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Blog No. 20. What now for Republicans? (Schadenfreude is not a policy.)

Schadenfreude: a feeling of enjoyment that comes from seeing or hearing about the troubles of other people.

Republicans may be forgiven if they have indulged themselves in a bit of Schadenfreude over the continuing debacle of Obamacare.  To be sure, that debacle could hardly have come at a more opportune time. The furies unleashed by the website failures and the cancellation of insurance policies served to soften, if not erase, the public disdain for the Republicans’ recent antics: the ill-advised gambits with the government shutdown and the debt ceiling. Nevertheless, those furies, and the agonies they have produced in Democrats, may prove to be ephemeral. A diet of Schadenfreude does not provide much nutrition, and it surely is not a policy.Read More »Blog No. 20. What now for Republicans? (Schadenfreude is not a policy.)

Blog No. 17 Health Insurance Cancellations: The Continuing Mystery and the President’s Tap Dance.

Rinocracy.com was among the first to call attention to the fact that Obamacare had led to the cancellation of hundreds of thousands of health insurance policies with millions more cancellations likely to follow. We pointed out, as others had, that such cancellations appeared to make a mockery of President Obama’s oft-repeated pledge that “If you like your health insurance, you can keep it.” (Special Bulletin, October 27, 2013, “What did the President know and when did he know it (or Who’s minding the store?).”  Indeed, Glenn Kessler, Fact Checker for The Washington Post has now given the President his highest “award:” Four Pinocchios.

Read More »Blog No. 17 Health Insurance Cancellations: The Continuing Mystery and the President’s Tap Dance.