welcome both. susan, are they beginning to get around the initial rollout problems? have they turned the corner? they have certainly turned the first corner. i don t think this is the last conner on the track. they have now succeeded in alleviating those incredible concerns we saw in october when the site clearly wasn t working at all. it now seems clear they are on their way to making the consumer part of the site work. we still have big questions about the back end of the site as with that washington post story who said a third of people enrolled have problems with the information their insurance companies or intended insurance companies have gotten. this is a good first step on what s going to be a long road for the white house. ron, you ve written you think the white house needs a reboot, second term reboot. explain. he s had a miserable year, one of the worst years you can imagine for second term president. to begin with aca, with obama care that s been a disastrous capsto
for large numbers of people and opening things up but let s face it, we are also going to have states including those where they are actively undermining it where it isn t going to be working so well. on that point, then, because today was sort of a day where you have this confluence in washington about the political damage for democrats from the rollout problems they have had so far. in the headline from this cnn poll that came out, in the generic ballot, republicans have recovered. if you dig a little bit deeper and you ask the question, do you think that the problems right now with obama care will be fixed or is it just will it not be fixed? is it a failure. people are saying 54-45. they think it will be south. if you look among republicans, it is overwhelming. three-quarters say it won t be south. the entire republican calculation for the election year in 2014 depends on nothing changing from this moment today. this being the reality of obama care for the next 365 days. absol
unhappy. a few will pay more. there are a handful of them compared to those helps. you know the gop is using the rollout problems to attack the president for being dishonest. listen to this. there are only two explanatio explanations. either they re being honest or they re incompetent. frankly, i don t know which is the worst. it turns out that was a lie. and he repeated it over and over and over again. it should have been done but it wasn t. the real problem the president has is a broken promise. his dishonesty. now, these are the gop s messengers, congressman? i mean, dick cheney and paul ryan lecturing the president on honesty, really? and at the worst, the president misspoke and maybe made a mistake in speaking.
give him his job back. no kidding. i was examining with the microscope, the new york times. earlier i said if the president apologized, it s big news. do you have to apologize? i found it! i used a microscope. right here. this tiny little thing. you found it, though. here it is. it says obama apologizes. see page a-14. on the bottom, how hillary clinton is accepted by the hollywood community. all forgiven from 2012. look at this. everyone can relate to that. meanwhile, 12 minutes after the top of the hour. you heard the president kind of apologizing for obamacare s many technical rollout problems. but one state found a way to make parts of the law work. the governor of the great state of michigan, rick snyder. good morning to you. then one father not loving it. he was told he was an unfit parent because he wouldn t take his kids to mcdonald s. his response when we come back. now let the governor come out
pre-existing conditions who can no longer be denied health insurance coverage? you want to go back, you want to say you are no longer covered any longer. you going to tell the parents of those kids? which one of you is going to stand up and tell the parents of those children the game is over, sorry. that was just a phase. we re back. that was bill pascrell of new jersey last week criticizing his republican colleagues for their fixation of killing the affordable care act. as he pointed out in that clip you just saw, the gop has been blinded by an obsession to destroy the president s health care law. when it comes to an alternative, they have none. despite its rollout problems, it s my view that the president and the democrats at least want to help americans get health care. republicans aren t even trying, aren t even saying they re trying. as pulitzer prize winner columnist notes yesterday, the gop s kill obama care mantra is politics at its worst. quote, so to those republicans prote