How Can Obamacare Not Be Repealed?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 19th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
How Can Obamacare Not Be Repealed?
Jeffrey Anderson, Weekly Standard
It’s a question often asked these days in conservative circles: Do you really think Obamacare can be repealed? Usually uttered behind closed doors, the question reveals both an un-Reagan-like pessimism and something of a disconnect from political reality.Obamacare was profoundly unpopular when the Democrats went ahead and passed it anyway, daring the American people to make them pay.
Mounting Danger Signs for Democrats
Alexander Burns, Politico
President Barack Obama’s job approval slump and voters’ entrenched wariness of his health care law are dogging Democrats ahead of the 2014 midterm elections, and Republicans have captured a lead in the areas home to the year’s most competitive races, according to a new POLITICO poll.
Editor’s Exit at The Times Puts Tensions on Display
David Carr, NYT
Back in 2010, before she became executive editor of The New York Times, Jill Abramson sent me a handwritten attaboy note about a big story. It still hangs in my cubicle: “You wrote a story about the trashing of a once great American institution and people never tire of that.”
