Obamacare numbers huge: Here is a guide to GOP excuse making.
Against all odds and expectations, enrollments in health plans qualified under the Affordable Care Act are surging Monday toward -- and maybe beyond -- the 7-million figure projected by the Congressional Budget Office before Oct. 1, when the open-enrollment period began. The deadline for starting enrollment applications for 2014 plans is midnight Monday.
The surge is creating a big problem for the "train wreck" narrative of Republican opponents of the ACA, who have been holding out hope for Obamacare's utter failure. So the excuse-making has begun.
Before we examine those excuses: You will recall that the budget office reduced its projection of enrollments on individual insurance exchanges to 6 million earlier this year to account for the botched launch of healthcare.gov, the federal enrollment website. Enrollments blew past that mark days ago. If exchange enrollments meet or exceed the original projection of 7 million despite the loss of some six weeks in website functionality in October and November, that would be a testament to the public's latent desire for
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As people figure out ObamaCare works, and that they have been lied to.
I think Mitch McConnell is outta there, but I don't want to jinx it.
What a shame, to get a majority in both houses just as Obama has to leave.
How cool it would be, though, if someone like Senator Warren could walk into his office.
could point to all the people being helped.. ya 
thanks demosincebirth
