December 2, 2013

Healthcare.gov Sign-Ups Increased by Fourfold in November

December 2, 2013 Buck Banks

100,000

Number of people who signed up for health insurance through the online federal exchange last month, a roughly four-fold increase from October, Bloomberg reports.

Obama Assesses His Up-and-Down Approval Ratings

December 2, 2013 Buck Banks

If you remember, I’ve gone up and down pretty consistently throughout. But the good thing about when you’re down is that usually you’ve got nowhere to go but up.

— President Obama, in an interview with ABC News.

Congressional Approval Rating Hits New Low

December 2, 2013 Buck Banks

6%

The approval rating of Congress has hit a historic low, a new Economist/YouGov poll finds.

With Advisers Like These ….

December 2, 2013December 2, 2013 Buck Banks

It may take until 2017. It will work really well then.

— White House adviser David Plouffe, quoted by ABC News, on the implementation problems facing Obamacare.

Everyone’s Missing the Point in the Hobby Lobby Lawsuit

December 2, 2013December 4, 2013 Trish

One of the many hilarious tweets about the Hobby Lobby case. Too bad it also misses the point.

The wonderful website Wonkette dissected former Sen. Rick Santorum’s (R-Penn.) defense of a case the U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to hear, but they only rebutted the most obvious aspect.

The decor and craft merchandiser Hobby Lobby, which employs and targets mostly women, doesn’t think it should have to provide contraceptive healthcare coverage because it is a Christian-owned company. As Wonkette explained:

We are sure that Mr. Santorum would also support an exception where for-profit companies owned by Jehovah’s Witnesses won’t have to buy insurance that covers blood transfusions, and for-profit companies owned by Christian Scientists won’t have to cover anything but a trip to a Reading Room.

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Day: December 2, 2013

Healthcare.gov Sign-Ups Increased by Fourfold in November

100,000

Number of people who signed up for health insurance through the online federal exchange last month, a roughly four-fold increase from October, Bloomberg reports.

Obama Assesses His Up-and-Down Approval Ratings

If you remember, I’ve gone up and down pretty consistently throughout. But the good thing about when you’re down is that usually you’ve got nowhere to go but up.

— President Obama, in an interview with ABC News.

Congressional Approval Rating Hits New Low

6%

The approval rating of Congress has hit a historic low, a new Economist/YouGov poll finds.

With Advisers Like These ….

It may take until 2017. It will work really well then.

— White House adviser David Plouffe, quoted by ABC News, on the implementation problems facing Obamacare.

Everyone’s Missing the Point in the Hobby Lobby Lawsuit

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

“Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

Numerati

+175,000

“The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

$4,600

11

30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%