Bob Krumm is right: the President should be begging us for a year’s delay of Obamacare. He’s also right about this:
That the President can’t compromise in a way that gives him everything he wants, plus the extra time he needs, is not about business. It’s strictly personal.
…although I should qualify this: under normal circumstances the President should be begging us for a year’s delay. The problem for the President is that his entire baraka – no, that’s not a pun; it’s precisely the word that I needed and meant – is tied up in being without flaw or blemish. Losing to Republicans will not be seen as threatening to weaken Obama; it will weaken him, not least in the eyes of his most slavish worshipers. And worshipers is also precisely the world that I needed, and meant.And here’s the thing about humans, when they worship a man as if he was a god. Things can get remarkably ugly when the god turns out to be a man after all.
Moe Lane
PS: This is Barack Obama’s problem, not the GOP’s. Personally, I’m of the opinion that maybe we should start charging for letting Obamacare be delayed for a year.
PPS: Add Wolf Blitzer to the list of people offering the President a hint:
Wolf Blitzer: 'they should… delay it another year, get it ready. #obamacare http://t.co/p7h4M199If
— Brian Faughnan (@BrianFaughnan) October 9, 2013
Boehner needs to get on TV. Say, “we tried our best, just remember this fiasco when you hit the ballot box next year”. End the shutdown and just watch the FUBAR legislation take it’s course.
Heh. You know that old saying about how young people vote Liberal and when they get older they vote Conservative? Well, when you have young people getting old before their time, writing letters about Obamacare has “raped” their future, and the letter goes viiiirrrraaaallllll….I’d say Socialism is at risk, wouldn’t you?
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/10/09/college-grad-says-obamacare-has-raped-my-future-in-viral-letter/
If you’re a conservative at 20 you have no heart, if you’re a liberal at 30 you have no brain .. ?
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I’ve long suspected that the current crop of 20somethings have been raised on a bit too much “be compassionate” and “for the children” and have decided it’s all bogus.
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Mew
Maybe. Definitely some indications out there that Moe’s thoughts about worshippers and worshippee are spot on accurate.
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/10/09/Youth-Revolt-Video-Of-College-Students-Blaming-Obama-and-Democrats-for-Shutdown
Glenn has a good recommendation. Nothing happens in Vegas until Reid gives.
Another year wouldn’t make it any better, neither the program, nor the implementation.