Posted on 11/18/2013 11:09:59 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
President Obama told supporters Monday night that he needed their help battling against “a lot of misinformation” spread by political opponents about his signature healthcare legislation.
Speaking on a virtual conference call hosted by Organizing for Action — the political group born from his reelection campaign — the president admitted that problems with the ObamaCare website had put a damper on early enrollment efforts.
“The good news is it’s getting better every single week,” Obama said. “I am confident that by the end of this month it is going to be functioning for the vast majority of folks.”
The president conceded that the botched rollout “created and fed a lot of this misinformation” about the law. He said that some individuals would still need to be enrolled by phone or in person, even after repairs to the website were complete. And he accused Republicans of complicating efforts to get the program off the ground.
“Obviously, we haven’t been getting a lot of cooperation from the other party,” he said.
Obama encouraged supporters to talk face-to-face with neighbors, friends, and family members about the law. He also suggested that proponents of ObamaCare should use holiday parties and family gatherings to encourage their loved ones to purchase insurance.
“We have to remember the conversations we’re having around the dinner table,” Obama said.
He also thanked his backers for their support during the trying early weeks of the ObamaCare rollout.
“Despite all the noise out there, despite all the criticism, despite all the setbacks that we’ve experienced during this process, I’ve never lost faith,” he said, adding that his supporters were “what keeps me going.”
Despite the president’s assurances, his tone throughout his 12 minutes of remarks was noticeably subdued — an issue amplified by a scratchy phone connection that made it, at times, difficult to hear the president.
Many reporters struggled initially to join the call because of buffering issues with the website, an ironic twist considering that a purpose of the teleconference was to downplay problems with HealthCare.gov.
Still, OFA executive director Jon Carson announced that over 200,000 individuals had accessed the teleconference.
The president also took a brief detour from discussing his signature health care law to denounce a move by Senate Rpeublicans to filibuster the nomination of Robert Wikins’s nomination to the D.C. Court of Appeals.
Obama blasted the move as “obstructionism” and “completely unprecedented,” while hinting that the fight "may get more attention" in the coming weeks.
That could indicate that Democrats are steeling for another battle over Senate filibuster rules.
Following a similar filibuster of Rep. Mel Watt (D-N.C.) to oversee the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Vice President Joe Biden said it was “worth considering” the so-called nuclear option. Democrats could change the upper chamber’s rules so that only a simple majority was necessary to confirm nominees.
It’s a curious moment in history. There in early October...was a small group of fringe Republicans offering the deal of a lifetime. All the Administration had to do...was accept, and then blame the Republicans for the delay. It was a five-star offering, and they weren’t bright enough to grasp it.
None of my friends or relatives are dumb enough to bring up politics with me even if they disagree. If they do say anything about 0bamaCare I’ll just say “get back to me in six months.” By then they will hate you without my encouragement, 0buttwipe.
Well now, how about this one for a party conversation starter:
stepping back in time to 2010 — quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2539940/posts
CONGRESS MUST REPEAL OBAMA’S HEALTH-CARE RATIONING PLAN
KANSAS CITY.com ^ | Posted on Sun, Jun. 20, 2010 10:15 PM Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/06/20/2031634/congr | by Senator Pat Roberts
Posted on June 23, 2010 at 2:47:07 AM PDT by Cindy
AS I SEE IT
Congress must repeal Obama’s health-care rationing plan By SEN. PAT ROBERTS
Special to The Star
SNIPPET: “U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, a Republican from Dodge City, Kan., is a member of the Senate Health and Finance committees. He voted against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.”
SNIPPET: “It has scarcely been three months since the new health reforms, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), were signed into law. Unfortunately, as I and many of my colleagues predicted, the promises made to the American people by the president and the majority are already unraveling.
The president promised Americans that “if you like your insurance plan, you can keep it.” Well, not exactly. Under regulations proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services to implement the new law, more than 51 percent of American workers could lose the plans they currently have.
