Posted on 02/01/2014 7:18:56 PM PST by SeekAndFind
“We’ve got to take ownership that we messed up,” former White House adviser Lanny Davis told Megyn Kelly last night, “and Nancy Pelosi should say that — we messed up.” Bill Clinton’s former aide and counsel in the impeachment fight joked at the beginning of this clip that he’d hoped for a fun segment with Kelly, but that Pelosi’s refusal to take responsibility for the consequences of the bill she shoved down the throats of Americans “is painful.” Was it ever:
“Nancy Pelosi should say that — we messed up…We have to take ownership,” Davis said, indicating that admitting fault is the first step to fixing the Affordable Care Act.
He added that the private sector should have had more of a role in developing HealthCare.Gov, which debuted Oct. 1 with significant glitches.
“We screwed up,” Davis said, advising Pelosi that she should admit that Democrats relied too heavily on the government to set up ObamaCare.
Actually, the problem wasn’t that there was too little involvement from the private sector; it’s that it didn’t belong in the federal government in the first place. But even apart from that, the site was built by the private sector, with the full cooperation of private insurers who hoped to score big off of a historic government mandate that forced Americans to participate in a command economy. The problem was that the people who command that economy are singularly unqualified for the job, as most if not all of them have done little but public-sector work for the majority of their lives. The incompetent management of this system began in the bid process and escalated throughout the project-management phase, and was obvious by the increasingly arbitrary ways in which regulations and statutes were applied and enforced.
That’s what is painful to Davis, who cheers government-controlled universal health care as the appetizer to his advice to Pelosi. Davis says it could have been accomplished through distributed authority in the private sector, but that’s never been the point of Democratic health-care policy. It’s always been about control and power, and dictating outcomes to insurers, providers, and consumers. We tried it, and now we see why the public sector should be limited to appropriate regulatory functions and law enforcement, and private economies left to voluntary association and the private sector.
It’s hard for narcissists to admit they aren’t perfect.
What about the rest of the democrats who imposed it on us?
I don’t want an apology, I want them all imprisoned.
Nazi Pelosi will have to first watch the video to find out what’s in it. Then Barry Hillary, and Eric can throw the video maker in prison.
R.I.H. Pelosi
Apologize for what? SanFranNan likes things getting shoved down throats, me thinks.
Lanny, you above all people should understand that you are dealing with hard core Marxists here. They don’t apologize or take responsibility for ANYTHING.
Davis just gave Republicans a golden egg. Hopefully the GOPe won’t muck up this gift.
I don’t need any apology from Nancy on this, real or fake. All I ask from the Obama acolytes is an admission that they are disorganized and screwed up royally. I then want a Plan Of Correction, meaning immediate repeal of this terrible illegal law. Remove the curse, stop the Democrats War on America!
The day Pelosi apologizes for anything will be the day that the earth stops spinning. Or the day that the pope converts to Islam. Or, the day Jesus Christ comes back and says it’s all a big joke. Or the day the oceans dry up.
Yeah, Nancy Pelosi will never apologize for her lies, her arrogance and her hatred of the American People
You think they would repeal the law? What are you smoking?
Advice on coming clean from Lanny Davis, one of the most despicable and slimiest of the many slimy Clinton apologists, protectors and cover up specialists.
For some reason Sean Hannity seems to like the guy...
Some of the Dems up for re-election are finally having
‘second-second thoughts’ about this Most Wonderful Bill. Many unions members not on a high fixed salary are starting to feel the sharp bites of this law, gouging into their wallets, gorging on all manner of new and unwanted rules that bring higher premiums and unknown doctors.
Stay tuned. If there is going to be a Dem Mutiny, where THEY will start openly hating on this bill, we should be seeing this by August or September. You may be in for a pleasant (schadenfreude-type) surprise.
And a regular guest on the Michael Medved show, along with John McCain.
Agreed. Anything less than total annihilation of your enemy is unacceptable.
You could be right. But Obama has the goods on every member of Congress. He will have his minions use blackmail on a staggering scale to try to keep the bill in place.
I keep encouraging and reminding everybody that they must sign up for Obamacare. It is all abstract until they begin seeing the dollar signs.
Yep.
Furthermore, an apology from someone who isn’t sorry doesn’t mean anything.
These people are criminals plain and simple.
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