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Republicans are filled with an unchained glee by the missteps and bumbles of the Obamacare website roll-out. Meanwhile, people who support the law and care about people getting coverage not only lament the debacle in human terms but also see a chance to show how government can concretely deliver benefits for people’s lives being squandered for trivial reasons. And yet, if you look at the polls, through this process, support for the law has either held steady or even bumped up while all of this has been happening. It’s too early to say how this is affecting public perceptions of the law. But even the short-term repercussions may not be what we’d imagine.
TPM Reader JS checks in from North Carolina and sees a big change …
I have tried to sign on everyday since October to see if I could see my wife up (we have health insurance, but I was curious about the options, and wanted to see if the website worked). Every day for nearly three weeks, I couldn’t sign up. Slowly, I would get further along, I could get more information about the plans, I would get further into registration before finding myself in some frustrating loop.
I think most places if you get found out running a highly trafficked anonymous Twitter account crapping on your colleagues and bosses, you’re probably looking for a new job. But Jofi Joseph, the National Security Council staff just canned for that reason, well … a lot of the tweets are just A-holish in their own right, let alone his place of employment. Here’s a list of some of the ‘best’.
We find out this morning from Mother Jones that the Tea Party challenger to Sen. Thad Cochran (Pretty Damned Conservative-MS) attended a pro-Confederate, pro-Secessionist event recently. For the Mississippi GOP this isn’t as unusual as it might sound. What got my attention though is that he’s being supported by the Senate Conservatives Fund and the Club for Growth. The former of course is the spawn of now-Heritage Foundation sachem and former South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint. The picture comes very into focus. Calhounite, neo-Confederate, revanchist.
Boehner and Cantor, through spokespersons, say they can’t recall any member of their caucus telling the President they “I cannot even stand to look at you.”
Last year Orrin Hatch had to go into full Tea Party-palooza mode to hold on to his seat after his colleague was ousted and replaced by arch-Tea Partier Mike Lee. But now that Lee is hurting at home after becoming Ted Cruz’s self-appointed deputy Defundo monkey, Hatch is singing a different tune.
Howard Dean: ‘You Gotta Blame’ The GOP For Some Of Obamacare’s Glitches.