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Team ObamaCare's Game-Changing Shock Play - Be Ready For It"



How long before the President and team ObamaCare do exactly what their critics have been demanding…and then, try to claim credit, as they blame those same critics for causing the problem the President must solve?

Can you guess what we're talking about here? Can you speculate along with us on what scheming Democrats will do, on what team ObamaCare will announce before long…then be hailed by their starry-eyed supporters and sycophants as heroes for doing? What is the action they'll take that's virtually inevitable?

Why, delaying ObamaCare's individual mandate, of course. Giving the people the same break that big business and big labor are getting. And politically, it could be a brilliant move.

Given the disastrous rollout of the federal enrollment website, healthcare.gov; given the chorus of criticism rising from many on the Left; and given the sticker shock being experienced by untold numbers of consumers who thought ObamaCare would be free, or at least "affordable" - given all that, it's a virtual certainty that Obama will play out his role as benevolent dictator and order that the individual mandate be delayed. Delayed until when? Until after the 2014 elections.

Now this delay will probably not happen in the immediate future, because team Obamacare still has to go through the motions of trying to fix the technical "glitches" that have plagued their botched online health insurance marketplace. They also have to make sure they've painted a big enough target on the backs of conservative Republicans in Congress - especially those "crazy Tea Party conservatives" - so the blame for the delay can be put on them.

C'mon, you say, it's the liberty-minded defenders of freedom who've been calling for this delay, over and over again. Won't the public recognize this? Won't the people remember? Probably not, as the public's memory grows shorter and shorter. And as the media will happily play its part in Obama's theater of the absurd. Just look at how the supposedly "objective" news media is increasingly comfortable in calling Tea Partiers haters, racists, dangerous extremists.

Something else team ObamaCare must also make sure they've put in place is an effective narrative - a propaganda machine - that can lay blame at the feet of the private insurance companies whose "greed" or "unwillingness to cooperate" or even "incompetence" can be spun into the President's reluctant call for a delay…for the sake of the people, the poor and powerless caught in the overwhelming whirlwind of all this political struggle and market confusion.

And thus will Obama and his cunning liberal cohorts snatch from the GOP the big election issue of the 2014 cycle. Thus will they turn a dark negative into a bright positive. Thus will team Obama once again masquerade as champions and protectors of the people, while pulling off another calculated, masterful, deceptive maneuver to ingratiate themselves to a desperately ignorant electorate.

So, what's to be done? How can conservatives hope to fight this impending maneuver? By continuing to call for the delay in ObamaCare's individual mandate. By not letting the Left intimidate and bully conservative voices on Capitol Hill. By not being silenced, not bowed into submission by hateful, incendiary rhetoric.

If the voices on the Right calling for delay are silenced, then Obama wins. And no matter how bad the ObamaCare rollout continues to be, no matter how unaffordable and destructive ObamaCare proves to be, no matter how many setbacks the law encounters, it will survive, in one form or another.

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GOP Vindication! Carney Drops Hints Obamacare May Be Delayed

By TCS News / October 21, 2013 / No Comments

This is the first official indication that the president may be seriously considering a sweeping Obamacare delay. After today’s ridiculous bit of kabuki theater, how exactly would a sudden about-face blanket postponement work politically? And is such a delay even logistically viable at this stage?

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Democrats On Delaying Obamacare: It’s OK As Long As It’s Our Idea

October 23, 2013 by Ben Bullard

PHOTOS.COM

Now that it’s irrefutably obvious to everyone that the Oct. 1 rollout of Obamacare has been — and remains — a stillborn disaster, all the evil conservative talk about delaying the health plan during the government shutdown farce has become more palatable for Democratic leaders who, only days ago, were unwavering in their hasty support of keeping the program on schedule.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carneyreversed course Monday, telling reporters the Administration of President Barack Obama could opt, even now, to push back the deadline for mandatory individual healthcare coverage if the glitchy, inaccurate healthcare.gov website continues to shut out the few would-be applicants from completing their enrollment, or provides them pricing information that changes after their enrollments have been completed.
From FOX News:

Carney was peppered with questions on whether the administration would be open to delaying the requirement on individuals to buy health insurance, if the website continues to lock out would-be customers. Echoing Obama, Carney said repeatedly that the country is just three weeks into a six-month enrollment process and suggested it’s too early to make any decisions of that magnitude.
But he did not close the door on the option.
Asked if the administration is looking for flexibility in applying the mandate, Carney said: “Whatever conclusions you draw about the way the law is written, I think you can draw. The law is clear that if you do not have access to affordable health insurance, then you will not be asked to pay a penalty because you haven’t purchased affordable health insurance.”

None of that points unequivocally toward a delay in Obama’s implementation of the law for regular people. But it does represent a sea change from the hard-line rhetoric Democrats deployed against conservative Congressmen who called for a delay or defunding during the debt limit standoff. The White House’s new, soft language that entertains all options owes chiefly to the President’s debt ceiling victory over a confused and impotent Senate GOP caucus.
Now that Obama holds the momentary upper hand in framing the upcoming second round of budget fights along Democratic Party talking points, the idea of delaying the individual mandate clearly seems more palatable for the President. But if recent history is any indication, don’t expect that to last.
A political problem has appeared: With the Obamacare rollout already nearly a month behind schedule, a Republican is floating a bill to delay the law’s mandatory individual enrollment. And that could easily lure the Obama Administration and its Congressional servants, like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) into a partisan fight that tosses the best interests of the American people out the window (once again). Democrats won’t concede to any piece of legislation, no matter how sensible or beneficial (even to the beleaguered President himself), that smells like a political assassination from the right.
The bill’s sponsor, Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has a point: You can’t change the rules of the game on people after the game has started. After all, would you expect your landlord to pay you a prorated amount of the rent you’d overpaid if he decided to kick you out in the middle of the month? The law would.
“How are you going to go after people next year using the IRS to punish them if the thing you’re forcing them to buy isn’t available for them?” Rubio argued. “So the law I’m going to introduce basically delays that requirement until the [Government Accountability] Office has certified that it’s been up and running and effectively working for six months consecutive,” Rubio added. “I think that’s a prudent approach given the problems that it’s facing by the White House’s own admission.”
Of course it is. But any early GOP attempt to solve Obamacare’s most immediate problem — the problem of forcing Americans to hold up their end of the deal, even as the government effectively pleads for more time — is only setting Congress up for an imminent repeat of the partisan debt limit fight it had temporarily “solved” only a week ago. And that benefits no one — including Congress.
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