It’s the very specificity of all those factors that makes the current crisis different from what has gone before. It’s easy to forget what happened at Benghazi; most of us had never heard of it before the attack. The sneaky IRS subterfuge, illegal and shameful as it was, fades into the background.
But when those monthly bills keep coming, they serve as never-ending reminders that Obamacare was a tricky ruse. This one just doesn’t sink into the sunset. When you find that Uncle Sam, for all Obama’s promises, has indeed forced you to shift to another doctor, you’re not inclined simply to say, “Well, I don’t understand it, but I guess it will all be OK.”
That’s what Obama and his fellow sponsors of this terrible measure face now—a constant drumbeat of anger while millions of Americans are reminded incessantly how they were deceived and duped into inferior coverage and care at significantly heightened costs. It won’t just go away.
None of this will require the active opposition of Obamacare’s opponents. We’re talking instead about a built-in drip-drip-drip of Chinese water torture that, by its very nature, won’t let the issue go away. Every day, every week, every month of every year, millions of frustrated citizens will be reminded a few more times of what a bum deal they’ve inherited.
And don’t think for a minute that Obamacare’s website is its main problem. What’s dawning on folks around the country is that the plan itself is terribly flawed—that the federal effort to control the healthcare decisions of millions of people just isn’t smart or able enough to carry off such an assignment.
All of which is why voters in Virginia started running scared in the early November gubernatorial election, almost defying the polls that had ignored the effect of Obamacare on that race. It’s also why Democratic officeholders across the nation have been begging Obama to do something to reassure voters that this isn’t as bad as everyone says.
It is that bad, though—and maybe even worse. “Try really hard for the next 60 seconds,” the old psychological game challenged us, “not to think about pink elephants.” The Obama team has a much harder assignment: “Try really hard,” they’re telling us, “not to think about the coverage, the co-pays, and the doctor you used to have. Try not to think about the president’s repeated reassurances that if you liked what you had before, “you can keep it. Period.”
Try really hard, for the next 60 seconds, not to think about that
Obama would be the “melanin president”, because that’s the chemical that insulates him from criticism.
“None of this will require the active opposition of Obamacare’s opponents. We’re talking instead about a built-in drip-drip-drip of Chinese water torture that, by its very nature, won’t let the issue go away. Every day, every week, every month of every year, millions of frustrated citizens will be reminded a few more times of what a bum deal they’ve inherited.”
When the Demoncrats passed obozocare I wondered why they thought what would happen would be good or even manageable. I couldn’t fathom what the hell they were thinking. They delayed implementation 3 years! So they KNEW at some level that it would anger voters...and THEN what? Welcome to “then”.
In the matter of the “Teflon” Mr. Reagan: As I recall that was a name applied to him in anger by a press that printed “revelation” after “revelation” and yet couldn’t bring him down. The revelations however were meaningful only in the fevered imaginations of hate-filled Leftists.
The big difference between now and 30 years ago, is that the people of today, as a whole, are remarkable more ignorant. They still see Obama as their savior and the driveby media reinforce that. None of these eye opening experiences will alter the perception of the over 50% that support Obama. We are outnumbered, pure and simple. I hate to say it, but Obama and his “team” have achieved what Hitler, Stalin, Mao and countless other progressives have been trying to achieve over the last 100 years or more.