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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

NY TIMES LWNJ: OBAMACARE IS...LIKE BENGHAZI?



Apparently Paul Krugman has been drinking from the same batch of Kool-aid as Debbie Wasserman Schultz...

 Krugman: ObamaCare Becoming 'Benghazi-Type Affair' that 'Nobody Else Cares About' but GOP
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman informed his audience on Tuesday that the problem-plagued Affordable Care Act has turned a corner. Based on "upbeat" statements from the White House and a shift in the media's coverage of the implementation of the ACA, Krugman sees the law's roll-out evolving from a failure into an unmitigated success.
Krugman added that the problems will continue, but not in their present form. "Obamacare will turn into a Benghazi-type affair where Republicans are screaming about a scandal nobody else cares about," Krugman predicts.
"White House officials are sounding increasingly upbeat," Krugman wrote on Tuesday, linking to a Washington Post summary of Tuesday's update from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. "They could be deluded or spinning; but after what happened two months ago one suspects that the last thing they want is to inflate expectations unduly."
He goes on to cite a story broadcast on CNN on Tuesday which focused on winners and losers as a result of the new law. Krugman, like Mediaite's Tommy Christopher, found the report to be lopsidedly focused on people who would be better off under the health care reform law.
"At this rate, the whole horrors-of-Obamacare meme will be gone in weeks, not months," Krugman declares. "But the GOP echo chamber won’t be able to let it go."
But unlike the no-limit Kool-aid addicts in the Establishment Media, those Democrats who actually have to deal with political ramifications and other reality-based problems are not nearly as clueless confident:
Democratic leaders claim the bungled launch of Obamacare is just the latest news sensation — a media-stirred tempest that looks in the heat of the moment like it could upend the midterm election, but ends up fizzling well before voters head to the polls.
Some party strategists say they're in denial.
And that perceived gap between party spin and facts on the ground is fueling worries that the White House and Democratic higher-ups aren't taking the possible electoral blowback seriously enough or doing enough to shield their candidates. Democratic contenders in the toughest races are distinctly less convinced that Obamacare will fade as an election-year issue — and they can't afford to just cross their fingers that things get ironed out or that Republicans revert to political hara-kiri.
Wait, wait, wait!  Hara-kiri?  Did somebody just commit the hate crime of "cultural appropriation?"  But I digress...
"We're trying to deny what everyone knows is happening," said one Democratic pollster who is a veteran of competitive congressional races. "Anybody who is halfway intelligent knows this is a big...problem for us. It's impossible not to see. We can try to hide our heads in the sand and pretend it's not a problem, but it is."
Sadly, I'm afraid that "halfway intelligent" is still too high a bar for the vast majority of low-info types who insist on voting against their interests by supporting less-than-halfway-intelligent Dim-o-crats like Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Steny Hoyer.

 Apparently the Regime has a name for those party aparatchiks guilty of the doubleplusungood thoughtcrime of being nervous about the political fallout of massive ObamaCare fail: They are "bed-wetters."
There's a term of art that the Obama White House uses to describe its neurotic supporters who instantly race to the worst-case scenario: They are known as "bed-wetters." Two months into the dysfunctional life of healthcare.gov, however, that seems a perfectly appropriate physiological reaction.
Liberalism has spent the better part of the past century attempting to prove that it could competently and responsibly extend the state into new reaches of American life. With the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, the administration has badly injured that cause, confirming the worst slurs against the federal government. It has stifled bad news and fudged promises; it has failed to translate complex mechanisms of policy into plain English; it can't even launch a damn website. What's more, nobody responsible for the debacle has lost a job or suffered a demotion. Over time, the Affordable Care Act's technical difficulties can be repaired. Reversing the initial impressions of government ineptitude won't be so easy.
Therefore the Kool-aid Coalition of the Willing is required to keep calm and carry on by continuing to search for the elusive ObamaCare success story...

 Via Guy Benson: I'll leave you with lefties' latest coping mechanism: Finding individual people who haven't been harmed by Obamacare. Via the crowd that shrugs off millions of cases as "anecdotes:"
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