Josh Kraushaar:
There’s nothing that Democrats want more than to change the subject from Obamacare, despite DNC Chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s protestations otherwise. Congressional Democrats don’t want to be dealing with a drip-drip of news about premiums going up, patients losing their doctors, and a broken health care website as they face angry voters in 2014. Hillary Clinton doesn’t want this issue lingering past the midterms. She hitched her presidential prospects to President Obama’s wagon and she’s not about to let someone else’s crisis damage her presidential ambitions yet again, Even Vice President Joe Biden, who called the health care law a “big f—ing deal,” didn’t mention it once at a fundraiser last week for North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan.
Unless the HealthCare.gov website miraculously gets fixed by next month, there’s a growing likelihood that over time, enough Democrats may join Republicans to decide to start over and scrap the whole complex health care enterprise. That became clear when even Obama, to stop the political bleeding, offered an administrative fix that threatened the viability of the entire individual exchange market to forestall a House Democratic mutiny the next day. It was as clear sign as any that the president is pessimistic about the odds that the federal exchange website will be ready by the end of the month, as promised.
More than anything, politics is about self-preservation, and the last two weeks provided numerous examples of how public opinion has turned so hard against the law that even its most ardent supporters are running for the hills. It’s not just red-state Democrats, like Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu, distancing themselves from the law. It’s blue-state senators like Oregon’s Jeff Merkley and New Hampshire’s Jeanne Shaheen — and top blue-state recruits like Michigan’s Gary Peters and Iowa’s Bruce Braley, who voted for GOP legislation Friday that the White House said would “gut” the law. Nearly every House Democrat in a competitive district joined with Republicans to threaten the law. Without a quick fix, those ranks will grow.
more at National Journal
Obama and the Dems are thankful for what we look at with shock and disbelief.
A huge storm in the Philippines.
A huge storm in the Midwest.
Obama and the Dems look at ”fly-over country” and hope they will all be distracted by these storms.
It’s called Schadenfreude.
One problem.
Liberals on each coast are being mugged by ObamaCare, too.
Their awakenings are nastier than our long-term simmering.
They cannot be distracted as their Black colleges drop their healthcare or their state allows a million insured households to get cancellation letters.
Schadenfreude goes both ways.
Haven’t there been enough ‘suggestions’ by the Conservatives/republicans of opening up the MARKETS across the states and let the FREE MARKETS and COMPETITION handle health care…they would do a much better job…the Private sector ALWAYS does a better job than the Government!|!
Can the United States Government, particularly the liberals/progressives/democrats/RINOS stop making the United States a Country of endless “Victims?” We haven’t come this far as a Nation to succumb to SOCIALISM and Redistribution of Middle Class Wealth through Fraudulent Government Schemes designed to steal peoples “hard earned” money – and after the last 5 years there isn’t much people have left to steal…
Government IS the PROBLEM!! RR