Posted on May 10 2014 – 4:00 PM – Posted by: Doug Brady | Follow Doug on Twitter!
President Barack Obama took a victory lap the day that the Affordable Care Act purportedly hit its target because, the argument goes, everyone had beaten the stuffing out of him over his administration’s disastrous implementation of the law.
You can’t really blame him, the argument contends.
This is not the first time a president has expressed a rather unpresidential amount of glee over a personal vindication of sorts. Sometimes such arrogance goes unchecked; sometimes it gets checked off in the ballot box.
Historically in Washington, presidential hubris is viewed as an entitlement of the office – although outside Washington, where the view is not seen through the confines of the political bubble, it usually rubs people the wrong way.
In a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, 57 percent of voters said they disapprove of how the president handled it all. The poll also showed that his approval rating is down to 41 percent; 52 percent disapprove of his performance, and 6 percent have absolutely no opinion of him at all.
The numbers for Obamacare in the survey are equally staggering: A majority of respondents said the law’s implementation has been worse than they expected, the cost of health care is increasing rather than decreasing, and the quality of care is getting worse rather than better.
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