustrated. “So I wish everyone would come to grips.”
I would love to know who ever put Obamacare together….This is so terrible for so many people and Pelosi has no clu what it is all about……I wish she would just shut her mouth because she sounds senile now……
The left passed their law that had all the taxes and penalties in it they are so fond of but not much thought went in to how it would work. In their rush to get it emplaced before they lost control of the entirety of the government they failed to consider the massive negative effects of their brain-bastard.
The same is true of the website. They had their law in place, then they all just walked away, never checking in on any of the progress of the mechanisms necessary to make the law work (if it possibly could). Again, the result is catastrophe.
The left just has, inbedded in their genetics, a disinterest in making any understanding of how the real world works and how their machinations affect the working guy. Just take more money, waste it, then take more to clean up the mess they made.