Dear Mark: The president has done it again; he's blaming Republicans for the problems with Obamacare. He implied that the Republicans are "invested in failure" and that's why it's doing so poorly. He sounds so desperate; why doesn't he just go ahead and blame Bush while he's at it? — No Time for Whiners

Dear No Time: Here's what Obama actually told a group of CEO's this week: "One of the problems we've had is one side of Capitol Hill is invested in failure."

The president does sound desperate — as he should be. Obama's signature legislation is exploding in his face and he has no one to blame but himself and members of his own party. He can try and blame Republicans, but it's pretty easy to point out that Democrats wrote the law, Democrats voted for the law, Democrats promoted the law, Democrats lied about the law, Democrats oversaw implementation of the law and now Democrats are the only one's defending the law. Sounds to me if anybody is invested in failure, it's the Democrats.

Dear Mark: Harry Reid has pulled a fast one by changing Senate rules concerning the filibuster. This appears to be another power grab by Democrats so they can cram more bad laws down the throats of the American people, like they did with Obamacare. Reid has threatened this maneuver before without pulling the trigger, so why now? — AJ in PA

Dear AJ: As much as I disagree with Reid, he's no dummy when it comes to reading the political tea leaves and subsequently using the Senate rules to his advantage. They will not state this publically, but Senator Reid and President Obama both understand that the Democrat brand has been tarnished by Obamacare, and that Democrats could be the minority party in not only the House but also the Senate after the 2014 elections.

With that in mind, if the president hopes to get any more of his liberal agenda implemented, time is short. President Obama has shown his propensity for governing through executive order on numerous occasions without going through the normal channels provided in the constitution. Dirty Harry's underhanded Senate rule change gives Obama one more tool and will allow Obama to pack the federal courts and agencies like the EPA with far left ideologues without any resistance from the Republican minority.

Dear Mark: President Obama has got to be kidding. He actually said he needs to rebrand Obamacare, as if he can fool us into liking this horrible law with some clever commercials and pamphlets. It's true that he conned half the country into voting for him twice but the other half ain't going to fall for it. Can he possibly be this arrogant or is it stupidity? — Big Tex

Dear Big Tex: Best I can tell it's a combination of both. To begin with, Obamacare was a poor piece of legislation that violated all kinds of economic laws, budgetary constraints, and actuary tables, not to mention human nature. That puts it under the category of stupidity. The arrogance comes into play when, despite the glaring problems, he stubbornly continues to tell the country how good Obamacare is for them and their "substandard" insurance policies.

Referring to the Affordable Care Act, President Obama told a conference hosted by the Wall Street Journal, "we're obviously going to have to remarket and rebrand, and that will be challenging in this political environment."

Almost from the onset, team Obama has claimed the reason people don't like Obamacare is simply a messaging problem and not a policy problem. So as far as "rebranding," Mr. President, you can spray paint that piece of cow manure gold, but that doesn't make it 14 karat.

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