exhaustion, really, with all of the bitterness. and they do want to hear the success stories. and we ve got to quit using the word disaster when we talk about the rollout. it had a lot of missteps. it s also major reform we re bringing into play. and the rollout is not now. i mean, the rollout is history. it s where we are right now. and i thought we were in the now business. i mean, when you go into the doctor and he says you re sick, she says you re sick, you re all of a sudden in the now business on getting well. and i can guarantee you, from personal experience, insurance does make you a believer. there is no question about that. it makes you a real believer. jeanne, what about congressional democrats, how can they get on board to make this effective? do they make this the central part of re-election campaign in 2014? i think increasingly, they do. i think now that they have seen we re in the now business and now that they see the federal website works well enough, and will con
teenager trayvon martin. we re just a few days away from black friday. but many of those holiday discounts are a dirty trick. it s part of a plan where they raise prices earlier in the year and lower them for the sale. and it s working. almost 90 million people shops last black friday. analysts say they expect a record 97 million people to shop this black friday. sarah murray is here, a reporter for wall street journal live. so is it a scam? let s just say you re not getting the deal you think you re getting. a lot of that discount is priced in ahead of time. it s not like retailers are suddenly taking a big hit to their profit because they re marking something down 40% for
holidays. and others are singing christmas carols and they don t know if they re going to have the unemployment. they don t know if their food stamps are going to be cut. this is heartless, e.j. i think maybe we should have every member of congress have to watch it s a wonderful life and have to read the dickens story. and sort of try to find a heart on this. yeah. it s really taken and takes you by surprise that unemployment insurance is not some wacky new program. unemployment insurance has been around for a long time. it s worked for us. it doesn t give people a lot of money, but it helps them over a hard time. and these folks have been through hard times for months and months and months. i m going to have to leave it there. e.j. dionne, thank you so much for your time tonight. good to be with you, reverend. coming up, a politicsnation exclusive with speaker boehner. he s happily enrolled into obama care and will tell us how it s
obama care that will remain a problem for the president for months to come as various deadlines are hit in the law. you re right, but this media narrative that obama care is failing misses bay long shot. the actual nuanced situation that we have, the myth of obama care is quote/unquote failure is a product of the republican noise machine that s working to undermine this reform since day one. people are signing up in and the states that are participating they are meeting or exceeding their expect acecaticatioexpect. like california, and kentucky is exceeding expectations. it seems like we re moving once again toward two americas. one america with states that are participating in this thing. and it s working. we re expanding medicaid and getting people into the program. and one america where the governors are working actively to obstruct this thing and people are not getting the health care they could be getting. i think it s true as nancy
something. for the record, if you do want to compare what we re going through right now nationally with what massachusetts went through back in 2007, national enrollment is actually going much faster than it did in massachusetts. in both cases, the first month numbers were really low, but in terms of the percentage of the total number of people that they enrolled in their first year or that are expected to enroll in the first year nationally, the national enrollment pace is five times what it was in massachusetts at this point. and who knows if that will prove to be significant? i mean, massachusetts is a helpful example in that it is a statewide pilot project for this exact policy that we are pursuing at the national level. so it is helpful to look at that, helpful to compare how it worked for them versus how it is working for us now as a nation. massachusetts seven years down the road from putting this policy in place has found that it is working. it took work to make it work. it too