Apparently everybody isn’t quite onboard with Barry’s call, on Thursday, for millions of canceled healthcare policies, as if by waving a magic wand, to be restored. Those lawmakers and activists of the far more liberal/progressive persuasion, have since been busy criticizing him for not holding firm on enforcing Obamacare. His decision to allow insurance companies to, essentially, ignore the law for a year and continue offering substandard coverage could now end up costing him the support of the left.
Some leftist loon by the name of Anna Galland, who’s the executive director of MoveOn.org Civic Action, said the members of her bizarre little group did not want Barry to bow to critics of the Affordable Care Act. "They don't want to see this law eviscerated by death by a thousand cuts. They want to see the law strengthened, they want to see the website work, and have the law do all the good things it's already doing," she said, adding there is "deep concern" about the proposed changes.
And then, of course, there was Sen. Bernie Sanders, that flaming Socialist from ‘The Green Mountain State’, who also said that the solution to the problem is not to undo Obamacare. Asking, "Do we want to encourage policies that are totally inadequate? No we don't." Adding, "We want to move toward a situation where everybody, regardless of income, of age has strong coverage." This doddering old dolt went on to say, "Am I in favor of policies which are inadequate? I am not."
Many in the leftwing media who have been highly supportive of Barry and his signature healthcare law and often lash out at his critics, have also weighed in. MSNBC’s resident weirdo, Ed Schultz, tweeted, "Ed's advice to President @BarackObama: Next time "you give it to them!!" And the popular leftwing blog Daily Kos has started a petition calling on Barry to start blaming insurance companies for the cancelations rather than apologize for people losing their current coverage.
"Some insurers are using confusion created by the new law to hoodwink their customers into enrolling in much more expensive plans," the petition reads. "The actions of some of these companies proves why we needed healthcare reform in the first place: insurance companies are greedy, and cannot be trusted. "It is time to set the record straight," it continues. "Tell President Obama to stop apologizing for the despicable conduct of private insurance companies, and hold them accountable."
Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer, meanwhile, observed that the left is really frantic about Barry's backpeddling on Obamacare because it represents all they stand for. "At stake," he wrote in the Washington Post Friday, "is more than the fate of one presidency or of the current Democratic majority in the Senate. At stake is the new, more ambitious, social-democratic brand of American liberalism introduced by Obama, of which Obamacare is both symbol and concrete embodiment."
But seriously folks, with this disaster called Obamacare now proving to be not even remotely close to being what the Democrats promised it would be, at this point, the best thing they could do for themselves, politically speaking, would be to go along with any plan that calls for it to be scrapped. Let’s face it, the only way that the Democrats were even able to get this debacle passed in the first place was through the rather artful use of every political shenanigan that was available to them.
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