Jonah Goldberg savors…
…the sweet sweet taste of schadenfreude in the morning:
During the government shutdown, Barack Obama held fast, heroically refusing to give an inch to the hostage-taking, barbaric orcs of the Tea Party who insisted on delaying Obamacare. It was a triumph for the master strategist in the White House, who finally maneuvered the Republicans into revealing their extremism. But we didn’t know something back then: Obama desperately needed a delay of Healthcare.gov. In his arrogance, though, he couldn’t bring himself to admit it. The other possibility is that he is such an incompetent manager, who has cultivated such a culture of yes-men, that he was completely in the dark about the problems. That’s the reigning storyline right now from the White House. Obama was betrayed. “If I had known,” he told his staff, “we could have delayed the website.”
This is how you know we’re in the political sweet spot: when the only plausible excuses for the administration are equally disastrous indictments.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, it took about five minutes for liberals to cast the chaos and confusion of the disaster as a searing indictment of not just the Bush administration but of conservatism itself. Whatever the merits of that argument (and there are not many), Katrina was at least a surprise. The October 1 deadline for Obamacare was set by Obama’s own administration years ago ”” and it caught them completely off guard. The president may now claim that he knew nothing, but he must have wondered why Henry Chao, Healthcare.gov’s chief project manager, set the bar of success at sea level last March: “Let’s just make sure it’s not a Third World experience.” At this point, it could only be more of a Third World experience if Healthcare.gov required enrollees to pay with chickens.
Read the whole thing.
And by the way, in case you’re wondering, it’s:
Not:
Now shift this over to the international scene:
Imagine all of the bad things that are still being hidden behind the curtain.
This is the way of Barry.
The feel-good article of the year! Laugh out loud funny!
Jonah makes me tired. He is perpetually about two weeks behind the curve of events, staking out a safe perch to hurl barbs or hunker down.
He’s not nearly as clever as he thinks he is.
Eh, the fact that Obama already delayed some Obamacare provisions suggests that he and others knew this was going to be a problem.
The longer this goes on, the worse it is for Obama and the democrats.
Much higher premiums with stratospheric deductibles create great anxiety among those unable to afford the cost but though unjust, can be spun into blaming the evil insurance companies.
That lie however becomes moot, when people with cancelled policies cannot ‘transition’ to new ones. That places people way out of their comfort zones.
Everything for Obama hinges upon getting a $678 million dollar website working properly by Nov 30th. If they can’t get it working properly, he and his administration are ‘sitting in the corner wearing dunce hats’ and the fact that he lied so much, in as unambiguous a manner as possible, creates a huge problem for the democrats because there’s no way to avoid the shared responsibility.
The low-info voter, critical to dem hopes is left wondering, why is the President allowing this to happen? Oh that’s right, he’s a liar…who can’t be trusted.
Perhaps nothing can turn a President into a lame duck faster.
It appears the prime contractor for the website was fired by the Canadian government for most prodigously screwing up a big project. It was a no-bid process which raises eyebrows when a republican is president.
And a high-level exec is a classmate of Michelle, both members of Association of Black Princetonians, I believe the name is.
After reading the Goldberg article, I felt the need for a smoke.
Delicious.
“Crabs in a bucket,” yes.
People should take care not to high tox on such little pain inflicted on the Left.
It will take a lot more to conduct a Death Blow of the Leftist alliance’s power.