[conservatism_IS_compassion]

For Democrats success looks like whatever they want success to look like because they can change the measuring stick anytime they want to.

Enter the Census Bureau to uncook the books to no longer exaggerate the number of uninsured - viola, instant reduction in the uninsured!!

The Republicans need to start right now, declaring that the new estimate of the number of uninsured will be lower - and emphasizing that it will not be because the true number of uninsured will be lower than before - only that all prior estimates on the number of uninsured were systematic exaggerations which never bore any relation to reality.

Actually, the pitch should be made in the opposite order:

1. the past statistics were a fraudulent sales pitch for ACA, and

2. the new statistics will be lower, not because of any real reduction in uninsured, but only because previously the number of uninsured was systematically exaggerated.

[Pontiac]

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."

- Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review