{"id":6672,"date":"2013-10-24T10:37:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T17:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=6672"},"modified":"2013-10-24T10:37:15","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T17:37:15","slug":"obamacare-redefines-the-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/obamacare-redefines-the-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Obamacare Redefines the Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/\u00a0NRO’s The Corner<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Democratic senators up for reelection in 13 months are now embracing, in their calls to delay Obamacare, the same themes as did the House Republicans and a few senators a few weeks ago\u2014hoping to preempt mounting criticism. In this surreal landscape, three weeks ago Obamacare was unquestioned \u201csettled\u201d law (despite the fact that the president himself unsettled the law by suspending the employer mandate) that only dead-ender \u201canarchists\u201d and \u201chostage takers\u201d wished to stop or amend.<\/p>\n

Now some Democrats apparently think the law still is fluid, and thus, as we were once reminded, want to go against the administration\u2019s mandate of the last election, the ruling of the Supreme Court, and the majority of the Senate in stopping the federalization of health care. If the rollout of Obamacare gets any more incoherent, soon Barack Obama may be echoing the same concerns of Ted Cruz and the former naysayers in his willingness to suspend or delay his own signature legislation. At that point, do the tea-party \u201cTaliban\u201d become rebranded as prescient, sober and judicious legislators who provided a model for what Democrats now in Johnny-come-lately fashion emulate\u2014or do Democrats up for reelection become obstructionists who need to get over it and move on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/\u00a0NRO’s The Corner\u00a0 Democratic senators up for reelection in 13 months are now embracing, in their calls to delay Obamacare, the same themes as did the House Republicans and a few senators a few weeks ago\u2014hoping to preempt mounting criticism. In this surreal landscape, three weeks ago Obamacare was unquestioned \u201csettled\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[278],"tags":[895,1064,40,527],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-1JC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6600,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/obama-will-cut-a-deal-sooner-rather-than-later\/","url_meta":{"origin":6672,"position":0},"title":"Obama Will Cut a Deal Sooner Rather than Later","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 10, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ NRO's\u00a0The Corner At first glance, the Republicans seemed to be losing the so-called shut-down impasse, inasmuch as Obamacare, as the president termed it, was \u201csettled law\u201d and the Republicans did not have the congressional clout to overturn it. 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