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Ignorance
Well, the Shumlin administration has established a precedent for ignoring deadlines set in state law to detail funding plans. He has declined to produce a plan for funding universal health care despite having signed a law that said he would by last year. (Burlington Free Press, 3/31/2014)

Shummy no doubt has learned from the Obama administration that flouting the law is perfectly acceptable. 


GM Celebrity Pitchman
“That program (Cash for Clunkers) was good for automakers, consumers, and our environment and the Chevy Cobalt that you build here was one of GM’s most sought-after cars under that program. Dealers across the country started running out of it and needed you to build more.” (President Barack Obama)

Thanks to Jim Geraghty (Nationalreview.com, 4/1/2014) for reminding us of this as hearings open on Capitol Hill on deaths attributable to Barack Obama's favorite GM model.


Spattered
The public spats between outside groups are nothing compared with the private finger-pointing over who could be responsible if Republicans ride a political wave this year. The moderate wing is prepared to blame the party for avoiding centrist initiatives like free-trade deals and entitlement reform, while the Left will argue party leaders didn't do enough to protect benefits. (Nationaljournal.com, 3/30/2014)

Let the Democrat party finger-pointing begin. You are forgiven if you were not aware of schisms among Democrats. The Legitimate Media has been too busy reporting on the Tea Party. 


Kill Zone
The “imperial presidency” message has also been good for fund-raising. A recent email by the National Republican Congressional Committee warned, “Barack Obama thinks he’s above the law and can do anything he wants with the help of his friends, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.”

Then the email moved in for the kill: “Contribute $100, $50, $25 or what you can so that we can continue to defend Americans from Obama’s power grabs and massive government overreach.” (New York Times, 4/1/2014)

Imagine if you will the Wall Street Journal writing about Democrat party fundraising and using the expression: "moved in for the kill." The hysteria would go on for weeks. Republicans would have to issue rebukes; Congressional hearings would be held; and the reporter would be fired. 


The Fix
Administration officials realized when the fiasco was unfolding last fall that nothing mattered in the first year except getting people on the program — and so they did whatever was necessary to HealthCare.gov to make signing up easy. Those fixes are likely to lead to a large percentage of erroneous subsidy payments, as controls and other checks were turned off. That’s clearly a price the administration will gladly pay to get more people onto the program. (James C. Capretta, Nationalreview.com, 4/1/2014)

Here is the next Obamacare horror story that we will hear about: the bribery that was used to get people to sign up.  Today there will be endless rounds of high fives among Democrats about the number of sign-ups. But the Obamacare methodology has not fundamentally changed. Any and all problems are simply pushed down the road.  There will be a day of reckoning.