House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has entered the ultimate, mortifying stage of denial the place one flails feebly about within the determined search for an argument that would possibly generate some traction.

The mind-blowing crumple of Democratic standing in public opinion polls has prompted Democrats to voluntarily chip away at the very financial groundwork of the Inexpensive Care Act – a prospect that any pundit would have deemed unthinkable just three weeks in the past.

Democrats are terrified, however Pelosi, an old pro, never desires to let them see her sweat. To that finish, right through a press conference with her fellow Democratic leaders on Friday, Pelosi tried to persuade the media that there’s very little outrage being directed at the Democrats first of all. In point of fact, Democrats had been undermining a foundational part of the ACA for no explicit cause.

The minority chief began her brief remarks via apologizing for President Barack Obama’s apology. Why should he have apologized for something that used to be happening as just about an act of God? That will be like apologizing to the Rockaways for Hurricane Sandy.

“There is nothing within the Reasonably priced Care Act that mentioned that your insurance company will have to cancel you,” Pelosi stated. “That’s now not what the Inexpensive Care Act is set.”

It sounds as if, spiteful insurance companies that dared agree to the law were merely seeking to stick it to the president.

“Did I ever tell my constituents that if they like their plan they might preserve it?” Pelosi later asked. “I would have if I’d ever met anyone who appreciated his or her plan, however that was no longer my expertise.”

… It seems that – and I’m just throwing this available in the market – her expertise was no longer sufficiently informative about what the nature of the general public response would be to thousands and thousands of American citizens shedding their health coverage and being requested to pay extra for coverage they do not require. That’s, presuming they can even stable new coverage.

A sentient being might even be able to await that almost all of American citizens would react poorly to being put in that place. It will most probably serve Rep. Pelosi to consider, presuming her informal survey ever even came about, that her San Francisco district is it sounds as if not particularly representative of the broader public.

In fact, protecting that little tidbit in mind would very much advantage her birthday party’s participants within the lower chamber.

h/t Hot Air

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