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LAMBRO: Blaming others for Obamacare - The president switches gears from apology to attack
Washington Times ^ | Nov 28, 2013 | By Donald Lambro

Posted on 12/01/2013 11:26:09 AM PST by Jim Robinson

Soon after President Obama told the White House press corps he was solely responsible for the botched Obamacare rollout, he decided to shift part of the blame onto Republicans.

A mea culpa can be hard to deliver in public when you are the kind of politician who thinks he never makes mistakes and rarely if ever apologizes for anything that went wrong. Mr. Obama’s apologies have a brief shelf life, and so a few days later, they had reached their expiration date.

At a gathering of business executives on Nov. 19, the president concluded that he had done enough groveling over his utterly false claim that “if you like your health insurance policy, you can keep it” and went on the political attack.

Somehow, he decided the Republicans in Congress were partly to blame for the bungled mess that he and his administration had created and that it wasn’t all his fault. He also said the broken, online, sign-up system was in the process of being fixed and would be up and running at full throttle by the end of November. That doesn’t seem to be the case entirely.

Then he turned on the Republicans with a vengeance. He suggested that their intransigent political opposition had inhibited the law’s implementation. “One of the problems we’ve had is one side of Capitol Hill is invested in its failure,” he told the chief financial officers at The Wall Street Journal's CEO Council meeting in Washington last week.

He also suggested the Republicans’ “ideological resistance to the idea of dealing with the uninsured and people with pre-existing conditions” was also a factor in what went wrong.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; obamacare
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1 posted on 12/01/2013 11:26:09 AM PST by Jim Robinson
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Arrest them. In fact, arrest all of Congress.


2 posted on 12/01/2013 11:29:13 AM PST by DownInFlames
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To: Jim Robinson

Obama-— lazy, stupid, never accepting responsibility. One of the first things you teach your children is to accept responsibility


3 posted on 12/01/2013 11:29:20 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Jim Robinson

Old Joe Stalin did similar things.
Only, people got shot after he switched to blaming others.


4 posted on 12/01/2013 11:29:21 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Jim Robinson

This clown won’t take responsibility for anything except for what the Navy SEALs do. Everything else is either Bush’s fault, the Republicans’ fault or the TEA Party’s fault. What a slug.


5 posted on 12/01/2013 11:31:28 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Dude! Where's my health insurance policy?)
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To: dennisw

One of the first things you teach your children is to accept responsibility.
In his household there was no father and his mother was looking out looking to date immigrants from foreign lands so where oh where does he learn responsibility?


6 posted on 12/01/2013 11:33:54 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Darksheare

That comes later.


7 posted on 12/01/2013 11:33:57 AM PST by rdcbn
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To: Jim Robinson
Uhhh .. bozo ... if it's a law ... it's IN effect.

No one can "inhibit" a law.

PLEASE, Pubbies ... frikkin' start nailing these guys !!!

8 posted on 12/01/2013 11:35:16 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: Jim Robinson

If there had been any real men in that room they would have all gotten up and walked out.


9 posted on 12/01/2013 11:35:54 AM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: Jim Robinson

It’s never a narcissists fault.


10 posted on 12/01/2013 11:36:07 AM PST by Old Yeller (Obama: A dark spot in this country's history.)
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To: VerySadAmerican

or thrown their shoes.


11 posted on 12/01/2013 11:36:52 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: ronnie raygun

Same as Clinton, Obama grew up in a female dominated household. Dominated by his mother or grandmother


12 posted on 12/01/2013 11:37:57 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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Hey, he took full responsibility for telling you it was somebody else’s fault - what more do you want?


13 posted on 12/01/2013 11:38:01 AM PST by Hegemony Cricket (The emperor < still > has no pedigree.)
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To: knarf

OH, that would have been fantastic! And the world would have gotten the message. Every muslim in the world would have been complaining while at the same time admitting he’s a muslim.


14 posted on 12/01/2013 11:39:25 AM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: Darksheare

it’s early yet...


15 posted on 12/01/2013 11:43:02 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: dennisw
Obama-— lazy, stupid, never accepting responsibility. One of the first things you teach your children is to accept responsibility


Don't complain.

ObamaCare was passed with the explicit intent to fail and destroy the health care system as we know it and to take the economy down along with it.

The Obama Administration is too corrupt, lay and incompetent to implement the plan to pull this off and things are back firing on them.

This is a good thing.

Nobody believes Obama’s lies, support for ObamaCare is all about making sure those will be getting the freebies outnumber the poor schmucks who have to have their incomes drained to pay for this S**t sandwich.

This is the fundamental drawback of the whole web site concept and the primary reason it will fail whether it eventually ever works or does not work.

The moochers looking for freebies are too ignorant and lazy to sign in and navigate the web site to register to get their freebies - hence the “Navigators” paid to do it for them.

16 posted on 12/01/2013 11:43:15 AM PST by rdcbn
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17 posted on 12/01/2013 11:47:04 AM PST by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: Jim Robinson

0blamo always the same-O!


18 posted on 12/01/2013 11:47:17 AM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished.)
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To: Jim Robinson
rebound play rimshot off the polls:

the average foggy minded liberal on the street actually believes that Obama means well but the evil republicans wont let him do anything good

The liberal believes that every one of Obamas failures is the Republicans fault, not kidding, I get this from grown men at work in discussions about obamacare, when I ask "well what have the evil republicans blocked ", they dont have an answer but choose to believe it anyway

19 posted on 12/01/2013 11:47:58 AM PST by KTM rider
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He’s pissed because the GOP won’t openly help him ruin the country.


20 posted on 12/01/2013 11:56:32 AM PST by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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