Check out more articles on BuzzFeed.com!“What do we know about them? They’re overwhelmingly male. They’re majority nonwhite. One out of every three lives in California, Florida or Texas.”
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I know, right? Will your friends agree?And while the Obama administration’s delay is not the first — the White House previously delayed implementation of the employer mandate until 2015 among other unplanned postponements — this delay comes at a time when the White House is attacking Republicans for wanting to delay parts of the president’s health care law.
According to Politico, House Republican leadership is considering adding a yearlong delay of the Obamacare individual mandate to a Senate bill that would avert a government shutdown.
“It’s unconscionable to imagine that there are those in the Congress — and now, apparently, because he couldn’t persuade them otherwise, the speaker of the house has joined them — who believe that it is the right thing to do to threaten another recession, threaten economic calamity in this country and the globe, over their ideological desire to defund or delay the Affordable Care Act,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said last Thursday.
Carney hammered Republicans twice more in his Thursday briefing for wanting to delay the law.
“And we can’t go to the nation — or we shouldn’t — they shouldn’t go to the nation and say, we couldn’t get this through normal means, so we’re going to threaten your job, your welfare, your security and future, so that we can defund Obamacare, or delay it — a proposition which would actually increase the deficit,” he said.
“He understands we need to do more, but we need to do it in a way that’s fair to the middle class,” said Carney. “What is not fair to the middle class is a shutdown that hurts the middle class. What is not fair to the middle class is default for the sake of the ideological goal of defunding or delaying the Affordable Care Act, ‘I’m either going to take your job — make sure you lose your job, or take away your access to health insurance’ — that’s the choice.”
In his Wednesday briefing the day before, Carney also hit Republicans for wanting to delay the law in the upcoming fight to fund the government.
“The irony is that they are doing it in the name of trying to defund or delay, or defeat in some other way, a law designed to provide access to insurance for millions of Americans — to health insurance — a law that is already providing tangible benefits to millions of Americans; a law, as I said the other day, that when implemented will ensure that at least close to 6 in 10 uninsured Americans will now have the capability of buying insurance for less than $100 a month.”
Asked about specifically why the White House wasn’t open to Republican-pitched Obamacare delays while the White House had already delayed some key portions of the law, Carney said previous delays were a “very small portion” and “the right and responsible thing to do.”
“On the employer responsibility provision, which represents a very small portion of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, it was the right and responsible thing to do, reacting in part to the requests of businesses to delay implementation of that for a year.”
“As every Republican who is pushing the idea of delaying implementation of the individual responsibility provision, they know that that is the heart of the Affordable Care Act. It is what is essential to ensuring that everyone in your extended family who has a preexisting condition can still get health insurance and isn’t blackballed by the insurance companies to making that work, making sure that the individual responsibility provision is there.”
“Furthermore, delaying it would do what? Add to the deficit,” Carney concluded. “So in the name of deficit reduction, Republicans are saying we should add to the deficit, even as we’re taking away health care for millions of Americans. Seems like a bad idea.”
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People plant some of the 3000 U.S. flags placed in memory of the lives lost in the September 11, 2001 attacks, at a park in Winnetka, Illinois, September 10, 2013.
Credit: Reuters/Jim YoungWASHINGTON | Tue Sep 10, 2013 9:17pm EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Tuesday said it had ordered heightened security of U.S. facilities abroad on the September 11 anniversary, citing the attack that killed four U.S. government employees in Benghazi, Libya, last year.
"The president's national security team is taking measures to prevent 9/11 related attacks and to ensure the protection of U.S. persons and facilities abroad," the White House said in a statement.
President Barack Obama's counterterrorism aide Lisa Monaco has been in charge of reviewing security measures in place for the anniversary, the White House said.
Four Americans including the U.S. ambassador to Libya were killed in an attack on a compound in Benghazi a year ago. The administration initially said the assault grew out of anti-Western protests.
Later, however, it turned out that Islamist extremists launched the attack on the September 11 anniversary. The administration was forced for months to defend its handling of the events at Benghazi, with critics charging officials deliberately played down the nature of the attack to protect the president's re-election bid.
The White House said its first reports were based on incomplete information.
"The events of last year, losing four brave Americans - Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods - brought home the reality of the challenges we face in the world," the White House said.
(Reporting By Mark Felsenthal; Editing by Stacey Joyce)
