Yesterday, immediately after President Obama’s speech on the Affordable Care Act ended, Your World with Neil Cavuto turned to Dr. Ben Carson, Scott Brown, Pat Buchanan, and Larry Sabato to trash the ACA rollout, the website, and more. That made four guests who were anti –ACA – plus the like-minded Cavuto. Apparently, even one pro-Obama and pro-Obamacare guest was too much to ask for.
Here are some “highlights” of the bashing.
CARSON: If the plan is so good, why force everybody into it? Think about many years ago when automobiles first came out. A lot of people were very opposed to automobiles, and they said ‘I’ll stick with my horse any day.’ …The government didn’t come along and say everybody has to buy an automobile. They just allowed things to happen, people did eventually say ‘Yeah, automobiles are pretty cool,’ and they kept improving.
Comparing the purchasing of health insurance to early model automobiles? That’s not exactly apples to apples.
CARSON: ...I guarantee you, in a few months it’ll be something else (besides the computer glitches), and then it’ll be something else. I mean, just think about it logically: If they’re having this much trouble, having three years to prepare the rollout, how in the world are they going to handle millions of peoples’ health care?
Brown started off having some trouble with a famous quote. “John Adams said, you know, facts are, what did he say? He said, ‘Facts are stubborn things..” Brown later said his “blood was boiling” at President Obama’s comments. Brown called them “disingenuous” and “completely misleading.”
BROWN: The President is misleading the American people (likening Obamacare to Romneycare). …If I was giving any recommendations to the President right now I’d say, ‘Sir, pull everything back, go on hiatus for about 3-4 months, get an American company, first of all, to do the website instead of a Canadian company who we paid $400 million plus dollars. Let’s fix it, let’s test it, and let’s roll it out incrementally like we did in Massachusetts.’”
Cavuto called it “a lack of basic business knowledge problem.”
Brown shot back, “There’s no one there who has any.”
SABATO: No one who’s been around for very long can remember anything as bad as this rollout. …Some of us recall that sign that sat on Harry Truman’s desk “The buck stops here.” Someone should call the Truman library and get a facsimile of that particular little stand for the President’s desk.
BUCHANAN: This is a debacle, the whole thing, not simply the website, but the very fact that (Obama) went out and said, “You can keep your own doctor, you can keep your own plan.” They had to know that was not true.”
Not a single person to praise or even just defend the ACA. Five people ripped it up, ripped the website and ripped the president. Fair and balanced, Fox News style.