By the administration’s own estimates, small businesses are especially affected — as many as 80 percent would not be able to continue to offer the plans they currently have. For many Kansans, this means their employer will drop their coverage altogether. Others will be forced to purchase a more expensive plan that complies with all of the new government mandates.
Either way, my fear that you won’t be able to keep the plan you like is being confirmed.
The president promised Americans that their Medicare benefits won’t change. However, the law cuts more than a half-trillion dollars from Medicare, with more than $100 billion cut from Medicare Advantage alone.”
Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/06/20/2031634/congress-must-repeal-obamas-health.html
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
Trays and trays of Obama holiday hors d'oeuvre! Recipes for the demise of America.
When all else fails, resume the campaign!
“............Washington is a town full of chuckleheads — people who don’t know what they’re talking about but are good at sounding as if they do. Eloquence is their strong suit. New York Senator Chuck Schumer still brags about his 800 College Board scores as if that makes him an expert on everything. There is nothing new about this. Studies of primitive tribes have shown that people who emerge as leaders are as likely to be good talkers as they are skilled in things such as the art of war. And who but a bunch of such chuckleheads could have imagined you could rearrange the nation’s entire healthcare economy by putting up a single website? Only a politician who has never accomplished anything in the private sector but has watched others in action and decided the whole thing is easy could have such a notion.
In his great book, Socialism, written in 1921, Ludwig von Mises quotes Lenin, who wrote somewhere that taking over an industrial economy was going to be easy — all you have to do is make the bookkeeping entries and record the profits. Von Mises compares the socialist understanding of economic essentials to that of “the errand boy, whose only idea of the work of the entrepreneur is that he covers pieces of paper with letters and figures.” The same could be said for President Obama and all the Democrats in Congress who have decided they can take over the nation’s health insurance industry and run it in their spare time.
The effort to redo healthcare begins with the assumption that the insurance business is essentially illegitimate. It is only run “for profits” and not for the good of the people. After all, there are almost 40 million Americans without health insurance. If the government were running the system, everybody would have health insurance and be happy as well. This is an old story and can be applied to any business. Take out “the profits” and everything will run smoothly for the benefit of all..............”
http://spectator.org/articles/56527/washingtons-chuckleheads
All the King’s donkeys
And all the King’s men
Couldn’t make Barry’s nose short again.
He might as well encourage partygoers to try selling Amway
distributorships to each other. Oh, never mind, that’s the substandard private sector.
I need co-conspiritors
FUBO
Right....Holiday topic of discussion....
OK, I will sing, Joy to the World, I am not in the Obamination.
Flag@whitehouse.blarg, attack watch, NSA stukach fees for school kids...
More of the same lame propaganda fluff from Zero.
When do the 9mm brain hemorrhages at 2 Dzerzhinsky square begin?
Pass the crack pipe and the egg nog Reggie. What a party to tal about Obamacare.
He can’t even get his MSM to promote his misinformation anymore.
I don't think it is a very good idea to make people talk about Zerocare during the holidays. Those 100 millions will turn out to be quite scarce.
Census ‘faked’ 2012 election jobs report "In the home stretch of the 2012 presidential campaign, from August to September, the unemployment rate fell sharply — raising eyebrows from Wall Street to Washington.
The decline — from 8.1 percent in August to 7.8 percent in September — might not have been all it seemed. The numbers, according to a reliable source, were manipulated.
And the Census Bureau, which does the unemployment survey, knew it.
Just two years before the presidential election, the Census Bureau had caught an employee fabricating data that went into the unemployment report, which is one of the most closely watched measures of the economy.
And a knowledgeable source says the deception went beyond that one employee — that it escalated at the time President Obama was seeking reelection in 2012 and continues today.........."
“Talk up Obamacare” at office parties? Don’t you have to have a job to do that? His people may talk it up, if they are fully “subsidized” (paying nothing).
But why would the productive class “talk up” something that further enslaves them to deadbeat strangers? Once again Barry is FOS.
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