The right’s day-after freakout: Conservatives fail to grapple with new Obamacare reality

[DonViejo]

The campaign to discourage Obamacare enrollment failed miserably -- and now the haters don't have a new plan

BRIAN BEUTLER

The two dominant reactions on the right to the news this morning that ACA exchange enrollment cleared seven million last night are as follows:

1). Those Chicago guys are cooking the books.

2). Even granting an enrollment surge, people were required to buy insurance, so, hey, great victory.

These are doubly incompatible talking points. The former alleges the enrollees don’t exist but hints at the idea that genuinely high enrollment would have been a big victory for the administration (presumably because having health insurance is a good thing). The latter allows that the enrollees might exist but suggests they only showed up because they had to, not because the product is something they want.

I’ll allow opponents of the law to sort out which version of events they prefer. But just to lay down a marker, it is possible for conservatives to come to grips the new reality without making up implausible stories about how we got here.

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http://www.salon.com/2014/04/01/the_rights_day_after_freakout_conservatives_fail_to_grapple_with_new_obamacare_reality/

[MADem]

1. The pouty pics illustrating that piece are priceless!!!! Buncha whiners!

Waaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. Oh, and the best one yet is "they must be illegals".