Shutdowngeddon seems like it took place years ago, doesn't it?:
Democratic leaders have given the White House space to work out the problems with the ObamaCare website, but if it isn't right this time around, vulnerable Senate Democrats could [i.e. will] distance themselves even more from the law they voted to pass.
"There's a window here; I'm not sure how long it is," Jim Manley, a Democratic strategist and former spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, told the National Journal.
Earlier this month, thirty-nine Democrats joined ranks with Republicans to vote for a bill allowing people to remain on their current health insurance plans, and are signaling they're ready to make a stronger push about the bill should the site still not work correctly after Sunday's deadline comes and goes, said the National Journal.
But with Obama's poll numbers at record lows and Americans are saying he's "untrustworthy," another failed ObamaCare website rollout could slash his ratings even more, and with public approval of ObamaCare also waning, Democrats are scrambling to show their constituents that they are trying to fix the problems.
"You need to explain what you're trying to fix, and you'd better be trying to fix something. If there's nothing you want to fix, there's something wrong with you," Democratic pollster Mark Mellman told the National Journal.
The whole "fix" meme is nothing more than a time-buying gambit. It's implication isn't difficult to deduce: As long as something is ostensibly in the process of being "fixed," the idea of bagging the whole thing is held in abeyance - as is the notion of jettisoning the Democrats who voted to ram it down the necks of the public against their will in the first place. Once it's "fixed," goes this line of reasoning, everything will be fine.
Except, of course, everything isn't fine. Millions of individual policies have been cancelled by the Obama Regime (not insurance carriers, who are only doing what "settled law of the land" requires), tens of millions of employer-based plans are on the chopping block next year, and higher-premium/higher deductible/higher co-pay "sticker shock" is already gob-smacking millions of Americans who could barely afford the plans they had and liked. This is all already common knowledge, and will sink in ever deeper if healthcare.gov ever does actually get up and running. And until it does, the web portal fiasco will continue percolating like acid, eating away at the evaporating chances of the Dems retaining the Senate a year from now.
In short, they have no way out. ObamaCare will be THE issue of 2014, red-state Dems all cast the deciding vote it without a single Republican joining in, and it is an unmitigated, un"fixable" disaster. The O-swoosh might as well be tattooed on all of their foreheads.
And you can count on Barack Obama's stubborn persistence in bulldozing this atrocity forward, regardless of what anybody says or how loud the mass howls for repeal, like the dictator he is. The only question is whether or not O will summarily cancel the midterm election. Either way, it won't be pretty for his party.
Put another way, what goes around most emphatically comes around.
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