CNN's Paul Steinhauser explains how the botched rollout of Healthcare.gov has sunk the president's approval rating.
And not O-Care itself? Seems to me like the non-functionality of the web portal is the only thing keeping the public at large from finding out about all the other problems - the sticker shock, the higher premiums for way less value in terms of higher deductibles and higher co-pays. Except, of course, that this information is being widely disseminated by the media because they have no real choice about reporting it. That's the other reason why I don't think O planned the process this way; the first is that with all the other things to hate about ObamaCare, starting it off by botching the website would be....counterintuitive at best.
But then, what do freefall poll numbers matter to the dictator at this point? Whether or not he leaves office when he's supposed to, he'll never face the voters again. And he cares not a whit for their down-ballot affect on congressional Democrats, since he's functionally stolen Congress's Article I/Section I lawmaking power for himself.
If only the scales had fallen off the LIVs' and NIV's eyes before last November 6th, when it might have made a difference. Only, of course, it wouldn't have, because there was no way The First Black President was every going to be cashiered by an electorate drowning in white guilt and the Affirmative Action mentality. Were there no Twenty-Second Amendment (and in O's mind, there isn't), O wouldn't need a coup to declare himself president-for-life because he would never lose for precisely that reason.
Which raises the question of why polling outfits bother to do these polls, or why they aren't just MSUing to depict O's popularity as robust as they wish it was. At least that way we could rehash the "media is biased" chestnut.
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