it was a very thin response from the department of the hhs department to address the initial inquiries. and it hasn t gone really well. and i think that s the problem. and that s where the secretary now has to really point the nose into the wind here because this has now become an issue that the president himself is being asked about. and that just can t happen if he doesn t want to remain on thin ice. so i think it s going to continue unless secretary price comes out directly apologizes and puts in place much stricter standards on what his travel is going to be here going forward. because otherwise, if it this continues to be a problem for the president. he could be, he could be in trouble. now he does have very strong support among folks in congress and this is at a time where they are continuing to still look to repeal and replace obamacare. he is a valued member of the cabinet. i think that plays in his favor, but he has to rectify this quickly. i also want to get your guy s vi
down the road. the questions raised today are what happens next. kasie talked a little buiit abo whether democrats now come to the table. joe manchin has tried to start a bipartisan working group, but the big wild card here is donald trump. at the white house yesterday after this news broke that the health care bill was dead, trump himself said that he wanted now to let obamacare fail. as someone who administers the health care law, the hhs department, cms department administers law, there is a lot of operational control they can have to facilitate its failure. if you step back and think about it, it s a political strategy with a great morality deficit. they re saying we re going to allow people to suffer in the individual market, potentially in medicaid so we can compel democrats to come to the negotiating table. and they re being overt about
every movie ever made and you re going to try and sign up for obama care and we ll see which happens first. okay. okay. so why now? why is kathleen sebelius resigning six months later when the news about the affordable care act is suddenly worth crowing about? is she really getting the chance to go out on a high note or is her very departure reminding everyone of the law s shaky start and why does the white house seem unwilling to celebrate a hard won success? we still have molly ball with the atlantic and joining the table is beth fui, and sarah cliff, senior editor at the new website vox. so this sebelius departure this week look, she issued an e-mail i think to the hhs department. she spelled her successor s name wrong. she was at the press conference. turned out she had forgotten a page and had to stop her speech awkwardly. some people said this was a very fitting reminder of her tenure. i can t help but look at this and say look, if you were going to fire her, if you thought
on tuesday, the website funny or die posted president obama s interview with actor zach galifianakis. the network morning shows repeatedly ran clips, more than eight minutes that morning alone. later that day, the hhs department released enrollment numbers showing 4.2 million people have signed up for obamacare. 25% young people, far below the original goal of 7 million participants and about 40% of them supposed to be young people. cbs devoted a total of eight and a half minutes to the interview on their morning and evening news. on tuesday and wednesday. nbc and abc spent four and a half. and three and a half minutes respectively. cbs was the only network to even mention the low enrollment numbers and they spent just ten seconds on that subject. a saudi cleric has issued a fatwa. a legal opinion in the islamic faith against all you can eat
birtherism or the new welfare. the new welfare ad that mitt romney is running? here are ads that mitt romney is running, i would say completely without a factual basis, just to set up the policy thing here, governors have been asking for waivers to experiment with the method by which they implement taniff, a welfare reform bill and barack obama hhs department granted waivers to experiment, and the romney campaign seized upon that as an example of undoing welfare reform. these are examples of the ads he is running. my mother didn t learn to read or write, didn t have real skills to fall back on, so ended up on the welfare system. that s how i grew up. president obama stripping work out of welfare some of many success stories of the welfare reform of the 90s, where families otherwise might have