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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John who wrote (161201)	10/23/2013 7:29:33 PM
From: calgal	Respond to of 224744

Anxious Dems: On Second Thought, Maybe Delaying More Parts of Obamacare Isn't Such a Horrible Idea Guy Benson \| Oct 23, 2013 See updates: Things just got real. Ever since Jay Carney twisted himself into a rhetorical pretzel to avoid an outright rejection of additional future delays, the tide has slowly begun turning. The murmurs began with New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, who's up for re-election next year, then spread to at least a small handful of Pelosi's caucus. Here's one: “If the problems are intense as they are this morning, then maybe we would have to consider a short delay in terms of the individual mandate,” New Jersey Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell, a member of the Health subcommittee of the Ways and Means Committee, said on Wednesday. Those who aren't openly endorsing another round of postponements just yet are heavily hinting that they may have no choice but to come around to that position sooner rather than later: (As an aside, these CMS/HHS Obamacare briefings were not available to Republican members. That will change in the near future, according to Speaker Boehner's office, following a GOP outcry). Even DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is beginning to grapple with reality: Hey, what's wrong with just extending the open enrollment period for awhile longer? Several things, actually. Megan McArdle explains why these (and several other) proposed "solutions" are at best illusory, if not counter-productive: