0 follows demographic communities. hispanic, asian and pacific islanders, african-americans, indian americans, native americans, women and youth. notice, old white men, not in that list. nine months later, how is that going for them? for everyone who s a value dick tor yan, there s another 100 out there, they weigh 130 pounds and they ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert. barack obama, a lot of things he s done wrong, he s not a traitor as far as i can tell. i ve not come across any evidence yet he s done one thing to harm. you look around the congress, a lot more females in the democrat caucus than there are in the republican caucus. you know, some of our members just aren t as sensitive as they ought to be. now, as my colleague jonathan capehart actually pointed out this week, autopsies are done on okay. so the message i took away from that was, like, we don t have to know how to talk to women because we re i
their goal of using the website by december 1st, but there are many landmines out there, if they can generate good news, a lot is going to explode in the weeks and months ahead. kiki, what about this, because you had the delay in the employer mandate. they promised it would not happen. there s a serious image problem. here s the important thing, an image problem. the reality, as ron said, more and more people are getting coverage. this is big, big change. and with big change comes big challenges. there have been mistakes made. the reality is the only thing that changes the reality on this is as more people become covered, things get better, the program works. what i laugh about, the statement from the republican leaders, is you know, they spent five years screaming they wanted to slow obama care down. when there is a delay, they get all worked up about it. there s a little conflict there. what s important is we are
again, he s tried to bury the bad news around a holiday hoping nobody will notice. these are hardly the actions of a transparent administration. perfect segue to bring in our panel, republican statgist kevin madden. democratic strategist and former senior adviser to the hillary clinton for president campaign, kiki maclaine, and senior analyst and editor of national journal ron brownstein. let s start with you. got the brady bunch here. how big of a deal is this delay? substantively, it s not the biggest problem they have faced. really, it s going to mean that small businesses will continue to operate the way they have been, but i think it shows the fundamental problem they have and how difficult it s going to be to establish any kind of momentum in the program that reverses the negative initial perceptions. they had good news. some of the blue states are accelerating the rate of signps. they appear to be on track of
do. it s really astonishing. these are the risks we have to take to get people insured. look, kevin is right when he talks about how big the change is to one sixth of the economy. what was there before wasn t working. and we re making big change, and the reality is the confidence comes back with every person who becomes insured, and everything that works right will move us forward. this is not a short-term political ploy. this is for the long term, for real reform and real change. it s hard to say that when they re having those cancellations. last word in there. kiki maclaine, kevin madden, ron brownstein, happy thanksgiving. i have a segue meaner than it sounds. from hot air to hot air. this year, high winds could force the famous balloons to stay grounded. they are arguably the most awesome part of the whole
making progress. it s slow progress, but it s steady and real, and there is good news. people are getting signed up, and by the way, on the small business piece, this is a delay, and small businesses can still sign up in the paper way, as understand it. so there s an opportunity for you. what s more important is they re recognizing and acknowledging what is wrong so they can continue to work and fix it. that s the most important thing. kevin, i know you want to get in here. before you respond, let me read you a statistic. 6 in 10 americans still say they oppose the health care law, but the reason continues to be that some people don t think the law is liberal enough. when you take that into consideration, more than half of americans either still support the law or don t think it goes far enough. so take that into consideration here when you are responding. look, i think one of the big problems, and to disagree with kiki, we don t want to delay it or slow it down, what we want to do