Posted on 10/26/2013 7:32:32 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama: GOP 'rooting' for ObamaCare failure By Elise Viebeck - 10/26/13 06:00 AM ET
President Obama blasted GOP opponents of his healthcare law as hypocrites after Republicans expressed concerns about the rocky rollout of HealthCare.gov.
In his weekly address, Obama suggested that the GOP's focus on the issue was in bad faith because Republicans have pushed for years to repeal, defund or dismantle ObamaCare.
Republicans "spent the last few years so obsessed with denying … people access to health insurance that they just shut down the government and threatened default over it," Obama said.
"It's well past the time for folks to stop rooting for [the law's] failure."
Obama's comments come after a tough week for the administration. HealthCare.gov, the online enrollment portal for ObamaCare coverage, remained mired in problems in its fourth week.
The rollout has drawn fire from Republicans and Democrats alike, including former members of the administration.
This week, Obama announced several steps to improve the system's functionality, including appointing former White House budget director Jeff Zients as a chief "fixer" for the site.
Federal health officials are also benefiting from a "tech surge" involving experts brought in to triage the sign-up process.
Republicans argue that the disastrous rollout of HealthCare.gov indicates that ObamaCare is unworkable and have promised tough oversight on the implementation stumbles.
Obama pushed back on Saturday, citing the law's more popular provisions and explaining the logic behind the insurance marketplaces.
The website "gathers insurers under one system to compete for your business," Obama said. "And that choice and competition have actually helped bring prices down."
Obama also described efforts to repair the enrollment process, urged frustrated users to try enrolling by telephone and vowed not to give up until the process is smooth.
"We're only a few weeks into a six-month open enrollment period, and everyone who wants insurance through the marketplace will get it," Obama said.
Hip-hip hooray! Obamacare go away! By golly he’s right.
The GOP does not have to actively do a thing.
Remember the good old days when democrats rooted for President George “Dubya” Bush to succeed?
Me neither.
But we don’t mind if the pricing is made available as soon as possible so people can see how Obama screwed them.
All real Americans want it to die
So, conservatives are responsible for Obamacare failure because we refuse to be suicidal lemmings? Let’s see if that pig will fly.
DOTUS.
Demagogue-in-chief.
The GOPe supports Bammy & his crony handlers, Big Time.
“See, if I add some chocolate syrup and almonds to this turd, people will eat it!”
Wishing “Obamacare would fail” is like wishing for gravity to fail, or wishing for math to fail. It doesn’t matter what one wishes, reality still will exist.
President Obama blasted GOP opponents of his healthcare law as hypocrites after Republicans expressed concerns about the rocky rollout of HealthCare.gov.
Who you labeling a hypocrite you lying SOB?
Besides the 2200 pages of destruction you are all in for, the fact that neither I nor any other Republican voted for it, is reason enough for us hypocrites to express our concerns about the law much less the rocky rollout. Rocky doesn’t begin to describe the disaster that many hope will sink of it’s own accord.
Just the GOP. Boy are you deluded. Its EVERY damn American who’s NOT EXEMPT from that 10,000 plus enslavement protocol that guarantees to put a noose around our neck that we didn’t read because you made it extremely long and full of enough legalese to make a persons eyes bleed after only 20 pages. We are not fooled by your deception. You are a liar and a traitor to the American people.
This man is a rabble-rouser.
Never before in history has a president so nakedly ginned up popular hatred against his political opposition.
It's not going to end well.
Is this the first time that Obama has actually made a true statement?
Bravo spok!!
Only an imbecile would ‘think’ that any faction has to root for failure of a demented scheme that was doomed to failure!
What a jackass this phony president is. He always orates (or a facsimile thereof) while wrapped in a dozen flags, or in front of a group of fellow imbeciles carefully arranged on a tiered platform.
If America wanted to show their lack of bias by electing a negro, why not one that is a patriotic American and a defender of the Constitution? This cretin couldn’t even pass a legitimate security clearance.
In short, this is America’s Enemy Number ONE!
he has no concept of how to be Presidential and certainly has no idea how to run a country.
Saying that the man has never ran even a hot dog stand and thanks to the no info voters out there we are seeing a country go to hell.
Where was an article like this when the Dims were not only rooting for failure in Iraq but actually trying to undermine our troops?
Yep, and this time Mommy’s not around to haul you off to Indonesia because all the kids are picking on you for being such a loser.
Sabotage? I don’t see that....by who? How?
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