Liberals to President Obama: Keep it together

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President Barack Obama never had the right wing on health care, has potentially lost the middle and with his attempted administrative fix is now in danger of losing the left.

Daily Kos launched a petition to urge Obama to stop apologizing for people losing their health care plans. Liberal MSNBC host Ed Schultz said Obama needs just to hold the line. And Howard Dean said the White House should just enlist Organizing for Action — the president’s political arm — to call every person who has lost their insurance plan due to Obamacare changes

It’s all part of the growing liberal angst about Obama’s health care rollout. The failure of HealthCare.gov to launch was one thing, but Obama’s move Thursday to allow people to keep substandard insurance policies is, for many of them, a bridge too far. They want Obama to make sure the law isn’t killed piece by piece and don’t like the idea of giving the health insurance industry more power than it already has.

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“If it had been up to me, I am not certain I would have made this decision, but the president felt it was important to do,” Harkin said in a statement. “My hope, however, is that everyone who has received a cancellation notice will fully and carefully consider their options. In the vast majority of cases, they will find that the coverage that they were paying good money for is not worth the paper it was printed on.”

Anna Galland, the executive director of MoveOn.org Civic Action, said her members don’t want to see Obama accede to demands that he weaken the health care law in order to satisfy congressional critics.




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[russspeakeasy]

1. Who is this adjustment suppose to please ?

This plan will be the victim of a thousand cuts.

[lostincalifornia]

2. One thing I wouldn't do and that is trust any analysis from the rag politico

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

3. Yep! Still trying to figure out (a) just what the president apologized for and (b) what he is...

...trying to fix. Both Chris Hayes and Larry O'Donnell have been absolutely brilliant in the last two weeks trying to explain what really happened with these canceled health plans, and also trying to explain that this "fix" affects such a small percentage of the population. Of course, the Corporate Media, the ReThugs, and even those on the Political Left who hate everything Obama are using this as an opportunity to take it to the president, which is their prerogative. But still, the president should not have apologized on this issue. It not only makes him appear weak, it makes it seem as though he is culpable and did something wrong, which he did not.

This is one of the many things that I dislike about this president's personality: he is so quick to acquiesce; too quick to cave to pressure and too quick to apologize. Stop fucking apologizing. Stop conceding, especially to this damn Corporate Media and Rethug machine whose only mission is to destroy you!!

[Laelth]

5. +1. n/t

-Laelth

[Laelth]

4. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[tularetom]

6. It wasn't the republicans that forced him to apologize for it

It was his own party that wussed out on him. Especially that boil on the butt of the Democratic party Bill Clinton.

Feinstein and other so called Dems in the senate introduced legislation to delay the program for a year and a lot of the more spineless Democratic senators were apparently prepared to vote for it.

Obama really had no choice, he had to do what he did. It's unfortunate, because it defeats the whole purpose of the ACA. It's also unfortunate because the press as usual is piling on.

[bvar22]

7. I learned to stop apologizing to Republicans 30 years ago.

When you do the Right Thing
for the Right Reasons,
no apology is necessary.

[libdem4life]

8. Even though I support the plan, from a Liberal standpoint it was always greviously substandard.

No President can please all of the people all of the time, but on this subject, one can scarcely please a few people part of the time.

[liberalmuse]

9. President Obama has nothing to apologize for.

I want to hear the Republican fuckers who tried to squelch this at every turn say they are sorry. I want them on their knees begging for forgiveness, and then I want them to get up and start doing everything they can to help ensure every single American is covered by affordable health care.

[dreamnightwind]

10. I've got his back on this

I'm no fan of the ACA or the way Obama went about it, at all.

But I'm sure not going to join a RW pecking party to attack him for issues such as web site roll-out failure (it's hard, I'm a programmer, roll-outs often don't go well), or the people who had faux insurance losing their policies. Too bad he caved on that, but I understand, he need to lower the media outrage.

I won't have his back if the ACA turns out, as I suspect, to be an obstacle rather than a bridge to single-payer, or if health insurance costs aren't reined in. That's all down the road, we'll see.