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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe GOP must admit it was wrong on Obamacare....
don't. hold. your. breath.
By E.J. Dionne Jr.
Is there any accountability in American politics for being completely wrong? Is there any cost to those who say things that turn out not to be true and then, when their fabrications or false predictions are exposed, calmly move on to concocting new claims as if they had never made the old ones?
The fact that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) hit its original goal this week of signing up more than 7 million people through its insurance exchanges ought to be a moment of truth literally as well as figuratively. It ought to give everyone, particularly members of the news media, pause over how reckless the opponents of change have been in making instant judgments and outlandish charges.
When the health-care Web site went haywire last fall, conservatives were absolutely certain this technological failure meant that the entire reform effort was doomed. If you doubt this, try a Google search keyed to that period relating the word doomed to the health-care law.
It should be said that the general public was much wiser. A CNN poll in November that Post blogger Greg Sargent highlighted at the time found a majority (54 percent to 45 percent) saying that the problems facing the law will eventually be solved. Political moderates took this view by 55 percent to 43?percent, independents by 50 percent to 48 percent. Only Republicans by a whopping 72 percent to 27 percent and conservatives (by 66 percent to 33?percent) thought the law could never be fixed.
Is there any accountability in American politics for being completely wrong? Is there any cost to those who say things that turn out not to be true and then, when their fabrications or false predictions are exposed, calmly move on to concocting new claims as if they had never made the old ones?
The fact that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) hit its original goal this week of signing up more than 7 million people through its insurance exchanges ought to be a moment of truth literally as well as figuratively. It ought to give everyone, particularly members of the news media, pause over how reckless the opponents of change have been in making instant judgments and outlandish charges.
When the health-care Web site went haywire last fall, conservatives were absolutely certain this technological failure meant that the entire reform effort was doomed. If you doubt this, try a Google search keyed to that period relating the word doomed to the health-care law.
It should be said that the general public was much wiser. A CNN poll in November that Post blogger Greg Sargent highlighted at the time found a majority (54 percent to 45 percent) saying that the problems facing the law will eventually be solved. Political moderates took this view by 55 percent to 43?percent, independents by 50 percent to 48 percent. Only Republicans by a whopping 72 percent to 27 percent and conservatives (by 66 percent to 33?percent) thought the law could never be fixed.
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The GOP must admit it was wrong on Obamacare.... (Original Post)
spanone
Apr 2014
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sheshe2
(83,898 posts)1. Kicked and Recommending!
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)2. Admit they
are wrong? LOLOLOL. They will try to take credit for it, soon enough.
spanone
(135,873 posts)3. yep, Obama stole it from romney. that'll be the new spin.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)4. admit it...