Delays. It was only two weeks ago that the centers for medicare and Medicaid Services declared they didnt have the authority to order such an extension. And then secretary is sebelius testified before two separate committees that the march 31st deadline would not be changed. Listen to these outright declarations that as of today are, well, no longer operative. We have no plans to extend the open Enrollment Period. Open enrollment ends on march 31st. In fact, we dont actually have the Statutory Authority to extend the open Enrollment Period in 2014. Are you going to delay the open Enrollment Period past march 31st . No, sir. The open enrollment deadline that was set to end march 31st will end march 31st. Well, theres the secretary unsuccessfully today explaining the decision that contradicts her own words to congress. Here she is today in full spin mode after a local news anchor pressed her on how this delay could be construed as anything but another delay. Is this an extension, is this a delay, is this another problem . Its none of the above. Its actually a very logical way to make sure people get through the system. What we did in december were doing again, which is to say if youre in line on march 31st at midnight, if youre trying to get through the system and the volume is higher than expected, we want to make sure you actually can complete the process and buy Health Insurance. The president s 37th delay and an extension in the march 31st deadline for enrollment certainly not to much interest to the uninsured in this country. The uninsured apparently dont care about the president S Health Care law according to kaiser poll. That shows 6 million americans are unaware of the deadline to begin with, while half of them plan to remain uninsured no matter what you do with the deadline. My next guest proves with the next delay obamacare does not work. Michael burgess, doctor and congressman. 37 delays on this plan, contradicting exactly what the secretary sebelius told us. Right. This delay not all that surprising, but really it underscores just how desperately bad the real numbers must be. Next week on april 1st, i fully expect the administration or secretary sebelius to come out and say, hey, we did a great job. We almost met our goal, weve got good numbers. But theyre not sharing the real numbers with us. The real numbers. Are one of the things that is frustrating, i think, to all of us is that while we hear about enrollments, which are still sizeable sizeably short of their goals, we dont know what ones are paid for and simply signups, if you will. Correct. And those numbers, im absolutely convinced they know those numbers, but will they share those with us next week . Of course not. Theyll say, were still compiling, the data is raw, we want to give you accurate numbers when we give you numbers. But still, theyll come forward with press conferences and he d heralds and banners saying, we met our goals, we have 7 instead of 6. The problem is who has paid, have the payments been posted, and how many people were previously uninsured . Or someone like myself who previously had a different insurance policy, a catastrophic policy. I got kicked off and then i had to work my way through healthcare. Gov. It took me three and a half months to get through and it was a nightmare. I dont blame anyone who gave up. We dont see, frankly, any improvement here. Poll after poll shows that people just simply dont like obamacare as a law, as a Health Care Insurance plan. And when you talk about the uninsured, the kaiser poll saying basically, to heck with it. Thats the view of the uninsured. Theyre saying they dont want it, dont need it, and meanwhile, the administration is rationalizing, as senator reid did today, the lack of signups by saying condescendingly, those people just dont understand how the internet works. Outrageous. When you stop and think about it, thats an enormously funny statement because al gore invented the internet three decades ago. Of course, they do they get the news from interstate net, th the interny do their shopping on line. For anyone who has tried to navigate healthcare. Gov, i went back to see if it really was as bad as i remembered it. According to them, im still in limbo. Fortunately, the people at blue cross have kindly taken my check and cashed it, and i see it on line, but as far as healthcare. Gov is concerned, im still out there in neverneverland. I certainly sympathize with people who have tried to do this, it is a nightmare. But i also know people my kids age, theyll make one or two passes at it and theyre giving up. Those are the very people they said they had to sign up. I dont think theyre going to get them. The number theyre using is 25 . They need 40 to make the model work. I dont believe, frankly, either of the numbers, but thats just me. Congressman, we appreciate you being with us. Thank you very much. Michael burgess. Thank you. President obama says were not entering another cold war with russia. At the same time, hes calling we asked people a question, how much money do you think youll need when you retire . Then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. I was trying to, like, pull it a little further. [ woman ] got me to 70 years old. Im going have to rethink this thing. Its hard to imagin how much well need for a retirement that could last 3years or mor so maybe we need to approach things dferently, if we want to be ready for a longer retirement. The president is in brussels today. Theyre promising to defend nato member nations and claiming that the crisis in crimea has not brought the United States and russia back to the brink of a cold war. This is not another cold war that were entering into. After all, unlike the soviet union, russia leads no block of