The current situation is serious. But I remember a lot of other times when it was supposedly curtains for Obama, too, because inside the Beltway, the more disciplined Republicans, who after all are in the luxurious position of just sitting back and firing away, have an easier time winning news cycles. But out beyond the Beltway, the party that shut down the government for three weeks and killed immigration reform and wants to decimate food stamps and can’t even pass its own spending bills doesn’t look very appealing to most people. The fate of Obamacare can be changed. The DNA of the GOP cannot.
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Yes, the public has an amazingly short memory, especially if the problem is resolved and something else occupies their attention. If the program is fixed there should be no long-term damage from the people who matter (core constituencies and and independents).
Most every large software project has a rocky start (Target and Best Buy are examples, as are most MMORPGs). Apple's own map app for the iPhone sucked big time when it first came out. There's nothing new about bad software.
When Obama "promised" people they could keep their health care, my understanding was that he was addressing the vast majority of Americans who already had it through employers, not the tiny minority of people (like me) who have to buy it themselves -- and get no tax credits for it!
People like Ted Cruz bitch about Obamacare and the tax credits that some of the people who will use it will get, but Cruz gets his health insurance tax-free through his wife's employer, Goldman Sachs. That fringe benefit is worth between $20,000 and $40,000, which Goldman deducts directly from their taxes, and Cruz pays no taxes on that benefit, which could be as $15,000 tax-break, all because his wife works for one of the biggest villains of the Crash of 2008.
He's such a man of the people...
"the more disciplined Republicans"? I thought the Republicans were in hopeless disarray and you two clowns are anticipating a bloody civil war in the GOP. Those wily Republicans, all hopelessly fractured in one post, then all locksteppy in the next, only to be at each others throats the next, except when they're united in evil doings. Such a kaleidoscopic world you live in.
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