The Obama administration is in a desperate race against time to stop the bleeding from a huge self-inflicted wound. Last year 80% of people who signed up for ObamaCare paid almost no premium. That is because if you said you qualified for a subsidy, you got the subsidy. No questions asked. So a lot of people signed up, paid a small amount of premium and life was great. Now, when they file their 2014 tax returns they are getting an unpleasant surprise. Suddenly they learn that they didn’t qualify for the subsidy after all. Instead of getting a tax refund this year, they have to pay Uncle Sam back for that subsidy. Oops.
The following article explains what is happening:
What makes this wound hurt even more is that Democrats fought Republican efforts to delay the individual mandate to the bitter end. That’s right folks, Republicans gave them an easy out and they were too stupid to realize it. Democrats own this fiasco. They have owned it from the start when they passed it with no Republican votes. They doubled down on stupidity when they shut down the government rather than consider any changes. One of those changes was to delay the individual mandate.
Democrats are now seeking 13th-hour relief for people caught off guard by the results of that tax “slog.” Liberals who voted against Republican efforts to delay the individual mandate tax are now very concerned about their constituents’ interactions with the individual mandate tax. The Washington Post explores this amusing, predictable political panic in a piece entitled, “Democrats Are Bracing for Another Obamacare backlash:”
This reminds me of a scene from Animal House when the gang had trashed Flounder’s car:
“Flounder, you can’t spend your whole life worrying about your mistakes! You f#**ed up,. You trusted us!
Democrats thought that delaying the individual mandate would destroy ObamaCare. Instead, being too stupid to delay the individual mandate has the potential to destroy the Democratic Party.
Democrats are in near panic, almost begging Republicans to delay the individual mandate. Sometimes, stupidity is its own reward. Watch and enjoy. It is extremely rare to see so many supposedly brilliant and decidedly arrogant people desperately trying to wipe the egg off their collective faces.
“Congratulations America. You messed up, you trusted Democrats. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi were willing to shut down the government in 2013, to make sure you enjoyed this nice little surprise. You sure showed Ted Cruz didn’t you?’ How about a big round of applause. Nice work!”
TDM