Columnist Charles Krauthammer told Fox
News Tuesday that the president’s last-ditch campaign to save Obamacare won’t
work, saying it’s “sort of touching the way Obama believes in the power of
rhetoric — his rhetoric — in denying and trumping reality.”
On Fox’s “Special Report,” host Bret Baier
spoke with Krauthammer, columnist George Will and NPR’s Mara Liasson about the
pileup of problems plaguing the president’s flagship achievement. Each panelist
expressed skepticism over Obama’s new campaign to rebrand and remarket
Obamacare.
“Well, I suppose it’s fitting that this
president, who’s the first president whose campaign for the presidency was his
qualification for the presidency, is now campaigning yet again,” said Will. “And
as he speaks — the more he speaks — the more carefully you have to parse his
sentences.” The columnist rattled off the website glitches, low enrollment
numbers and court challenges all threatening Obamacare. “Aside from that,
everything’s going swimmingly,” he said.
Liasson said the website was improving and
“now the health care law itself gets tested.” She noted that Republicans are no
longer talking about repeal. “I think they feel that they’re going to let this
law collapse under its own weight.”
Krauthammer told panelists he didn’t
“agree that the website issue is over,” calling it a “catastrophe” and the law
“absolutely nonfunctional.” He seemed shocked at the president’s hope that a
public relations campaign will turn things around.
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