Democratic Chairman Says GOP Will Lose In 2014 For Opposing Obamacare

Washington Examiner -- Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who chairs the Democratic National Committee, believes Republicans will suffer politically in 2014 for their opposition to Obamacare.

The Florida Democrat was responding to Karl Rove during an interview on MSNBC Tuesday after the former senior adviser to President George W. Bush mocked her for saying that Democrats should embrace the health care reform bill during their re-election campaigns.

"Heck, yeah, I'm going to make sure that we run on that all across the country next year," Wasserman Schultz said after listing what she believes to be Obamacare's benefits for Americans.

Opinion polling for the perennially unpopular program "hadn't changed all that much" even in the face of the botched rollout of the website, she said.

President Obama and Democrats are working to fix the problems with the rollout, while Republicans are trying to make it worse, she said.

"The reason they are doing that is they know that when it's successful, not only is it something that we're going to be able to win on, it will [be] something that their candidates lose on for opposing," she said.

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Blog author's comments - Debbie Wasserman Schultz has to say this, this is her job as the DNC Chair. No matter what the Obama administration has done or is doing to the country she must try to put a positive spin on it. And in the minds of most liberals everything that is wrong in America is the fault of the Republican Party. The Democrats are devious and have a year to plan and scheme in an attempt to turn the worst piece of legislation ever passed into a positive. And once they have their talking points ready they and the liberal media will continue to preach it until the 2014 election. If they repeat something often enough many people will begin to believe it.

But Wasserman Schultz, by all means run on Obamacare as it currently is. If the GOP does their own planning and stays together on this, they will have a chance of holding the House and taking control of the Senate. As Obamacare is now I don't see any way this will work out well for the Democrats. Once the Americans come to the realization that the best healthcare system in the world is being destroyed, they should be reminded of who it was that destroyed it. The ACA was passed without one Republican vote.

Democrats Up in 2014 Vent Obamacare Anger in White House Meeting

Roll Call -- President Barack Obama heard an earful at the White House Wednesday from Senate Democrats running for re-election next year who are fuming about the Affordable Care Act’s rocky rollout.

During a two-hour meeting that was not on the president’s public schedule, the president met with 15 Senate Democrats facing the voters next year, as well as Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Michael Bennet, D-Colo.

Sen. Mark Begich of Alaska issued a release after the meeting torching the administration.

“It is simply unacceptable for Alaskans to bear the brunt of the Administration’s mismanagement of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and that is the message U.S. Senator Mark Begich delivered to President Obama today,” his office said in a statement blasted to reporters.[...]

Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado said he let the president know just how upset he is about the troubled health care law. He sent out a release saying that he had pressed the administration to extend the enrollment period due to the problems with HealthCare.gov, ensure that the data on the website is secure and make other modifications.

“The rollout of HealthCare.gov has not been smooth — to say the least — and I shared the concerns of Coloradans directly with the president,” Udall said in the statement. “Consumers should have the time they need to shop for a plan and enroll after the widespread problems with the website are fixed. I urged the president again to extend the enrollment period to give consumers enough time to make an informed decision about their family’s health insurance options. I also told the president that, for the Affordable Care Act to succeed, consumers need to be confident their personal information is secure. We need to do everything in our power to protect the online marketplace from hackers and cyberattacks.”

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Blog author's comments - The Senators voted for it but are now concerned about how their constituents will vote. They are worried about their jobs. What the Democrat Senators who are up for reelection in 2014 would like is if the Obama administration decided to move the Individual Mandate for Obamacare back until 2015. But this will not happen…the more people they have enrolled makes it that much more difficult for anyone to take it away.

The ACA also needs to enroll as many people as possible so they are able to help fund their program. And it is their program...not one Republican voted for the bill. They know this fiasco with the website, the prices of the Obamacare insurance plans, the high deductibles, along with Obama telling the American people “if you like your health-care plan, you will be able to keep your health-care plan, period” numerous times does not bode well for them. And news broke last week that the administration knew in 2010 that millions of Americans would lose their coverage.

These are some of the items they are worried about. But by concentrating on the website, they think they can fool enough voters into thinking they actually care, while not having to say they don't have a problem with Americans losing their current policies or their doctors.