Today is the last day to enroll in Obamacare. (Yes, we know there's an extension for folks who have started to enroll but who have encountered technical difficulties.) If you need health coverage, click here. If not, sit back, relax, and consider the news stories that are grabbing our attention this final day of March.
We cats have snarled an awful lot about the Obama Administration's failure to sell the Affordable Care Act after it passed. And we're not taking back a single word. So on this enrollment deadline day, we urge the White House to celebrate the numbers, promote the success stories, and generally Not Let Up. Because the Republicans surely won't.
Does anyone besides us think that Chris Christie's gaffe about the "occupied territories" is just more proof of his inability to think of others beside himself? A thoughtful politician would have considered the world view of his audience before he spoke. As we well know, Chris Christie is not thoughtful.
Finally, we cats have heard a lot of desperate Republican chatter about Jeb! in 2016. We say desperate because while the Establishment seems to kinda like him (accent on "kinda"), the base positively loathes him. But what strikes us most is Pundit World's assertion that a Jeb! nomination would take away the GOP's "Hillary Is Old Hat" argument.
Hm. Only men would say that. In fact, yes, they were all men. Because how could the first woman to sit behind the desk in the Oval Office be "old hat"? We cats give these boy pundits the Randy Mastro Sexism Award, and we HISS.
2 comments:
the plutocrats want a republican, the problem they have is finding one who will appeal to the base and not make the rest of the country vomit ... it's a heavy lift but they have the money to do it ... Romney was their guy in 2012 but he looked like the CEO who just walked in and told you your job was outsourced to china ... tough sell for the average joe and jane ... it looks like they will win the senate ... they will then go on to pass one crazy law after another that Obama will veto and this will make them look even worse come 2016 ... all in all republicans suck
Having just read POLITICO's report on the Adelson confab (ugh), we cats share your concern about rich Republicans perverting the process. However, hold that thought on the Senate. Six months ago during the shutdown, the conventional wisdom was that the GOP was toast and maybe even the House was in play. While we were never quite THAT optimistic, our point is that Things Change. And will change again, maybe even a couple of times, between now and November.
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