Wait - what? did I hear someone on Meet the Press more or less say that

[hedgehog]

because many more people than expected are trying to sign up for Obamacare, we should push the roll-out back another year?

[dkf]

1. Well it makes sense to me to push back the penalties one year since it's still chaotic.

[hedgehog]

3. Granted, I don't watch mnay tv news shows, but has anyone actually

found someone without insurance today who'd like to wait another year? There was a long thread here on DU a few weeks back in which the OP was a complaint about having to waiting until 1/1/14 for coverage!

There is no more chaos here than at the Apple store when a new I-Phone comes out!

[dkf]

5. Of course there are. Otherwise the individual mandate would be absolutely pointless.

[CTyankee]

7. all new big govenment programs have bumps along the way.

There will be plenty to fix but Obama is surrounded by smart people who will get the kinks worked. out.

Please, a retreat for a year is a Republican talking point.

[lame54]

8. they might...

if there are still troubles as it gets closer to March

[LiberalFighter]

9. It isn't like they only have a couple of weeks to sign up.

Delay is a poppycock idea.

[immoderate]

2. It's the solution to every problem.

Like cutting taxes were to Bush. Surplus? Cut taxes! Deficit? Cut taxes!

--imm

[NHDEMFORLIFE]

4. Same, old tactics

As they have been doing for decades, Republicans simply repeat an outright load of crap over and over and over again, until it becomes tacitly accepted as fact by the shallow, lazy idiots in the national media. Then, the load of crap is repeated over and over and over again by the shallow idiots in the national media, until the more feeble minded among us accept it as fact.
Our main reason for hope is that President Obama has been proven himself capable of getting around the media clown car. Hopefully he can do it again this time.
It would be laughable if the stakes weren't so high.

[gopiscrap]

6. YUP

[IrishAyes]

10. hedgehog, my dear... great OP

And you know how warmly I regard you.

But about the people in question, how many times must we tell you that EVEN YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID!
Sad fact of life, but there it is. Thank God for souls like yours.