tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26981669.post665025398386903922..comments2024-03-23T10:55:30.196-05:00Comments on Cold Fusion Guy: Chuck Schumer states the obvious: "We took their mandate and put all of our focus on the wrong problem—health care reform."Jim Peethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07649414726939918803noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26981669.post-9206781826113372722014-11-27T06:15:20.935-06:002014-11-27T06:15:20.935-06:00Tensions flare between Senate Democrats, White Hou...<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-usa-obama-democrats-idUSKCN0JA29W20141126" rel="nofollow">Tensions flare between Senate Democrats, White House</a>Jim Peethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07649414726939918803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26981669.post-91111971752391677682014-11-26T13:25:04.867-06:002014-11-26T13:25:04.867-06:00Fallout<a href="http://fusion.net/story/30263/chuck-schumer-obamacare-comments-aca/" rel="nofollow">Fallout</a>Jim Peethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07649414726939918803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26981669.post-18560057198251939022014-11-25T20:07:29.829-06:002014-11-25T20:07:29.829-06:00WSJ: Schumer’s ObamaCare Mea Culpa - The Senator a...WSJ: <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/schumers-obamacare-mea-culpa-1416960209" rel="nofollow">Schumer’s ObamaCare Mea Culpa - The Senator admits the law has been disastrous for Democrats.</a>:<br /><br /><i>Now that 28—soon probably 29—of the 60 Senate Democrats who voted for ObamaCare are out of office, one of the surviving believers is confessing a crisis of faith. New York Senator Chuck Schumer’s striking remarks on Tuesday suggest that the church of ObamaCare is losing congregants even in the front pews.<br /><br />Speaking at the National Press Club, the influential Senate leader identified the decline of middle-class incomes as the defining challenge of the age. Democrats can only win elections, Mr. Schumer said, as “the pro-government party”—and ObamaCare is undermining that larger political project.<br /><br />The Senator called the law a distraction from the “middle-class-oriented programs” his party should have pursued after 2008: “Unfortunately, Democrats blew the opportunity the American people gave them. We took their mandate and put all of our focus on the wrong problem: health-care reform.”<br /><br />... This mea culpa is especially notable because it suggests the wall of implacable liberal opposition to reopening the health-care debate is starting to crack. Democrats have heretofore refused to acknowledge any failing in the law beyond the website rollout fiasco. Endangered Democratic incumbents tried to hold that line this year, and five of them will soon be unemployed.</i>Jim Peethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07649414726939918803noreply@blogger.com