Posted on 07/05/2013 8:45:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The delay in the healthcare employers mandate has dealt the Obama administration a black eye, at a time when the president desperately needs a political win.
Political observers agreed that the decision to delay the mandate until 2015, which the administration announced on Tuesday, is a setback for Obama, who is currently attempting to shoehorn immigration reform legislation through the House to secure one of his legislative priorities in his second term.
It also casts a shadow on Obama’s one major legislative accomplishment and could possibly put a dent in his legacy, observers said.
“If healthcare were to be his one major victory and it is seen as flawed and resisted to some good effect for the remainder of his presidency, that would be a hit to his legacy and it might take him off the list of great Democratic presidents,” said Cal Jillson, a professor of political science at Southern Methodist University.
Jillson said the delay also highlights the problems some had with the healthcare law and “feeds into the narrative that Obama is ineffectual in dealing with Congress.”
Republicans seized on the delay Tuesday evening and into Wednesday, claiming the legislation itself had been rammed through both chambers with many blemishes.
“Obamacare is a flawed law, it has been from day one and continues to be one now,” said Kirsten Kukowski, a press secretary for the Republican National Committee. “This latest announcement is just another sign that the president and his administration are afraid of the havoc that this imperfect law will wreak on everyday Americans.”
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This may be his Waterloo.
Uh, Ms Jillson, nobama is a Democrat president. There is nothing Democratic about him.
Never enter a house of candy.
Now comes the pain.
Zer0 is toast wrt the history of Personal Liberty and the US Constitution.
With respect to the Muzzie Bros., it's 0bamaCAIR.
Finally this schmuck is on the ropes and the GOP is looking to hand him a distracting victory on “immigration”.
I say it again now, if they do this, I’m done with them.
Anyone else who feels this way, please call and keep calling. Call the RNC too not just the office holders.
Unless he can use it as an excuse to push single payer, which his leftist supporters are dying for him to do. They love the idea of everyone (except the elite, which they’re always screaming about) sitting around in a waiting room dying before they ever see some glorified aide (no offense to aides, as gar as their job goes).
It ties right into their love of death to humanity.
Call the RNC too not just the office holders.
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Thanks, I had not thought of that!
“There is nothing Democratic about him.”
I’m with you.
It chills me whenever I see or hear that word pertaining to ANY of them, so whenever I do, it helps to think of them as the democrat ick party, or the democrat tick party (for the bloodsuckers they are).
But they’re unworthy of being known as democratic, and they’ll never have that honor from me.
Obama’s legacy is ruined if the United States of America survives his administration.
No...he is the first “mongrel” president (his descriptor). His legacy is the first illegitimate president and first psycopathic president and the first America-hating president. What a complete loser.
You need to become more nuanced about skin color and "race".
Apparently Traitor Roberts too.
The crap sandwich is beginning to be regurgitated.
it might take him off the list of great Democratic presidents
I didn’t even know there was such a list
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