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Reid: It wasn't 'issues' that cost us the midterms, it was that darn ObamaCare website!



Americans think Democrats are doing a great job. Voters are thrilled with the current economy, they love Democrat-backed regulations, and they want Dems to lead the way in the future. That's the message from Harry Reid who, despite virtually every national poll (and a disastrous midterm defeat) suggesting the contrary, has decided that U.S. citizens are deeply enamored with his left-wing policies.
As he tells the New York Times:
“We’re going to have to set up for the new battle, which is going to begin on Jan. 6,” he said. His somewhat belligerent tone contrasts with that of Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the incoming majority leader, who has pledged to be more conciliatory and cooperative with Mr. Reid and his 46 Democrats. But Mr. Reid made clear that he does not trust Mr. McConnell to string together the kinds of grand compromises he has vowed to pursue. He also rejected the notion that Democrats’ defeat in the midterms would engender passivity. And he said that Republicans were simply too radical to put forward an agenda that voters would trust. “They want to eviscerate Clean Air, Clean Water, E.P.A.,” Mr. Reid said, referring to the landmark environmental laws that established new pollution standards and created the Environmental Protection Agency. “Is there enough they can do to help Wall Street? I don’t think so. Big banks? I don’t think so,” he said, adding, “That’s where the new battle is going to be.”

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Never mind the fact that, in Barack Obama, "Wall Street and big banks" have found perhaps their greatest crony ally of all time. Reid needs to stake out some rhetorical territory before the new Congress takes over. So, he's going back to his standard playbook. "Republicans are radical monsters and no one wants them around." There's nothing here you haven't heard from Reid a hundred times before. I'm not sure how he explains this... ...But, hey, admitting the reality of his situation has never been his strong suit. Given that he won't admit that their loss was about ideology and national direction, what does Reid think caused his party's historic midterm defeat? Why, it's that pesky ObamaCare website of course!
He acknowledged that he thought Democrats had been in pretty good shape until just a few days before the election. "Things went south quickly," he said. "But we always thought we had issues on our side." In hindsight, Mr. Reid said, it was easier to see how damaging the mismanaged rollout of the Affordable Care Act exchanges had been. "We never recovered from the rollout because the election became one that was directed toward the president. We couldn't overcome that," he said. Still, he added, "I should have seen it coming."
It wasn't that Reid and Pelosi jammed an unworkable, unwanted, law down the voters' throats. It wasn't that, once the "rollout" happened, the law revealed itself to be the exact sort of massive boondoggle Republicans had been warning people about. It wasn't that the law was so poorly conceived and written that it's achieved the exact opposite of its "lower rates better coverage" goals. ...And it wasn't that ObamaCare has already proven its detractors right in almost every possible way, yet the President is still delaying the "really bad" parts of the law. Nope. It was the "rollout." That gosh-darned website went south and everything was downhill from there. Other things that had nothing to do with the Democrats' defeat?
  • An 18 trillion dollar national debt.
  • The lowest labor participation rate since the 70's.
  • A plummeting Median household income.
  • Failure in Iraq.
  • Failure in dealing with Russia.
  • Failure in handling ISIS.
  • Failure in handling a resurgent Al Qaeda.
  • Constant exploitation of racial tensions.
  • A seemingly constant desire to turn on our allies.
  • The lefts' deeply unpopular immigration stance.
  • The least transparent administration since Nixon.
  • Illegal unilateral actions, supported by Congressional Dems.
Frankly, we should all hope they stick to the Reid Mantra. The less Democrats learn from their failures, the better. As long as they keep pretending that the policies of the last six years have been a popular and political success, the more they'll lose. Mr. Reid? Repeat after me: ...It was just the website... ...It was just the website... ...It was just the website...


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