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In these days of partisan division and epistemic siloing we all live in bubbles of a sort. But some, quite simply, do so so much more than others. Remember: once you unskewed the polls, Romney was really winning. And sometimes, sleep walking, Karl Rove is still looking for those beleaguered Fox News number crunchers because, gosh darnit, Romney is still picking up votes in Ohio. Some are still living in that own private Ohio. Today though the long twilight struggle between numbers and the power of positive thinking has moved on to the fresh fields of ObamaCare.
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Now that the implementers managed, improbably, to not only get respectable numbers but actually hit the notional enrollment targets, along with other positive metrics, the 'Obamacare is failing' meme just isn't very credible anymore. So she could resign or be pushed out (whatever happened) with little cost.
This is, in a word, obvious.
I flagged this point on Twitter not long after the news broke and I got a front seat view into the alternate reality where Obamacare is tumbling into collapse and Sebelius's resignation is just confirmation of what the unskewers have been yelling over the din of MSM propaganda for all this time. In other words, Sebelius's ouster was the final white flag verdict on Obamacare.
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(angry tweets I can't embed here)
In other words, the numbers from HHS and the states are fake. No one has paid their premiums. No young people have signed up because, well, where are the numbers? Why isn't Obama releasing them? Everybody has lost their insurance and prices are skyrocketing.
....
Now that the implementers managed, improbably, to not only get respectable numbers but actually hit the notional enrollment targets, along with other positive metrics, the 'Obamacare is failing' meme just isn't very credible anymore. So she could resign or be pushed out (whatever happened) with little cost.
This is, in a word, obvious.
I flagged this point on Twitter not long after the news broke and I got a front seat view into the alternate reality where Obamacare is tumbling into collapse and Sebelius's resignation is just confirmation of what the unskewers have been yelling over the din of MSM propaganda for all this time. In other words, Sebelius's ouster was the final white flag verdict on Obamacare.
....
(angry tweets I can't embed here)
In other words, the numbers from HHS and the states are fake. No one has paid their premiums. No young people have signed up because, well, where are the numbers? Why isn't Obama releasing them? Everybody has lost their insurance and prices are skyrocketing.
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