ACA data leave GOP exposed
By Juan Williams - The Hill, 04/07/14 06:00 AM EDT
“What a difference a day makes — 24 little hours.” Those lyrics about romance and spring flowers also fit the bill last week for congressional politics and the 2014 midterm elections.
Last Tuesday, the White House hit the 7 million-plus mark for enrolling people in the insurance exchanges set up through the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It was an incredible achievement after the administration wasted two months, a third of the enrollment period, stumbling over a broken website.
Public opinion polls last week showed an immediate jump in support for the ACA. President Obama’s approval ratings, which had been at their lowest levels since he won the White House, started to climb, too.
Also on Tuesday, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) announced a budget that includes the latest of more than 50 legislative attempts by the GOP to kill the ACA. That idea remains very popular among Republicans. But for the rest of the voters in November’s elections, the proposal is just more evidence of how stubborn, extreme elements control Ryan’s party, pushing it to waste time defying the reality that the new law is here to stay.
(More here.)
“What a difference a day makes — 24 little hours.” Those lyrics about romance and spring flowers also fit the bill last week for congressional politics and the 2014 midterm elections.
Last Tuesday, the White House hit the 7 million-plus mark for enrolling people in the insurance exchanges set up through the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It was an incredible achievement after the administration wasted two months, a third of the enrollment period, stumbling over a broken website.
Public opinion polls last week showed an immediate jump in support for the ACA. President Obama’s approval ratings, which had been at their lowest levels since he won the White House, started to climb, too.
Also on Tuesday, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) announced a budget that includes the latest of more than 50 legislative attempts by the GOP to kill the ACA. That idea remains very popular among Republicans. But for the rest of the voters in November’s elections, the proposal is just more evidence of how stubborn, extreme elements control Ryan’s party, pushing it to waste time defying the reality that the new law is here to stay.
(More here.)
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