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‘Fix Obamacare!’ ‘So you admit that it’s broken?’ ‘No!’ …Wait, WHAT?

Now, I know that a lot of people are basically permanently annoyed with Chuck Todd, particularly since he recently declared that Obamacare was here to stay. But the technique that he used on Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the video below remains easy to replicate. It turns out that taking a position solely because it polls well doesn’t work out as well when you get challenged on it:

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Barack Obama tells DCCC that he fixed Washington, DC.

Indirectly, to be sure: but nobody sensible to expect plain talking from Barack Obama anyway.  At the heart of this stunning revelation is this bit from the Hill:

“Do not buy into this notion somehow that, oh, these problems are too big or Washington is broken,” Obama said. “Washington is not broken.  It’s broken right now for a particular reason, but it’s not permanently broken.  It can be fixed.”

Now, of course, folks reading that line are immediately flashing back to this: Continue reading Barack Obama tells DCCC that he fixed Washington, DC.