Obama Sorry That Americans Losing Health Plans

by JASmius

.....not for costing Americans their health care plans.  It's the difference between sympathy and contrition:

President Barack Obama on Thursday told Americans that he was sorry that they were losing their health insurance under ObamaCare, despite his repeated assurances for more than three years that they could keep their coverage if they were pleased with it.

"I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me," Obama told NBC News in an interview at the White House.

"We've got to work hard to make sure that they know we hear them — and we are going to do everything we can to deal with folks who find themselves in a tough position as a consequence of this."

Because how was he to know that those evil, greedy health insurance companies would comply with his law and dump millions of Americans from the individual policies that they liked and wanted to keep (and in some cases cannot live without) instead of defying his law, keeping them instead, and going to the gulag first?  Omniscience only extends so far, y'know.  If we weren't so stupid, we'd understand that.

Of course, how were they to know that O would double-cross them by sabotaging the web portal through which those millions of Americans were supposed to have been herded to get gouged up to their back teeth for "new & improved" policies that include everything from 24th century neural interfaces to bovine lactation enhancers?  But then, they're only human.  And not even omniscient.

Meanwhile, in the real world, the one and only reason for The One's gaseous apology feint was the bleepstorm ignited by Dan Pfieffer's big mouth, something that deserved a fist colliding with it at high velocity long before his supremely ill-considered tweet.  And Republicans were having none of it:

House Speaker John Boehner said on Thursday that Obama’s apology was "certainly in order, but what Americans want to hear is that the president is going to keep his promise."

He noted that House Republicans would vote next week to allow Americans to keep the healthcare plans they liked.

"If the president is sincerely sorry that he misled the American people, the very least he can do is support this bipartisan effort," the Ohio Republican said in a statement. "Otherwise, this apology doesn’t amount to anything.”

Boehner's office released a video on Thursday attacking Obama's "walk back" on the coverage promises, saying in a statement that "Democrats are right to be worried."

The Boehner statement called Obama's "tweaking" of his earlier promises "a whopper."

And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell slammed Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' admission that convicted felons might have been hired to work as ObamaCare "navigators," giving them access to enrollees' private information.

“Americans who’ve lost their insurance and find themselves forced onto the exchanges, the last thing they need is to worry about some felon stealing their identity," the Kentucky Republican said on the Senate floor.

Shutdown?  There was a government shutdown, you say?  Really?  When?  All we can see is this ObamaCare acid fog that's decomposing everything (including the continental matter-antimatter-powered fans) and won't go away.  We're kinda preoccupied with that right now.

Oh, but don't worry, Mr. Speaker; as I'm sure Dear Leader will be telling you in the very near future, your and Senator Johnson's "If you like your plan, you CAN keep it" bill thinks waaaaaaay too small.  Yes, indeed.  And does El Presidente have a deal for you!

And you thought the acid fog was a challenge.....