The MEC even botches contrition. He looked even more flailing and desperate than he usually has lately. And he said some very silly things. The "fix" is not getting a very good reception. State insurance commissioners in Washington and Arkansas have already said no thanks. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners issued a statement basically saying "We don't think the MEC has any idea how close to impossible it would be to reverse course at this point."
Weaker by the day. And Americans aren't the only ones who notice, you can be sure.
Do you get some jollies over noticing weakness in others?
ReplyDeleteNo, I get fear for the fate of Western civilization
ReplyDeleteI am pretty sure The Daily Beast is the sort of website you love to hate, but even they are dissing the chief executive of our land. The Beast fears for the fate of liberalism itself:
ReplyDeleteHowever, it's not as if their opposition to making the thing work was unknown. And the website problems and the promise about no cancellations are Obama's fault, not theirs. He has probably about a year to go from being the ACA's Chamberlain to its Churchill, and he'd better take it more seriously than he's ever taken anything.
Read more at http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/15/can-obama-change.html
However, it's not as if their opposition to making the thing work was unknown. And the website problems and the promise about no cancellations are Obama's fault, not theirs. He has probably about a year to go from being the ACA's Chamberlain to its Churchill, and he'd better take it more seriously than he's ever taken anything.
LA Time editorial today also reamed the MEC a new one.
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