Posted on 11/14/2013 6:50:54 PM PST by NormsRevenge
(11-14) 16:23 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- President Obama's mea culpa and proposals to fix his health care overhaul Thursday didn't mollify California Democrats furious over the administration's botched rollout of its signature law, which they fear could dash their hopes of retaking the House and jeopardize the party in competitive races in the state.
"This is Obama's Katrina," said Democratic strategist Garry South, referring to the 2005 hurricane that inundated New Orleans and robbed then-President George W. Bush of much of his second-term credibility when his administration bungled the disaster response.
"If you're a Democrat running in an endangered seat who has supported" the Affordable Care Act, South said, "how can you defend this?"
Rep. Juan Vargas, D-San Diego, surveyed the damage and said, "Someone messed up. Someone's head ought to roll."
The harsh reaction came after Obama proposed changes that would let insurance companies offer customers the option of continuing with coverage that does not meet Affordable Care Act requirements. House takeover iffy
Obama acknowledged that his "fumbled" rollout of the health plan "has put a burden on Democrats" in next year's midterm elections.
Democrats had hoped to capitalize on the Republican-prompted partial shutdown of the federal government to pick up the net gain of 17 seats they need to win back the House. That is looking like a much tougher challenge now.
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More and more I’m really believing that Obamacare can be a Death Star for Democrats.
How can you defend this?
uhhhhh
Can someone put up that video of George Costanza eating popcorn?
I say we keep shooting sterno cans at it ‘til it has a real pretty shimmer.. then roast some marshmallows
You're assuming the Republicans know how to take advantage of it.....big assumption.
$800billion wasted in the phony “stimulus” should have been enough to sink him after one term.
“Democrats had hoped to capitalize on the Republican-prompted partial shutdown”
The what? Who? When?
Hahahaha! I was in Katrina. This is WAY worse than Katrina!
for the half the population who voted for it will never be able to comprehend it what is there to defend
This is much, much worse that “Bush’s Katrina.” They are delusional. There is no comparison.
assumes evidence not in fact or much on display for quite some time when it comes to cajonies on the Gayop side of the aisle.
Yeah you’re probably right.
12 months is a long time....
The part I really enjoy is that the constant MSM characterization of the regime as hip, brilliant, unflappable, and so totally tech savvy, has been demolished.
Caliph Baraq has been revealed as the dumb@ss Chicago ward heeler he always was.
There’s something I’m not understanding here.
Why haven’t all the people entiteld to free or heavily subsidized signed up?
“Rep. Juan Vargas, D-San Diego, surveyed the damage and said, “Someone messed up. Someone’s head ought to roll.””
Sorry Juan, that D behind your name means someone is you. Funny how it works that way.
It’s worse. Obamacare effects 314,000,000 people and will kill many more than the 2000 killed by Katrina.
Maybe because the website to do it is a total fail.
They don’t have to run on it for a year. Yet by delaying enforcement of the law for a year, Obama’s virtually guaranteed the same situation in the run up to next years elections with the added “bonus” of the employer mandate (and subsequent deluge of cancellations that will cause)
I get the delay - political cover hoping the time allows the storm to blow over. I don’t get why only one year. It just makes no sense.
The navigators are mostly union folks. Don't expect them to work at too rapid a pace.
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