nations, no global idealogy. The United States and nato do not seek any conflict with russia. In fact, for more than 60 years, we have come together in nato not to claim other lands but to keep nations free. The American Public not buying the president s apparent newly crafted world vision. In the latest fox news poll, 52 say the United States is weaker and less powerful than six years ago. Joining us now, fox news strategic analyst colonel ralph peters. Ralph, its great to have you with us. The president in europe has made a number of astonishing statements, but one of them id like to begin with. And that is that russia is a Regional Power. Can you imagine what motivated that statement . I certainly can. Utter historical ignorance. Obama never paid any attention to history. And russias only a regional fo power . Nazi germany was only a Regional Power and gave us the holocaust. This guy has no natural frame of reference for anything he says. Hes got speech writers who clearly dont know history, dont even know the terms theyre throwing around. And by the wary, the speech he gave today in brussels was one of the most unfocused speeches ive ever heard. It wasnt even well delivered, which is unusual for obama. He can at least read a script pretty well. One of the things in that speech was trying to convince europeans, apparently, that theyre important people, as if europe had a selfesteem problem. In that regard, i found it, as i say, astonishing, and at the same time he talked about the ukraine and russia not being and the United States not being engaged in a cold war here. He completely blythely ignored the 1994 budapest memorandum that obligates russia not to invade ukraine, it obligates the United Kingdom and the United States to territory sovereignty, and it also obligates us to have acted peremptorily when we knew russia would make such a move to take action or otherwise. This president , as you know, lou, is very good at ignoring anything that makes him uncomfortable, no matter how true or vital it might be. The speech today is worth really looking at. I felt he was lecturing the europeans. The speech today he gave in brussels before the king and queen, before the assembled parliamentarians, it should have been tightly focused on russia, putin, ukraine, crimea, nato, what are we going to do . Instead it jumped all over the place. He started off in ukraine, he lectured europeans on gay rights, he lectures them on immigration, he goes back to ukraine. Then hes talking about his grandfather had to serve the imperial british as a docook. It was an absolute mess, it was stupid, it was offensive, and i tell you, Vladimir Putin is not shaking in his shoes tonight. And it was also wrong because he said putin doesnt have a global idealogy anymore. Oh, really . How about nationalism that tore apart the last two centuries around much of the world, and certainly in europe. Putin and nationalism is making a comeback from india to parts of latin america. Putin does have a nation block around him, iran, syria, venezuela. China usually votes with him. Not on crimea because theyre worried about their own issues, but again, this president , his speech writers dont even check the facts. He gave the speech as if hes tired, pro forma, and oh, yeah, i have to talk to those europeans again and id really rather be playing golf in hawaii. Its a sad day in america when the president makes a shambles of a great opportunity. We need to be standing up to putin. Lou, i have to add this, too. Were obviously not going to use military force in ukraine. Got it. He doesnt have to keep saying it because it sends a message of pathetically cowardly weaknesses. Putin, dont worry, we dont want to fight here. The nato northeastern members must be i cant even say the word on tv. Let me say this about the fact that this government and all of the european leaders as well, those certain members of nato, had the opportunity to act decisively and commensurately to the expressions of the russian government about intervening in ukraine. Because people forget, back on february 6, the kremlin said they may be forced to intervene because of u. S. What they described as u. S. Motivated demonstrations and unrest in kiev. But the reality is that none of those authorities paid attention to you during the olympics and what you said on this broadcast, that as soon as these games are ended, putin will invade ukraine. You were exactly right. And we dont even hear a discussion of what intelligence was available to this administration and why it chose passivity rather than action. Im not talking about military action, but action. I can tell you that we had very good intelligence on this. I cant tell you it made it to the president because his gatekeepers dont let the king hear anything thats uncomfortable. But i dont want to blame the Intelligence Community because i know for a fact they were doing their job. That is good to know. Obama doesnt hes an ostrich. He sticks his head in the sand when something makes him uncomfortable. I didnt have a crystal ball predicting what was going to happen. It was a nobrainer for anybody who knows the russians, who knows putin and who knows elementary human nature. And now were in this mess. And by the way, putin continues to keep us off balance. Were always playing catchup, reacting. The incompetence is immeasurable. And boundless because the european leadership seems to be no better in any respect. Ralph peters, thanks for being with us. Thank you, lou. As we discussed, the president says were not on the verge of a new cold war. Tell us whether you agree . Are we on the verge of a cold war with russia . Tweet us at loudobbsnews hash tag cold war ldt. The service rocked by a third scandal in as many years. This time three secret Service Agents preparing for the president s visit to the netherlands were sent home after one of them drank so much that he passed out in a hotel hallway. The other two were deemed complicit because they did nothing to assist the fallen agent or inform their leaders. Were coming right back. President obamas constant pivots and occasional neglect creating a turn and let burn up. A short word thats a tall order. Up your game. Up the ante. And if you stumble, you get back up. Up isnt easy, and we ought to know. Were in the business of up. 