And us Tea Party types would appreciate some acknowledgement of what we were trying to do last summer:
Mr. Obama's actions are as damning about ObamaCare as anything Senator Ted Cruz has said, and they implicitly confirm that the law is quarter-baked and harmful. Mr. Obama is doing through executive fiat what Republicans shut down the government to get him to do.***
The President declared at his Friday press conference that the exemptions "don't go to the core of the law," but in fact they belong to his larger pattern of suspending the law on his own administrative whim. Earlier this month he ordered insurers to backdate policies to compensate for the federal exchange meltdown, and before that HHS declared that it would not enforce for a year the mandates responsible for policy cancellations. Mr. Obama's team has also by fiat abandoned the small-business exchanges, delayed the employer mandate and scaled back income verification.
To employ one of Cass Sunstein's favorite terms, we just need to nudge the MEC to go that last little step and make the death of his signature "achievement" official.
While we're at it, let's repeal Florida unemployment law and do not reelect and perhaps impeach Tea Party darling Rick Scott.
ReplyDeleteThe state switched over the new $63 million system in October and since that time there has been a steady stream of complaints and media reports about unemployed Floridians frustrated at their ability to process claims, or to get anyone on the phone to help them. The problems with the system are also becoming a political headache for Gov. Rick Scott. Scott has been shown on television brushing aside questions from reporters about the troubled system. During a Friday appearance in Orlando, Scott told local television stations that Deloitte was being held “accountable” and was having money held back because company officials “have not done their job.”
Former Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running against Scott, called it “unbelievable” that the Scott administration has not answered questions about problems with the system until Friday.
“This is a failure of leadership, a failure to acknowledge a problem and a failure to act until thousands of Floridians have suffered,” Crist said in a statement.
But Ricky's crafty, he's withholding payment to the computer network developer, placing the blame there. I thought Tea Party darlings didn't shift blame.
Read more at Tallahasse Democrat 12/22/13, p. 3A
Think hard about this: Charlie Crist would be the alternative.
ReplyDeleteIf this were still the recognizable United States and we had a great president whose only major transgression was the bureaucratic hose-up of a major government program, we would hold him to account for that, but it wouldn't trigger overall outrage and a desire to oust him.
ReplyDeleteOf course I'm upset over the failure to implement Obamacare. That still does not mean it can't be fixed, or that the vendors implementing it can't be held responsible, as Rick Scott has demonstrated.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, the tan man's a huge phony. I liked Scott's female opposition back in 2010, Alex Sink, but Big Money is keeping her out of this upcoming race.
ReplyDeleteI do think that O should have taken the Pubs up on their offer to delay it for a year, because that might have saved the act. As it is it appears likely that it will be repealed by the time he leaves office, there's simply too many way too pissed off now to save it.
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