ACA Delay May Hurt, Not Help, Dems in 2014

RCP ^ | 07/07/2013 | By Alexis Simendinger

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O-B-A-M-A-C-A-R-E, the president's signature first-term legislative achievement, may spell another round of political trouble for many Democrats, who have some new explaining to do, thanks to the White House.

Whether employers are eagerly sidestepping a key provision for another year (as many learned they would after a concession Tuesday night from President Obama) or House Republicans persist in voting to repeal the whole law (which they’ve done nearly 40 times), it’s clear the Affordable Care Act continues to exist under a cloud more than two years after its enactment.

“This is a setback for the administration and for Democrats,” Jim Manley, a former senior communications adviser to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, told RCP. “It puts the Democrats in a little bit of a bind. …What you’re going to see is Republicans seizing on this for everything it is worth.”

Indeed. Republicans on Capitol Hill predicted that by bowing to complaints from the business community about burdens within a complex law, Obama opened a door to the possibility of delaying the implementation of the ACA as it affects individuals, who are required by January to buy insurance or pay penalties in 2015.

“What is a Democratic candidate supposed to say in light of this: 'Yes, I supported Obamacare but thankfully we delayed it to protect you from how bad it is’?" asked Brad Dayspring, spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

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‘Yes, I supported Obamacare but thankfully we delayed it to protect MY POLITICAL CAREER from how bad it is’?”

There, fixed it!

[Gene Eric]

While the enforcement deferral might elucidate one of many Obamacare fallacies, the GOPs belligerent amnesty efforts will surely counteract any Republican favorability for 2014.

The silly stupid party.

[SendShaqtoIraq]

Speaking of her uneducated self...
My pastors wife is a teacher and she was telling me some stuff that’s in that common core and also what they are teaching new teachers.
To new teachers- kids don’t need to waste time learning multiplication because they can use a calculator; they don’t need to learn to read be aide there r programs on computers that can read to them

Common core explicitly tells teachers to teach that democracies don’t work and communism is successful (yes I know and she knows we aren’t a democracy but that’s what most people think we are)