Who knew so many of them were Democrats?
“If the problems are intense as they are this morning, then maybe we would have to consider a short delay in terms of the individual mandate,” New Jersey Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell, told Yahoo News on Wednesday….Pascrell joins Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and Sens. Jean Shahaan and Joe Manchin in expressing support for extended enrollment and individual mandate deadlines.
Why isn’t Harry Reid denouncing these terrorists, these people trying to sabotage settled law?
[Update a cou0ple minutes later]
Joe Manchin is an anarchist Democrat who hates poor people and wants them to be sick:
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is burnishing his “blue dog” credentials and working on a bill that would delay Obamacare’s mandate by a year.
What a monster.
“Why isn’t Harry Reid denouncing these terrorists, these people trying to sabotage settled law?”
Even more startlingly (/sarc) , why isn’t Jim?
I hereby denounce Manchin, Pascrell, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and my own Sen. Jeanne Shaheen for overreacting to the Healthcare.gov problems. There’s no need to delay the individual mandate across the board, and certainly no reason to do so now. If we get to March and there are still exchanges that aren’t working, it would make sense to delay the mandate for just the people in those states. There’s no reason to delay it before then, and no reason to delay it at all in states with functioning exchanges.
And for whatever it’s worth, Reid’s “terrorist” and “anarchist” remarks weren’t aimed at people who think the problems with the exchanges justify a delay in the individual mandate. They were aimed at people who threatened — before the exchanges even opened — to hit the debt ceiling and blow up the economy if the mandate wasn’t delayed. See if you can spot the distinction.
I’m going to make some popcorn and watch Capt. Obama crash into that iceberg.
“If we get to March and there are still exchanges that aren’t working, it would make sense to delay the mandate for just the people in those states.”
Will Obama go to congress to change the law or will he unilaterally declare it waved in contravention of the law?
“And for whatever it’s worth, Reid’s “terrorist” and “anarchist” remarks ”
Lets deconstruct this. During the shutdown you said the actions of the Obama administration were intended to cause pain, suffering, and inconvenience to the populace. How about we call them innocent civilians. What do you call a politician who’s stated policy purpose is to cause innocent civilians pain and suffering in order to achieve a political goal? Terrorist.
You would probably argue that Republican policies will hurt people and I might agree in some circumstances. There are always unintended consequences. And I could rattle off a list of Democrat policies that hurt people. But Republicans didn’t set out a policy with the goal of hurting people. Can you see the distinction?
“They were aimed at people who threatened… to hit the debt ceiling and blow up the economy if the mandate wasn’t delayed.”
No one threatened to blow up the economy. Democrats predicted apocalypse but they always do. They predicted apocalypse if a shutdown happened and it turns out no one even noticed except for senior citizens trying to visit their war memorials before they died.
Democrats also share some of them blame for the shutdown and they would not compromise and agree to a delay or anything else. Now some Democrats are asking for a delay. Why did we even go through the shutdown theatre if Obama and the Democrats will delay the mandate anyway? But you are sticking with and defending the terrorist attack anyway. Classy.
All the state with functioning exchanges? Are there any?
Even states that created their own sites have all sorts of trouble due to backend integration with Fed databases. Oregon for example built their own site, and so far has a nice, round number of enrollments via it. Zero. They have, however, managed to process 36 paper enrollments, by hand.
We are all the Taliban now. I wonder how Obama will punish Democrats in congress and the media who point out his flaws. You know President Thin Skin is freaking out and looking for some butts to kick. Not anyone responsible for any of the recent debacles but anyone who dares point out the abject failure.