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Lets start with this turn and burn strategy. Obviously its not working too well. The president is upside down in his polling numbers for the seventh consecutive month. You know, lou, some people, everything they touch turns to gold. Right now everything this president touches turns to dust. I mean, this is a president who has been wrong about virtually every major Foreign Policy move, wrong about syria, wrong about libya, wrong about benghazi, wrong about russia, wrong about egypt. I cant name one country on the entire planet where we have a better relationship with that country than we did when he took Office Despite all the promises. And the fact is, every time we get another crisis, his first reaction is to make a speech, and then he completely turns from what he even said. I think nobody is listening anymore. This is a president whose speeches have become little more than background noise. Do you remember when folks called this man a great orator, maybe the best speaker maker in the early days who had ever taken the white house . It was sort of an amazing statement even back then. But now your evaluation of his oratorical and rhetorical ability. Well, lou, if you make great speeches, you have to do great things to back it up. And great speeches without great actions just become noise. And thats what i think has happened to this president. When he campaigned back in 2008, he made great speeches, but lets remember what those great speeches were about. It was about bringing america back together. It was about ending the harsh partisanship that had so divided our country. It was about lifting people up. It was about making america a place where people remember these words hope and change. Well, now about the only thing people really are hoping for is that we get some change and that after we pay obamacare we have some change in our pockets left over. This is a very depressed nation, his poll numbers reflect it. The fact is he has not changed his strategy. Hes still making speeches but theyre harsh, theyre partisan, theyre accusatory, he never accepts responsibility, hes always moving on to Something Else, and i think thats why hes become virtually irrelevant at this point of his presidency. Forget the partisanship. I admit im republican. I add mim probably not going t be for a lot of his policies. This is for america and that saddens me. This president , it seems to me, has completely validated the term lame duck. Hes done so very early. Hes t the only person with a worst sixyear polling set of numbers was george w. Bush since world war ii. But hes not going to be on the ballot, as they say, in november. And the republicans are making a lot of noises about obamacare, but obamacare, it seems, if this president is largely irrelevant doesnt carry quite the scathing indictment of the Democratic Party that it might otherwise if he were more irrelevant, and frankly, more engaged. Well, in a way you say hes not on the ballot, and his name is not going to be on the ballot, but hes on the ballot. Every policy that hes pushed, whether its obamacare, whether its a radicalization of american culture, and i think what this chief counsel to the vatican said, you alluded to it in the introduction, is exactly right. This is an administration that has not become indifferent to religion, its become hostile. When this administration always sides with the most secularist voices popular to tell military chaplains put your bibles away and hide them. Dont say anything about god or jesus because somebody might not understand it. You cant keep doing that kind of thing and have any credibility left as a president who is in touch with what i call the roots of america. And strongly and powerfully the roots of america, but at the same time, governor, i have to say to you, that comment from an official of the vatican about our president is, to me, highly offensive, and i dont think should be put up with by any of us. I mean, my quarrels with his policies if i may if i may i may have my quarrels with his policies, but i dont want the vatican, i dont want putin, i dont want any other head of state running their mouth off about our president. Period. Lets settle it at the polls. The church has a moral authority, lou, they have a moral authority to speak out on issues that touch the religious lick eith liberty of this country. The bishop who said that, bishop burke, is an american. I dont care if hes an american, hes speaking for the vatican. Good for him. I take the position im glad the church, whether its the chief counsel or the pope himself, would speak out on moral issues. What are they going to talk about . Theyre not going to talk about the ncaa bracket, so i want them to talk about the immorality of every issue. Before they go to the ncaa brackets, id like them to talk about listen to go ahead. Lou, to barack obama, the ncaa bracket is a religious issue. Its the one thing that he is committed to. Its the one thing hes focused on. And im convinced that this president and his administrat n administration, as the official said, progressively turned increasingly against people of faith. Thats why we have the hobby lobby case thats going to be arg