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Obama Has “Complete Confidence” in Sebelius

by Keith Koffler on October 30, 2013, 3:16 pm

President Obama is sticking with besieged HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, despite the massive Obamacare website fail she oversaw.

According to Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest:

The President has complete confidence in Secretary Sebelius. She has been responsible, as she pointed out, for the broader implementation of the Affordable Care Act . . . She took responsibility for many of the problems that are evident with the website, but she also deserves credit for the other aspects of the Affordable Care Act implementation that have gone well.

Earnest spoke to reporters aboard Air Force One on its way to Boston, where Obama will deliver remarks on Obamacare and attend a fundraiser.

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Julie Brueckheimer October 30, 2013 at 3:19 pm

She’s also a convenient whipping boy for the princeling.

DeniseVB October 30, 2013 at 3:24 pm

Sebelius will be fine. It was all theater, again, today. She was well coached, didn’t lose it, make any major mistakes, we’ll forget about this like we have the others, right?

AFVet October 30, 2013 at 3:57 pm

WRONG !
We do not forget.

Mandy Manners October 30, 2013 at 3:25 pm

I posted earlier that CNN is reporting that he’ll say that Romney’s insurance plan had problems when it began.

AFVet October 30, 2013 at 4:02 pm

His end goal is a single payer system, it always has been.
That is where we are headed.

CiscoKid October 30, 2013 at 4:18 pm

AFVet
Any doubt I had is now removed. Single payer, here we come.

Julie Brueckheimer October 30, 2013 at 6:25 pm

Wouldn’t they have to pass a different law? Naw, not those characters. Obama is already making changes without Congressional votes.

scottso October 30, 2013 at 3:30 pm

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/30/Sebelius-men-often-do-need-maternity-careew%20Article

Sebelius asked if single men need maternity coverage by Congresswoman, since they are forced to buy maternity coverage.

I would have taken this a step further.
I would have said, “2 gay men, married, why do they need to buy maternity coverage?” So they are discriminating against gays. Right?

KmikeB October 30, 2013 at 3:49 pm

Although I’m a silent dissenter of this legislation, you’re argument doesn’t work considering that Gay men routinely now can adopt a child and as such can be afforded maternity rights.

BB October 30, 2013 at 3:56 pm

If one of them sees an OB-Gyn for 9 months, there’s fraud or malractice somewhere.

AFVet October 30, 2013 at 4:32 pm

Yes the argument does work.
The fact that gay men can adopt a child is an abomination.
It is the result of a society that has fallen from the tenets that we were supposed to adhere to.
The LGBT effort to ruin the morality of this Country has got to be stopped.
They are ruining the Girl Scouts, the Boy Scouts, the Churches, and the military.
And it is condoned and promoted by the White House.
Abortion is permitted and recommended.
The destruction of this Country is underway, and we are watching it unfold before our eyes.

scottso October 30, 2013 at 5:06 pm

why would 2 married men need maternity insurance?
neither can have a baby.
They can adopt a child but that’s child medical insurance.
They can’t even provide insurance to a mother who is their surrogate because they can only be married to one person

A single woman of 65 doesn’t need maternity insurance.

AFVet October 30, 2013 at 5:11 pm

Yes, they don’t, but they have to pay for it.

Mandy Manners October 30, 2013 at 7:00 pm

Do women have to pay for prostate examination coverage?

Scottso October 30, 2013 at 9:43 pm

Of course. This is the land of the bizarro tyrants

DeniseVB October 30, 2013 at 7:28 pm

Perhaps to cover the transgendered men who keep their uterus? There’s been such a case.

Mandy Manners October 30, 2013 at 7:51 pm

How can you have a uterus and a penis, too? Don’t they sew up…oh, forget about it.

Julie Brueckheimer October 30, 2013 at 6:53 pm

We’re talking insurance here not time off from work.

Girly1 October 30, 2013 at 3:37 pm

Romney tried over and over to contact the WH to advise them of the pit-falls of RomneyCare. His calls went unanswered. Now, the coward-in-chief is going to use Romney just like he used Steve Jobs. Wonder when this trip to MA was staged, er…planned….

gracepmc October 30, 2013 at 3:48 pm

She is just one more over paid protected fascist .

Darkangel October 30, 2013 at 3:53 pm

Heckuva job, Kathy.

ol gator October 30, 2013 at 3:56 pm

Would have LOVED to hear her say what her boss says..
” republickens are messin wit me”

rawheadrex October 30, 2013 at 3:59 pm

Why doesn’t BHO do a fundraiser for the $17-trillion in debt USA?

scottso October 30, 2013 at 5:07 pm

he does. it’s called the IRS.

gracepmc October 30, 2013 at 4:04 pm

It never ends. Just turned on the TV – Fox. Obama. Obamacare. Adoring smiling groupies. My sound is off. My tv will be off in a minute.

