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Blah Blah Blah, the deer is still caught in the headlights. Though to be fair, it must be the slowest moving vehical in the world that approaches.
Breaking: neoliberal dictatorship invades in the ERT building!
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2013/11/breaking-neoliberal-dictators...
...to throw out the mob of leeches who, getting paid by taxpayers, used to shut down the national TV and Radio regularly at their whim.
The usual neoliberal propaganda...
So, Arrogance and Incompetence are walking down the road and run into their old friend Denial:
"The administration did not refuse to issue key regulations and guidelines, or to announce the final number of states that would be building their own exchanges, because Republicans used secret mind-control rays or stole the notebooks they had used to write the draft memo. They delayed because they did not want Republicans to be able to tell the public about them before Barack Obama was safely re-elected to a second term.
In other words, most of the damage was done not by lack of funding, but because the administration was either incompetent or trying to insulate itself from the perfectly ordinary, natural, legitimate and, dare I say, patriotic function of an opposition party, which is to point out to the public when the party in charge is doing something that the public wouldn’t like. Reframing “criticism of the administration” as “sabotage” deserves an Oscar for outstanding lifetime achievement in the field of political spin.
Which is why I think that “the lesson of Obamacare” is something very different from Kevin Drum’s lesson. It’s not enough to win elections. To pass a major piece of legislation, you also need to have the political and institutional support to make it happen. If you pass a law without these things, you will likely come to regret it -- as I think some Democrats already have, and more probably will."
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-05/obamacare-shouldn-t-have-been-managed-like-a-campaign.html