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Chuck Schumer admits ObamaCare was a mistake - fails miserably to learn from it



Back in 2008, Democrats rode into office on a wave of deeply misplaced optimism in Barack Obama. They held the House, the Senate, and the White House. They could have done anything they wanted. More importantly, they could have done anything the American people wanted. So, of course, they chose to do the one thing that nobody wanted - ObamaCare.
Thus began a six year slide into arrogance, incompetence, and failure. Now, the Number three Democrat in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, is admitting that, when given the keys to the kingdom, Dems botched it big time. He made his remarks at the National Press Club, where he admitted the ACA was a mistake:
"After passing the stimulus, Democrats should have continued to propose middle class-oriented programs and built on the partial success of the stimulus, but unfortunately Democrats blew the opportunity the American people gave them. We took their mandate and put all of our focus on the wrong problem - health care reform. The plight of uninsured Americans and the hardships caused by unfair insurance company practices certainly needed to be addressed. But it wasn't the change we were hired to make."

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Huh. You don't say. If only there had been some way to know this back before ObamaCare became a partially-implemented fiasco. It's just a shame that Dems had no way of knowing what they were getting into. In the future, maybe they should try something like, say, reading any of the thousands of polls which have always shown the law to be deeply unpopular. Regardless, Schumer eventually arrived at his real point. He doesn't particularly care about the law's failure. What's boterhing him is that by doing something no one asked for - and doing it incredibly poorly - Democrats ended up damaging the public's faith in government. This was, apparently, a thing that existed at one point.
"As 2014 began, the parties were in stalemate. But, when government failed to deliver on a string of non-economic issues - the roll out of the Obamacare exchanges, the mishandling of the surge in border crossers, ineptitude at the VA , the initial handling of the Ebola threat - people lost faith in the government's ability to work, and them blamed the incumbent governing party, Democrats, creating a Republican wave."
This is the red meat for conservatives. Democrats are the party of big government. Theirs is the party that says "Shut up and trust us, because we're smarter than you, and we know what's best for you." They are the politicians whose ideology centers upon an ever-expanding array of federal powers all designed to make you a ward of the state. Yet Schumer has just admitted that - by being packed with wall to wall failure - the Obama era has deeply damaged the viability of that outlook. Remember this moment, because it's a close to recognizing the reality of his situation that Chuck Schumer is ever likely to get. The failure of big government under President Barack Obama is so inarguable that even Chuck Schumer is acknowledging it. ...And then he doubled down on more of the same.
"In order to win in 2016, Democrats must embrace government, not run away from it."
That's it, Dems. After eight years of failure, that's just what people want. Turn your back on the light. Refuse to learn that lesson. That's what we like to see.


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