Posted on 11/13/2013 10:24:28 AM PST by jimbo123
House Democrats emerged from a closed-door caucus meeting Wednesday morning worn thin from arguing with White House officials over the bumpy rollout of the Affordable Care Act.
One source in the room described Democratic lawmakers from across the political spectrum — from moderates in vulnerable districts to progressives in safe seats — as frustrated with the administration in equal measure.
They pushed David Simas, the White House deputy senior adviser for communications and strategy, to account for the glitches on the enrollment website and for President Barack Obama’s unfulfilled promise to Americans that if they liked their health insurance policies, they could keep them, regardless of what changes would be ushered in by the new health care law.
“I think in diplomatic terms we had a frank discussion,” Rep. Jim Costa, D-Calif., said. “I think there was a lot of frustration and in some cases anger vented towards the White House for their continued ham-fisted approach. It’s not just their credibility that’s on the line, but it’s our credibility.”
“Why can’t we call people who know how to do these things, who do it for corporate America, and say, ‘We have a website, fix it,’” said Rep. José E. Serrano, D-N.Y. “Maybe I’m being simplistic, but can’t we call Bill Gates up and say, ‘Take care of this?’ Or go to a college dorm and say, ‘You guys, you invented Yahoo, can you take care of this?’
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What a joke. They all had the opportunity to read the bill and they all had the opportunity to vote on amendments to the bill that addressed this issue.
What a pathetic show.
Let me be the first to predict....
“I was for Obamacare before I was against it.” - John F’n Kerry, who served in Vietnam.
I love the smell of panic in the cloak room....
I'm not convinced all of them can read. Nancy Pelosi made this apparent when she screeched, "We need to pass it to find out what's in it!" She obviously needs someone to read it to her.
Don`t worry, Stupid Party aka GOP to the rescue !
They`l pass laws that repair the marxist democrat ACA.
......Bill Clinton urged Obama to honor his oft-repeated “you can keep your health plan" promise, and paranoid endangered congressional Dems added their scared voices in support......
INCONVENIENT FACTOIDS---Dems arrogantly passed Boobamba/Care, without reading it, in the middle of the night, on Christmas Eve, without a single Republican vote, when nobody wanted it. Dims own it, lock, stock, and its historic, career-wrecking flopolas.
THE COLLAPSE OF LIBERALISM DRAWS NEAR We the people, who said "no way O/Care," are watching Dims squirm, and fight each other, while destroying their careers, and the nasty frickin' Dim party.
Oh, happy day.
"'14 is coming, our poll numbers are crashing, and our asses are on a hot seat."
The only reason the website doesn’t work is because Obama wanted to hide the rates until you registered so people wouldn’t get sticker shock.
Where were they when Cruz explained all this?
Pray America is Waking Up
And by blindly following their Dear Leader and ramming this down our throats on straight party line votes, these a-holes made it crystal clear that this disaster is 110% Democrat.
And the hits just keep on coming!
Changing Tagline.
And admit that the free market and capitalist economic model works vs. a gubmint solution? Not a chance Jose Serrano, Douche-N.Y.
Man, this baby was their PRIDE and joy. With emphasis on PRIDE.
As I keep saying until I am blue in the face, the Democrat party has from antebellum times given itself to degradation of humanity, all in the name of some expediency. Chattel slavery to Jim Crow to welfare bribes to abortion to buggery to “gay marriage” ... and now to grab health care. The demon that drove them along kept telling them that they were entitled to do this, that there was no God (or a fabricated God that cared nothing about full-on freedom) to answer to.
And God very well knew what this game was! And set up a scenario where their arrogance finally would bite off more than it could chew.
We will look back at Obamacare in our history books, and wonder how humans could ever be such doofuses. Then if the Lord does not yet come, we will probably be such doofuses again. The GOP has part of the fault here. It did withhold all its votes from this thing (which was good) but if still sane it should have had proverbial conniption fits over such an absurd thing.
Those guys would say to ditch the whole plan, once they read it.
Fever pitch? I’ll believe that when a Democrat leaps from the dome of the Capitol building...House or Senate; I’m not choosy.
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