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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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From: calgal	11/5/2013 8:07:04 PM
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POLITICSTeam Obama grabs the pitchforks BY CHRIS STIREWALT \| NOVEMBER 5, 2013 AT 7:45 PM TOPICS: POWER PLAY Want FOX News First in your inbox every day? Sign up here. Buzz Cut: • Team Obama grabs the pitchforks • Romney goes Pufferfishing • Cuccinelli keeps focus on ObamaCare • Senate to move on controversial employment bill • Must be the Chuck Norris edition TEAM OBAMA GRABS THE PITCHFORKS - The partnership between President Obama and big health insurance companies is under some serious strain as administration talking points suggest a populist pitch in a bid to resuscitate the president’s floundering new entitlement program. Ezekiel Emanuel, the leading architect of ObamaCare insisted on “Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace” that Obama isn’t to blame for millions of cancelled policies, premium spikes and other disruptions. “The insurance decides how to make money. When the private companies decide to drop an individual, you blame Obama. He isn’t responsible for that,” said Emanuel, brother to former White House Chief of Staff turned Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Sign Up for the Politics Today newsletter! [WaPo details the sticker shock many are feeling under ObamaCare as premiums far exceed those promised.] Promises, promises - White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer claimed Sunday that the millions of lost insurance policies under ObamaCare was the result of a prioritization of promises. President Obama, Pfeiffer said, meant to keep his promise to allow Americans to keep their policies, but that a more important promise got in the way. “[I]f the president were to allow people to have those plans be downgraded, or insurance companies to keep selling barebones plans …if he had done that he'd be violating even more important promise to the American people, that everyone would have a guarantee to access of quality affordable health insurance,” Pfeiffer told ABC’s “This Week.” Pfeiffer did not say when Obama deemed the “if you like it” pledge inoperable due to the “barebones” promise. Read the full article on FoxNews.com

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