right. gregg: the mass coverage of the government shutdown. how about now? well, i feel like as soon as the shutdown was resolved, we started to see the front page coverage of what was going on with obamacare, and it s been pretty critical, i would say. i think that the local news outlets that are doing some of the positive coverage are probably talking about the state exchanges which are different. gregg: right. they re actually functioning, most of them are functioning versus the federal exchange which is where they re having the so-called glitches. so i think that the coverage has been pretty accurate in terms of being critical of that federal exchange. gregg: ezra klein was a columnist for the washington post and some other news organization, and he s sort of a fan of president obama, i don t think if you can really call him a liberal or not, he s always an interesting breed, he, you know, called the whole rollout a complete failure, and then he was absolutely ripped by a
she has nine of her colleagues along with herself making ten senate democrats who want to make changes to the president s health care law, specifically they want to extend the enrollment deadline past march 31st of 2014, that s raising questions about whether they may also go a step further and delay the actual with individual mandate, those fines that would kick in you haven t gotten insurance. so that puts more pressure on the president because meanwhile, republicans like dale issa saying they may subpoena documents at healthcare.gov to see who at the white house knew what was going on, and then you have republicans like joe barton, he says he s looking forward to kathleen sebelius coming in next wednesday, because he has a lot of questions when she testifies. take a listen. obamacare s going to be hugely expensive. it s not going to save money, it s going to cost money. and then i ll ask her to support either making it voluntary or delaying it until we get it right. and if we can
two democrats not up for re-election. liberal connecticut senator richard blumenthal and moderate senator, joe manchin want new legislation. sponsored with john any isakson of georgia to delay the individual mandate a year. you look at the 11 days of the shutdown, and compare that to how many days we re going to be watching these critical obamacare rollout stories. something tells me the critical stories about obamacare rollout will last a lot longer than 17 days. reporter: in fact we ve already been told by computer experts this thing could go on for months as they try to rejigger the actual sign-up and enrollment. sabato hurt republicans and helped democrats politically. gop needs to pick up six seats in the senate, in a second year presidency that is historically get progressively worse of party in power in the white house and obama white house is seeing a
preview what will happen next year. patti ann? jenna: carl, thanks. jon: monica crowley, good to see you. it was a bludgeoning on capitol hill on the first congressional hearing for obamacare. conspicuously absent, kathleen sebelius. by the way, members of congress and congressional committees have been trying to get her to come down to the capitol building and testify about obamacare since august. she has refused or declined. and she was a no-show yesterday as well. what do you make of that? yeah, i noticed that, gregg, when i was watching hearingings yesterday at fox. nobody from hhs, including kathleen sebelius was on the seen to make herself available to answer questions. that tells me nobody really knows what to say at hhs there are no, there are no explanations here to be had of. and contractors pointing the finger of blame at hhs. exactly. it was an epic buck-passing session yesterday.
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