PrintAugust 11, 2013
The President's ObamaCare Straw Man
Leave it to President Obama, with one foot out the door, to sling one more verbal jab at any Republicans who have the temerity to oppose his health care law.
In a Friday afternoon presser before his vacation getaway, the president called efforts to defund and repeal ObamaCare the Republicans' "holy grail" and an "ideological fixation."
Which is not to be confused with Obama's own fixation on passing health care despite sustained opposition by more than half the country.
The president went on to set up and knock down his own straw man, as The Hill reports:
The idea that you would shut down the government unless you prevent 30 million people from getting healthcare is a bad idea...
I'm assuming they will not take that path...I have confidence that common sense, in the end, will prevail.
Defending his delay of the employer mandate, the president said that going through Congress would be the "normal thing" to do, "[b]ut we're not in a normal atmosphere around here when...(Read Full Article)
