Boehner’s Stunt Backfires
As we’ve noted many times on
this blog, Republicans in Congress have attempted numerous times to derail The
Affordable Health Care Act and have closed the government’s doors in an attempt
to do so. One would have thought the Republicans would have moved on from
attacking Obamacare because of the political backlash they faced from the
shutdown, but the attacks keep on coming and just like many of the attacks they
attempted, it backfired.
In their latest attempt,
Speaker of the House John Boehner took a different approach and attempted to
make a spectacle out of the sign up process when he himself tried to sign up
for Obamacare. Boehner attempted to sign up for the service twice and was bumped
off the server. After being knocked off the server twice Boehner took to
Twitter to tweets his frustration about “trying to sign up for Obamacare.” (1) Thirty minutes after his tweet, Boehner not
only got through the server, he was signed up for The Affordable Health Care
Act and received a confirmation email notifying him of his enrollment.
Democrats immediately took to Twitter and Facebook to blast Boehner for not
only attempting to create a spectacle out of the process, but for continuing to
fail to accept this new law and rally the nation around it.
From a political
perspective, anything Boehner does not only represents himself as the Speaker
of the House but also the Republican Party as he is the leader of the party. It’s
quite clear that the Republican’s will attempt anything they can do to derail
Obamacare and this is just their latest stunt in what appears to be a
never-ending process. To make matters worse, the stunt failed miserably and it
not only made Boehner look childish, but also it made the Republican Party look
petty. (2)
If Boehner really wanted to
make an issue out of a complex sign up process, he and the Republicans could
have worked with The Obama Administration to clean it up and fix the issues
that plague the website, but instead he went for a cheap stunt that backfired.
It’s time for the Republican
Party to accept that Obamacare has been signed, sealed and delivered. As we
have noted on the blog, it’s time for Republican’s to move on to other key
issues such as last weeks post, Immigration or Education which might just allow
them to pickup some much needed momentum heading into the mid-term elections.
If the Republicans keep continuing to try and derail Obamacare, they will lose
the majority they hold in the House and Speaker of the House John Boehner will
no longer be calling the shots.
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