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so dumb to try and spin this. The best thing Obama could do is just say, lookit, a lot of compromises had to be made to get this legislation through and there were a lot of talking points on both sides that didn't turn out to be true (death panels). Now let's start talking about all the uninsured people who are going to get insurance (as soon as we get that damn website working).
it's a debacle and trying to spin it just creates more ridicule.
But even that statement that just invites more ridicule. How/why was there compromise if he just rammed it through without any Republican support? Nobody is buying that shit. And if there was compromise, (1) what idiot would compromise with someone who they had no obligation to compromise with and who wasn't compromising back; and (2) what idiot would compromise themselves into something this pathetic?
What he should do is a full mea culpa and say, hey, I agree in retrospect that this program sucks ass. We rushed into it in our haste to get something on the books while we had the political opportunity. So we're not going to implement it as written; we will keep its overall concepts in place, but we will make substantial changes before it goes into effect, because that is what is best for the American people. If the Republicans do not agree to implement those changes in the best interest of the American people, then we will make the maximum amount of administrative changes possible that do not require a re-vote (which we are not going to do), and you can blame all future problems on the Pubs and vote them out of office.