President Obama, in his weekly address, made an appeal for progress when it comes to the Congressional budget rather than talk about the controversy that his healthcare plan, Obamacare, is causing.
To sum up his address, Obama said, “Here’s the bottom line. Congress should pass a budget that cuts things we don’t need, and closes wasteful tax loopholes that don’t help create jobs, so that we can free up resources for the things that actually do create jobs and growth. So the question isn’t between growth and fiscal responsibility. We need both.”
Yet despite the President’s focus on jobs and the economy, Republicans kept up the attack on healthcare issue, and in particular, the performance of healthcare.gov, Obamacare website as well as the insurance cancellation notices.
This comes as a way to repair the damage to their standing at the polls considering how the government shutdown for 16 days and the fighting that is happening within the Republican party has affected their image negatively.
But just as embarrassingly, the healthcare.gov website went down for extended maintenance between 9 PM ET Saturday to 9 AM Sunday ET. If that’s not enough, only 6 people signed up for Obamacare through the website on its first and fewer have signed up ever since.
Yet when it comes to the budget that needs to be agreed upon by December 13 to avoid a shutdown, Paul Ryan and Patty Murray are in a conference to reach a ‘good bargain’ that will not only work with both sides of political divide but turn out to be beneficial for Americans too.