We are becoming another socialist/fascist country — call it what you will . It is not America. It is not the a free Republic.

Girly1 October 30, 2013 at 4:09 pm

Harlem’s version of Bill Clinton…..

srdem65 October 30, 2013 at 4:13 pm

He just said the “marketplace is open now”. And they cheered, and clapped…they’re so happy!

Then he qualifies it by saying it’s not working right, so apply by mail or phone. good grief.

srdem65 October 30, 2013 at 4:21 pm

I left too soon.
He claims that young people can get this comprehensive insurance for “less than $50 bucks per month, others for about $100 bucks”.
He’s spouting percentages of how many people are now covered in some states…how does he know that?
More clapping, happy shouts.
He’s now claiming that this works because “we” all will pay more in taxes, $250,000 will pay a “little more”.
Yay, the crowd is happy!

OMG, he’s going to explain why people are losing their current insurance…”cut rate plans” “bad apple insurers” “jacked-up premiums” “substandard plans” Butt…..”we said you have to replace them with ……he’s lying through his teeth, he’s lost his mind.
Changing the channel, can’t take no more.

srdem65 October 30, 2013 at 4:22 pm

oops, taking out more hecklers. Not everyone in that small crowd likes what he’s saying.

Star October 30, 2013 at 4:37 pm

Cavuto is taking him apart now….finally…..

gracepmc October 30, 2013 at 4:37 pm

Maybe the best thing to do is just provide him with more and more opportunities to speak and just spin himself into a whirling dervish of indefensible lies.

Under pressure he becomes so enamored with it all that he just spews nonsense rhetoric. That’s what agitators do. The truth, facts etc. are irrelevant. And unless the media and the public and reality call him on it it will continue.

But worse than this man is every single politician and believer who either know or do not care that this is unsustainable.

srdem65 October 30, 2013 at 7:05 pm

Just more thoughts on MrO’s weird speech today;
Does he really believe what he’s telling the public, does he believe that all they have to do is go buy new insurance and all will be well?
He told the crowd out and out lies, lies that not 3hours earlier had been exposed by MrsSillybus herself.
He claimed to know how much someone will pay for this magic healthcare insurance and there is no one out there who can prove it’s true by their own enrollment.
There’s something wrong with this guy, something more than the usual politician’s happy talk.
gee.

Julie Brueckheimer October 30, 2013 at 6:29 pm

Not protesting Obamacare. Protesting Keystone Pipeline.

scottso October 30, 2013 at 5:10 pm

the sad thing is that all of us could debate him better than the Republicans (with some exceptions) could.

So he’s the hero, coming in with the best insurance plans for everyone…making everything better.
better cars.
better health
better homes
better skies
better clothes
better toilet paper
better energy power
better magazine subscriptions
better pancakes
better pencils
better computers
better everything
for less money. all we have to do is bow down before him and the rest of the political tyrants.

Otis Driftwood October 30, 2013 at 5:54 pm

hmm interesting, he just had a meeting with insurers on Oct 23rd, and he makes a statement – ”cut rate plans” “bad apple insurers” “jacked-up premiums” “substandard plans” .. wow, talking about throwing the insurance CEO’s under a bus. Oh wait, I’m sorry, it was just a “bump in the road”.

Susan October 30, 2013 at 4:39 pm

The beltway barnacles need to pull their heads out of the sand and see the totalitarian regime facing US.

“Everybody’s caught up in whether Obama knows the details of this or not, and I’m just gonna tell you: He doesn’t care. These guys have a different agenda. The chaos is what’s crucial here, and with every new day of chaos they’re closer to what they really want, which is single payer. And if the Republicans don’t understand that, they can nail Sebelius all day long and they’re not gonna accomplish anything.” -Rush

AFVet October 30, 2013 at 4:52 pm

Amen Rush.

Otis Driftwood October 30, 2013 at 6:00 pm

sadly, because of all the chaos, everyone has lost focus on all the other “phony” crisis still flopping around out there. But remember, BO & MO’s Magical Christmas tour is fast approaching, budget and debt ceiling be dammed.

Mandy Manners October 30, 2013 at 6:29 pm
DeniseVB October 30, 2013 at 7:35 pm

Wow, from WaPo too. I still say Sebelius is safe, she was a good little soldier today playing theater with the evil Republicans. Other than flag officers, who else in this administration has actually been fired ?

Mandy Manners October 30, 2013 at 7:40 pm

I can’t think of anyone.

Otis Driftwood October 31, 2013 at 12:34 am

the Twitter underling staffer. But only because he was being honest.