What did you expect him to say?
[He was thinking no one would recognize him without his hot chocolate and onesies.]
Posted on 04/10/2014 8:38:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Obamacare has won. And that's why Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius can resign.
Calls for Sebelius's resignation were almost constant after Obamacare's catastrophic launch. The problem wasn't just that Sebelius had presided over the construction of a fantastically expensive web site that flatly didn't work. It was that she didn't know healthcare.gov was going to instantly, systemically fail. And so the White House didn't know that healthcare.gov was going to instantly, systemically fail. The demands that Sebelius to step down — or be fired — were as deafening inside the building as outside of it.
But President Obama refused. As National Journal's Major Garrett reported, Obama believes that "scaring people with a ceremonial firing deepens fear, turns allies against one another, makes them risk-averse, and saps productivity." Moreover, there was too much to be done to fire one of the few people who knew how to finish the job. Sebelius would stay. The White House wouldn't panic in ways that made it harder to save the law.
The evidence has piled up in recent weeks that the strategy worked. Obamacare's first year, despite a truly horrific start, was a success. More than 7 million people look to have signed up for health insurance through the exchanges. Millions more have signed up through Medicaid. And millions beyond that have signed up for insurance through their employers.
Healthcare.gov isn't perfect, but it works. We don't yet know how many young people signed up in March, but it's clear that there are enough of them to keep premiums stable in 2015. It's clear that insurers are going to stick with the program in 2015, and compete hard to sign up next year's wave of young, healthy applicants.
Even Republicans committed to the law's repeal are admitting that the law is back on its expected track. "The rollout made Obamacare's collapse seem like a possibility," wrote Ramesh Ponnuru at Bloomberg View. But "now that it's resolved, the debate continues basically along the same lines that everyone expected a year ago. The law will continue to be implemented, with the administration making whatever revisions it thinks necessary."
The White House says Sebelius notified the President in March that "she felt confident in the trajectory for enrollment and implementation," and that once open enrollment ended, "it would be the right time to transition the Department to new leadership."
In other words, the law has won its survival. The Obama administration can exhale. Personnel changes can be made. A new team — led by Office of Management and Budget Director Sylvia Matthews Burwell, who the White House calls a proven manager— can be brought in to continue to improve the law. And Sebelius can leave with her head held high. She can leave with the law she helped build looking, shockingly, like a success.
I was sure this was satire until I saw Ezra Klein.
LOL!
What did you expect him to say?
[He was thinking no one would recognize him without his hot chocolate and onesies.]
Democrats don’t believe in satire. If it was any one but Klein, it would be a laugh riot!
Her having to leave, means the numbers of signups is closer to one million than the seven million claimed.
Soon Carney will saying they don’t understand how she could be so far off and how sad it is they cannot question her about it.
Yeah, she’ll be on vacation in Patagonia or Siberia.
Or, the administration had Kathleen agree to stay for six months so it wouldn't look like she was fleeing a debacle. IOW, it's all about managing the "optics".
So in the end, all it took for obamacare to win, was to fabricate compliant enrollment numbers. They knew that so-called journalists would run interference against doubters and would assist in propagating the lie.
The choir may be lapping it up, but we ‘comrades’ seated in the pews have our mouths open or are covering our mouths to keep from laughing.
This stuff is risible. We non-Democrat Inner Party stalwarts don’t have the ability to ‘double-think’ a silk purse from this sow’s ear.
She is not leaving a winner since the libs do not believe in that. She is leaving with a participation ribbon.
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” Well, when he wrote “stable,” he meant “stable” as in they are going to continue to climb at an extraordinary rate, just like they already have been climbing - you know, like this: “The premiums are in a stable, steep climb!””
Stable because that is where you can find piles of horse crap
That sounds about right too!
Obamacare is bound to collapse, just as Communism was. But like Communism, it needs a little help.
Obamacare will be re-launched by the new secretary. Democrats who are in trouble get a scapegoat they can point to and blame for the mess. Obama gets a mulligan.
As much as FReepers will never admit it, the best thing would have been for Sebelius to remain the face of Obamacare, a failure running a failed program. Now, they get to start all over from scratch. Anyone who has worked in the corporate world will recognize this pattern instantly. Or, as the Who put it:
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
Pretty much lib Jewish northern journalists circle jerk
They did the same thing for Kerry in 2004 at AL Frankens crib on Central Park West
Same crew more or less
A few token goy thrown in for seasoning to the soup
Ezra is a delusional pissant.
She resigned because the White House is facing a tsunami in November and they are jettisoning anything they can to survive it.
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