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http://www.politicususa.com/2013/12/01/howard-dean-republicans-media-questioning-obamas-competence.htmlHoward Dean Goes Off On Republicans and the Media for Questioning Obamas Competence
By: Jason Easley
Sunday, December, 1st, 2013, 4:29 pm
After having to listen to Candy Crowley and Rick Santorum question President Obamas competence, Howard Dean went off and called the whole thing right wing talking point nonsense.
Video at link~
Transcript:
CROWLEY: Senator, I think you have a differing view just because I was watching your reaction as Joe was reporting.
SANTORUM: Yes, this really feeds into the presidents competence. Thats really the question that the people have, is the president competent to do his job? And Obamacare is certainly front and center. Whats going on in the Middle East is another area. Theres a whole group of issues now that people are questioning. And you talk to anybody. Ive talked I talked to an insurance some people in the insurance industry this morning. And they told me that most of the front end may be looking good. People may be able to get on and get responses, but the information coming out the back end to the insurance companies is still garbage. Its undecipherable. And its requiring them to, on a case-by-case basis, actually have someone go because theres misinformation, theres triplicates, theres husbands labeled as wives. Theres all sorts of problems with the data coming into the insurance companies. So you think you may have signed up, but you may not, because the insurance company may not have the data available to actually put you in the system.
CROWLEY: And Governor, to pick up on sort of the broader point from Senator Santorum. And that is that there has been this unease that has that started, you know, probably earlier than the launch of the website, but nonetheless has continued.
I want to show you a CNN ORC poll. This is a good track, bad track, how well do you think things are going in the country today question. And right now, 59 percent of the country thinks things are going badly.
Now, that is up from September. It is nine points above April. So there has been this steady deterioration for how people feel about the direction the countrys going. People no longer see President Obama I think only 40 percent of people see President Obama as able to kind of run the government. Is there that kind of lasting damage? Thats certainly what Senator Santorum is talking about.
DEAN: No, I think theres no evidence for that at all. Again, I think thats right-wing talking points against this president. Theyve from day one when he got in there, they tried to undermine him as a human being. And I think thats, you know, its not a tactic thats good for the country. So my view is
(CROSSTALK)
CROWLEY: Governor, its true you had some its true that you had reservations. You didnt like this when it first rolled out, right?
DEAN: No, this is look, this is not from my point of view an ideal plan, but this is what passed the Congress and this is the law. And Romney did the same, something very similar in Massachusetts, and its worked very well. So who am I to say that the court the Supreme Court and the Congress of the United States is wrong all the time? I think we ought to make this thing work. Its the law. It can work. Mitt Romney proved it did work in Massachusetts, where 98.5 percent of all of Massachusetts citizens have health insurance. I fail to see this has anything to do with the presidents competence, other than the procurement process, which has been screwed up for many years, long before this president ever got into office.
So I lose my patience with this nonsense. And I do believe that the facts are going to be determined by what happens on the ground. And I think three months from now, a lot more people will have health insurance, and a lot more people will be happy with all of this.
SANTORUM: Yes, this really feeds into the presidents competence. Thats really the question that the people have, is the president competent to do his job? And Obamacare is certainly front and center. Whats going on in the Middle East is another area. Theres a whole group of issues now that people are questioning. And you talk to anybody. Ive talked I talked to an insurance some people in the insurance industry this morning. And they told me that most of the front end may be looking good. People may be able to get on and get responses, but the information coming out the back end to the insurance companies is still garbage. Its undecipherable. And its requiring them to, on a case-by-case basis, actually have someone go because theres misinformation, theres triplicates, theres husbands labeled as wives. Theres all sorts of problems with the data coming into the insurance companies. So you think you may have signed up, but you may not, because the insurance company may not have the data available to actually put you in the system.
CROWLEY: And Governor, to pick up on sort of the broader point from Senator Santorum. And that is that there has been this unease that has that started, you know, probably earlier than the launch of the website, but nonetheless has continued.
I want to show you a CNN ORC poll. This is a good track, bad track, how well do you think things are going in the country today question. And right now, 59 percent of the country thinks things are going badly.
Now, that is up from September. It is nine points above April. So there has been this steady deterioration for how people feel about the direction the countrys going. People no longer see President Obama I think only 40 percent of people see President Obama as able to kind of run the government. Is there that kind of lasting damage? Thats certainly what Senator Santorum is talking about.
DEAN: No, I think theres no evidence for that at all. Again, I think thats right-wing talking points against this president. Theyve from day one when he got in there, they tried to undermine him as a human being. And I think thats, you know, its not a tactic thats good for the country. So my view is
(CROSSTALK)
CROWLEY: Governor, its true you had some its true that you had reservations. You didnt like this when it first rolled out, right?
DEAN: No, this is look, this is not from my point of view an ideal plan, but this is what passed the Congress and this is the law. And Romney did the same, something very similar in Massachusetts, and its worked very well. So who am I to say that the court the Supreme Court and the Congress of the United States is wrong all the time? I think we ought to make this thing work. Its the law. It can work. Mitt Romney proved it did work in Massachusetts, where 98.5 percent of all of Massachusetts citizens have health insurance. I fail to see this has anything to do with the presidents competence, other than the procurement process, which has been screwed up for many years, long before this president ever got into office.
So I lose my patience with this nonsense. And I do believe that the facts are going to be determined by what happens on the ground. And I think three months from now, a lot more people will have health insurance, and a lot more people will be happy with all of this.
Former Gov. Dean finally said what Democrats should have been saying for weeks. This is all nonsense. Republicans and their media allies need to be called out on it. Candy Crowley was wrong. We do not need to wait and see if the website works when people are on it. The website has been working for weeks with people on it. Between Sunday and Tuesday of last week, 20,000 people signed up.
Only an idiot who hasnt been paying attention, or completely insulated inside the Beltway lazy journalist wouldnt know that. The Republicans have managed to trump up the ACA website issues to the same level as their other bogus scandals.
Howard Dean had enough of this nonsense, and he called it out. Democrats out number Republicans in this country, and they to a person should be doing the exact same thing.
It is time to stand up, fight back, and kill this lie.
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Howard Dean Goes Off On Republicans and the Media for Questioning Obama’s Competence [View all]
babylonsister
Dec 2013
OP
They've been trying to project Bush's* shortcomings onto Obama since day 1. eom
TransitJohn
Dec 2013
#2
Exactly. Except they tried to portray Biden as the one who is always making "gaffes"
arcane1
Dec 2013
#7
He has long been one of the most articulate Democrats who is allowed airtime
BeyondGeography
Dec 2013
#5
AMEN!! The KKK was first implemented to keep blacks from voting Republican, now Republicans are play
uponit7771
Dec 2013
#61
Just watched this below... Ummmm, I'm not seeing what you're seeing. Sorry.
ScreamingMeemie
Dec 2013
#26
He was good and said the right things. Delivery could have been a little better, but he was GOOD.
RBInMaine
Dec 2013
#37
Pointing out the president is getting streamrolled? Don't think so. Just because Democrats do not
Thinkingabout
Dec 2013
#40
VIDEO: Howard smacks GOP toadies. Rick, go back to World Nut Daily. Candace, adopt a rapist!
freshwest
Dec 2013
#25
Yeah Ricky FROTHY, you are so competent aren't you? How did your last TWO elections go? ASSHOLE !
RBInMaine
Dec 2013
#30
Free stuff like the free stuff a company he did vulture capitalism on received $44M to replace the
Thinkingabout
Dec 2013
#41
HOWARD IS AWESOME. He is saying just what EVERY Democrat/Progressive SHOULD be saying NOW !
RBInMaine
Dec 2013
#35