President Obama says blame the government, not President Obama. President Obama has found someone to blame for the Affordable Care Act's rolling failures besides Republicans. ObamaCare is the government's fault, not his.
On
Thursday, Mr. Obama dropped by American University for a heart to heart
with Chris Matthews, and the MSNBC host wondered who in the executive branch is
responsible for the botched health-care rollout. Mr. Obama listed a few
impersonal culprits including "cynicism," "Washington gridlock" and "the
management of government," but he then drifted into another classic.
"The
challenge, I think, that we have going forward is not so much my
personal management style or particular issues around White House
organization," he said. "It actually has to do with what I referred to
earlier, which is we have these big agencies, some of which are
outdated, some of which are not designed properly. . . . The White House
is just a tiny part of what is a huge, widespread organization with
increasingly complex tasks in a complex world."
So
after five years, Mr. Obama has discovered government is inefficient
and wasteful, or at least it is when he needs a political alibi.
Built-in
incompetence and bureaucratic inertia are two of the reasons that some
of us opposed handing the feds power over, oh, say, one-seventh of the
economy. But there's a special irony here for Mr. Obama, given that the
cardinal political project of his Presidency is to rehabilitate the
public's confidence in large activist government.
As
recently as Wednesday, Mr. Obama riffed that "government is us" in his
inequality speech that liberals toasted as one of his best. He devoted
his second Inaugural Address to the practical and moral virtues of what
he called "collective action" and tried to convert we the people into we
the government.
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