It’s been 10 days since enrollment began in the Affordable Care Act exchanges, and Fox News’The Five continues to pile on the problems with the law’s rollout. On Thursday’s show, Greg Gutfeld went on a particularly aggressive rant aimed atPresident Obama, who he claimed “didn’t care” enough about his own legislation to see that it was implemented flawlessly. He even suggested that Obama didn’t read the bill before it passed.
After watching video of Obama and his administration officials promising Obamacare would be “ready to go” on October 1st, Gutfeld unleashed his rant:
“You know what kills me about this whole thing? Obama loves to say about everything, ‘We knew it wasn’t going to be easy.’ He says that about everything single thing. Well, guess what? Easy is often a marker of success. When something unfolds, like an Apple launch, it’s because there’s all these people that work really, really hard to make it happen.
He somehow believes that we deserve the punishment of failure. That ‘this is going to hard, never said it was going to be easy, and it’s your problem.’ It shows that he didn’t actually work that hard on this. He never read the bill. He didn’t care.”
Gutfeld’s assertions were not challenged by any of his co-hosts, including the left-leaning Bob Beckel, who previously endorsed the idea to delay aspects of the law at least temporarily if not for a year. Dana Perino hit the administration for promising success and claimed Americans will be fined if they do not have health insurance by December 31st of this year. The actual date is March 31, 2014, but as the AP reported, that means applications will need to be submitted by mid-February.
But it was Andrea Tantaros who wholeheartedly agreed with Gutfeld. “Greg, you’re absolutely right,” she said. “President Obama had his hands off this thing from the beginning. Reid and Pelosi did it. I don’t understand why he doesn’t take the delay of the individual mandate. I’m actually angry that Republicans would offer it. I can’t believe Republicans would give him an out like this.”
The idea that conservatives would suggest that Obama has tried to distance himself from the Affordable Care Act is particularly ironic given the fact that he embraced the term they coined for the law: “Obamacare.”
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