Political Quotes

“last week our Nation celebrated America's Independence Day, and the Obama administration took advantage of the holiday to slip out a couple of announcements about its health care law. The first one came late one day as the media and most of the Nation were distracted by their plans for the Fourth of July. The administration finally had to admit to all of America that their health care law is unraveling before their eyes. Several months ago Senator Baucus predicted that the law was headed for what he called a train wreck, and last week we saw the train go off the rails. What happened was the Treasury Department put out a blog post, written by an assistant secretary late in the day on July 2, that said it would postpone the implementation of the employer mandate part of the health care law until 2015. This was one of the signature parts of the President's health care law. Under the law, every employer with more than 50 people working 30 hours or more a week was going to have to offer expensive government- mandated health insurance. Now we have a 1-year delay of this extremely unpopular and damaging Washington mandate. Anytime you see the Obama administration leak news like that late in the day right before a holiday with the President out of the country, you can bet it is bad news for him and for them. Presidents do not delay things that are popular and that actually people want and like. When you see them try to hide it in a blog post, that is another sign.…”