Waxman said, \u201cThe early glitches in this rollout will soon be forgotten,\u201d and asked the committee to \u201ckeep this in perspective: The Affordable Care Act is working.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
WTH?\u00a0 Even if Obamacare was the greatest law in history.\u00a0\u00a0 Even if it was perfect in every conceivable way.\u00a0 Even if all experts knew it would save humanity and every person believed it and it was really that wonderful, we wouldn\u2019t know yet.\u00a0 It would take time to play through.\u00a0 People would actually have to have it, and use it, and keep it for a while before we ran the numbers and knew.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
The fact that he says something akin to \u2018yes, unicorns do control the traffic lights in my home town\u2019, and the press didn\u2019t jump on it with a Quayle-misspells-potato media frenzy, goes to show the painful truth that we do not have a free press, if we ever did.\u00a0 We certainly don\u2019t have access to truth through the media.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
He proves\u00a0it\u2019s a media conspiracy to make people think Conservatives are idiots.\u00a0 Here he is, saying we need to stop worrying about the problems with Obamacare (the rollout for instance) and celebrate the fact that it is working.\u00a0 Waxman said, \u201cThe early glitches in this rollout will soon be forgotten,\u201d and asked the committee to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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