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Angry Dem Aide on Obamacare Roll-out: The White House "S--- the Bed"
Townhall.com ^ | December 6, 2013 | Guy Benson

Posted on 12/06/2013 8:09:08 AM PST by Kaslin

Friendly fire from antsy Democrats:


Anger among Democrats over the rollout of ObamaCare is deep. The third aide, who works for a senator up for reelection in 2014, said the White House had “s--t the bed.” Now, the staffer said, the president’s sinking approval ratings are an additional problem. “Everyone recognizes that our electoral process is tied to the president’s standings,” the aide said. “I think it’s in everyone’s best interest to get the site working again.” During one recent caucus meeting, a few senators grumbled while McDonough sought to ease their discomfort. And one senator stood up and asked for a political point of contact at the White House. “No one really knows who to turn to over there anymore,” one Senate staffer explained. “No one knows who handles what. I think that’s part of the problem.”


Maybe this unnamed source is unusually cheesed off with the president because DC's exchange website broke down for Congressional staffers yesterday. In any case, Team Blue is deeply invested in the fallacy that once the tech issues get cleared up, Obamacare will magically rebound -- or at least fade as an issue. This is delusional. Republicans didn't run against Obamacare (and win) in 2010 based on dire predictions that Healthcare.gov would be a humiliating technological basketcase. That self-inflicted wound is political gravy for the GOP. They turned the public against the law by sounding the alarm that Obamacare would cost too much, dump people from their coverage, limit access to care, and raise premiums -- all of which were dismissed as vicious lies and smears by the law's backers. Oops. The website will get fixed eventually, although not before more awful snafus and failures harm a lot of people. But once that credibility-destroying chapter is finally over, the unfixable substance of the law will remain in place. A functioning website won't help Obamacare when premiums increase again next year, or when millions more Americans lose their existing coverage. If anything, Democrats are still supplying Republicans with fresh ammo for future use. Here's a CBS News clip from last week featuring several bytes of Jay Carney still assuring consumers on the employer-based market that they have nothing to worry about (scroll ahead to 1:30):

CBS: ObamaCare Hiking Costs For Employers, Forcing Them To Drop Coverage For Workers

Come next year, this betray will scorch massive swath of the population. What new feeble spin will Harry Reid invent to try to explain that away? What will Democrats tell people like Joel Lund and his family:


Health Insurance Costs Nearly Double For Boise Man

"We're going to go from paying about $770 a month, which we were paying up until October, to about $1300. I don't see how that helped. From an emotional point of view, I don't think you can really prepare yourself for it. The unbelievable complexity of it. The lack of transparency of it. The horrific surprises."


Don't miss the interview near the end of the report with an insurance broker who says Lund's experience is pretty commonplace among her clients. "Anecdotes!" Unlike ordinary people like this, of course.


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1 posted on 12/06/2013 8:09:08 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Keep’n it classy on 1600


2 posted on 12/06/2013 8:10:33 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Kaslin
"If you like the S--- in your bed, you can keep it."

3 posted on 12/06/2013 8:10:47 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Kaslin

The libs are really in to a defecation fetish...MSNBC’s Bashir, unnamed White House aides.


4 posted on 12/06/2013 8:11:15 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Kaslin

Amazing how this building keeps taking on human behaviors...


5 posted on 12/06/2013 8:12:29 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Kaslin

So what if they get the website working?

Then more people will know for certain that they’re selling (at gunpoint) a really bad product.

Which is better for us conservatives? That the 0bammunists be associated with a bad website, or a bad product “sold” on a formerly bad website?


6 posted on 12/06/2013 8:12:54 AM PST by NorthMountain
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To: Kaslin

He is, has been and will always be, “The Elephant in the Room”. Liar in chief has taken down the Dem chances wholesale, Everything they say will be measured against his outrageous lying and it will be held against them. They know it.


7 posted on 12/06/2013 8:13:15 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Kaslin

Even with all the waivers, subsidies, and deadline extensions it still looks like a Death Star for Democrats.

God bless America!


8 posted on 12/06/2013 8:13:50 AM PST by nascarnation (Wish everyone see a "Gay Kwanzaa")
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To: NorthMountain

I just read this morning that they need 40% of the signups to be from the young invincibles,
or this thing doesn’t have a prayer.

BO gave a speech imploring the “youth” that it was a civic duty to sign up and pay for something they don’t want or need.


9 posted on 12/06/2013 8:15:12 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Don Corleone

It’s not the “elephant in the room” that’s the problem,

it’s the JACKASS.


10 posted on 12/06/2013 8:15:43 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Kaslin

Obamacare . . . we told you so . . . idiots


11 posted on 12/06/2013 8:16:07 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Obamacare: We told you so)
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To: Kaslin

No one is really in charge, so no one’s guilty.

Thus there is no leadership.

Obamacare is going to get WAY worse in January when people actually show up at the doctor’s.


12 posted on 12/06/2013 8:18:47 AM PST by struggle
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To: Don Corleone
"“The Elephant in the Room”."

More like the Jackass in the Choom.

13 posted on 12/06/2013 8:19:15 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Kaslin

This is a tremendous opportunity for the Republican party who might still blow it all to hell.

Obama has clearly shown that he doesn’t give a damn about the political prospects of his fellow Democrats. The fact that “Organizing For Action” even exists speaks volumes about the priorities of Obama and his puppet-masters. The Affordable Care Act is the result of decades of Progressive maneuvering and they won’t let it go no matter what. Massive Democrat defeats in the midterms are just a minor bump in the road.

The only hope is to have enough Republicans and angry Democrats in the House and Senate after 2014 to impeach and convict.


14 posted on 12/06/2013 8:20:03 AM PST by Junk Silver
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To: Kaslin

These idiots ought to know by now that it is all about Barry and his legacy. He simply does not have the time for such trivial things as their re-elections and the future viability of the Democrat party.


15 posted on 12/06/2013 8:20:05 AM PST by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Kaslin
No, NO, NO..

You Democrats don't get off this easy. ALL DEMOCRATS supported this monster. No Republicans did...

It is all on the DEMOCRATS... not just Obama...

16 posted on 12/06/2013 8:20:39 AM PST by 11th Commandment (http://www.thirty-thousand.org/)
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To: struggle

“No one is really in charge, so no one’s guilty.”

This is what is called, leading from the bath house.


17 posted on 12/06/2013 8:21:10 AM PST by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

I want the bumper sticker...


18 posted on 12/06/2013 8:21:12 AM PST by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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To: Kaslin

No surprise there.
Obama has always been the turd in the punchbowl.


19 posted on 12/06/2013 8:22:35 AM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: Adder

We are out of stock for Xmas . . all that’s left in inventory is Johnny Edwards: “The War on Terror is just a bumper sticker”


20 posted on 12/06/2013 8:23:01 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Obamacare: We told you so)
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