These Dems give new meaning to the expression "crashing a party--"

[Jackpine Radical]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A month after emerging from a government shutdown at the top of their game, many Democrats in Congress newly worried about the party's re-election prospects are for the first time distancing themselves from President Barack Obama after the disastrous rollout of his health care overhaul.

At issue, several Obama allies said, is a loss of trust in the president after only 106,000 people — instead of an anticipated half million — were able to buy insurance coverage the first month of the new "Obamacare" websites. In addition, some 4.2 million Americans received notices from insurers that policies Obama had promised they could keep were being canceled.

"Folks are now, I think in talking to members, more cautious with regard to dealing with the president," said Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, the senior Democrat on the House Oversight Committee and one of the first leaders in his state to endorse Obama's presidential candidacy six year ago.

Cummings, the White House's biggest defender in a Republican-controlled committee whose agenda is waging war against the administration over the attack in Benghazi, the IRS scandal, a gun-tracking operation and now health care, said he still thinks Obama is operating with integrity. But he noted that not all his Democratic colleagues agree.

http://news.yahoo.com/dems-obama-head-2014-distant-determined-124424168--politics.html

Not also the headlines of "Related Stories--" I think Yahoo's on a mission here, folks. What happened--did the Koch Brothrs just buy them out?

Related Stories

GOP sees health care law as big 2014 opportunity Associated Press
Health law's troubles give GOP a much-needed boost Associated Press
Democrats scramble to fix Obama's troubled health care law Yahoo News
Obama's looming deadline to win back his own party The Week (RSS)
Policy cancellations: Obama will allow old plans Associated Press

[geardaddy]

1. W in TF? n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

2. No shit.

[LAGC]

3. Yahoo's been that way for quite some time.

Take a look at any given article's comments section... they are "catering to an audience," to put it mildly.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. I'm getting used to seeing the Sock Puppet Gallery all over the 'Net.

If those twerps aren't being paid, then they got a lot more time on their hands than I do.

[kentuck]

4. It's the Democrats' baby.

They cannot disown it. They chose to adopt the orphan of the Republican Party and now are responsible for its survival and education.

[Laelth]

6. These cowards need to remember Truman.

No apologizing for the ACA!

I've seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the fair Deal, and says he really doesn't believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don't want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman

-Laelth

[Jackpine Radical]

7. Absolutely.

I can't count the number of times I've posted that Truman quote around here myself.