Posted on 11/09/2013 10:25:40 AM PST by Kaslin
The president's passive-voice expression of vague regret was so half-assed and self-serving that conservatives can simply sit back and let the mainstream media tee off on its inadequacy. He's not sorry for lying repeatedly in furtherance of his political goals, and he's certainly not sorry that people are losing their coverage. His law required that outcome. His promise was an intentional lie. Let the MSM opprobrium flow:
The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza: "The lowest low of the Obama presidency."
National Journal's Ron Fournier:
I'm sorry, too, Mr. President...I'm sorry you campaigned for reelection on the famous false promise: "If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan. Period." I'm sorry your aides debated whether to tell the full truth (that people could keep their insurance only if it hadn't changed and if it met your standards) and decided instead to institutionalize the lie. I'm sorry that when Americans recognized the deception you tried to reinvent history: "What we said was you can keep it if it hasn't changed since the law passed." No, no, no, no, no—that's not what you guys said. I'm sorry you didn't trust Americans with the truth.
Former MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan:
I bought a catastrophic health policy for $170/mo when I left MSNBC. Obamacare cancelled the policy. New rate $600/mo. Thnx Mr. President! — Dylan Ratigan (@DylanRatigan) November 8, 2013
The Chicago Sun Times' Lynn Sweet:
Meanwhile, the website selling health insurance under Obamacare in Illinois and other states — Healthcare.gov — is still not fully functional and never has been since the Oct. 1 launch. A remarkable feature of Todd’s interview with Obama — whose hair is noticeably grayer — is the president’s inability to sincerely express empathy. I know he tried, but is that the best he’s got? Given that people are freaking out when they get a notice their policies are being dropped — a horrible, frustrating life experience.
Hotline's Josh Kraushaar:
With apology, Obama trying to buy time. Doesn't sound like a president confident that the website will be fixed by Nov 30. — Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) November 7, 2013
Just read the full transcript of the NBC interview w Obama. Aside from the half-mea culpa, was filled with excuses. — Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) November 7, 2013
Kraushaar isn't the only person who doubts Healthcare.gov will be fixed by the administration's own do-over deadline. Add Howard Dean to the list of skeptics, which includes numerous IT experts. Stories like this don't inspire much confidence either:
Today's "Operational Update on the Health Insurance Marketplace" was not especially good news: As capacity problems at the start of HealthCare.gov get fixed, tech workers are finding new capacity problems later in the application process -- ones that, up until now, they didn't know about. "Essentially what is happening is people are going through the entire process," Medicare spokeswoman Julie Bataille, who runs the daily call, told reporters. "As we have fixed certain pieces of functionality, like the account creation process, we're seeing volume go further down the application. We're identifying new issues that we need to be in a position to troubleshoot." That means that, as the HealthCare.gov team ticks items off its "punch list," it's also adding new ones that need to be addressed.
Welcome to 404 error whack-a-mole hell. Obama's tech surge czar has confirmed these obstacles and acknowledges that the site isn't even close to being fixed. Uh oh. The public is growing restless. Bear in mind that these new numbers from Pew are among adults, a pool that tends to skew more pro-Democrat than registered or likely voters:
That disgusting jerk and his coven of Leftists are high-fiving because they lied well enough about ObamaCare and Benghazi to win his second term so they can finish destroying America. What’s so surprising about that?
Many politicians are functional psychopaths. A lack of genuine empathy and identification with others is a prime feature of psychopathy:
“. . .Lacking empathy and close attachments with others, disdain of close attachments, use of cruelty to gain empowerment, exploitative tendencies, defiance of authority, and destructive excitement seeking. . .”
His job approval is about 40% overall? Remember, that his rate of approval among blacks, Latinos, minorities in general is still very high, from what I hear. So, his job approval rating among whites must be in the 20s. Which is hitting his base of support among the liberals who will never abandon him.
It sounds to me like only his core supporters among minorities and liberals are still with him.
So obviously Obama had to lie before he could tell the truth. And what exactly is that truth ? Who the heck knows.
It sounds to me like only his core supporters among minorities and liberals are still with him.
Good point! The way I heard it was that each party will always get no less than 40% of the vote in a presidential election, and the remaining 20% is what the candidates are fighting for. Zer0's down to the bottom of the barrel, with scraping soon to commence.
Michelle Obama’s friend works for an incompetent software firm in Canada. They gave the job to that company, even though that company had failed to deliver a workable product on Canadian government contracts. Not only that they didn’t even do a competitive bid. They gave the contract to that company as a “sole source” procurement, though there was no basis to do so. And they said thousands of times more than any other firm would have charged them. Obama is out to break the U.S. bank and empty her coffers and give the money to his Muslim Brotherhood supporting cronies.
And they paid thousands of times more than any other firm would have charged them.
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