Steve Doocy began by noting that President Barack Obama will be holding a phone call on Monday night with his repurposed campaign team, Organizing for Action, to allay concerns about the ACA’s implementation.
“Clearly, there’s an effort that the White House, the Administration, needs to shore up support with the left,” Baier said. He said that another indication of this phenomenon was Friday’s vote for a Republican bill which would impose legislative fixes to the ACA. 39 House Democrats voted for that proposal.
“Clearly, there’s a split within the Democratic Party,” Baier observed.
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Eric Bolling asked if Democrats who were not facing potentially tough reelection battles in 2014 would eventually begin to
“While the president came out and said we should be able to fix this with regulations, there are a lot of lawmakers on Capitol Hill who doubt that and think there needs to be a legislative fix,” he added.
Baier later said that Democrats on the Sunday talk shows were obliquely addressing the president’s self-imposed deadline to have the health insurance exchanges website functioning by November 30.
“They’re preparing people to get let down again,” Baier said. “The website will not be fully operational by the end of the month.”
“One in five Americans won’t be able to log on and, so, that’s going to be called success,” he added.
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