Well, you could interpret the parts where he says “I was trying to protect her” as patronizing, if you choose to believe that those things he did were things she didn’t need.

it’s doubtful she needed or asked for his protection or his prayers.

So what you’re saying is that the EPA is bullshitting us when the EPA says that the EPA fucked up?

Errrrr ...

Well, if you’re keeping score at home, then you would see that this article is about a federal regulator acknowledging that it too could have done more.

I dunno. I read this as them saying that the blame shifting they did earlier doesn’t change the fact that they should have raised more of a ruckus earlier.

That’s not a politically viable option in 2016 and it won’t be any time soon so we have to work within the law that’s passed.

My Chainsmoker Arc:

If he’s smart, he’ll just be ready to downplay his off-the-cuff failure as him doing a Michael Scott impersonation.

No.

This guy gets it.

Well, economics is the dismal science and political science is it’s inbred half cousin who is also pretty dismal, so when you have to blend the two together in order to discuss workable policy outcomes that can have a positive effect, the results will rarely be pretty and will almost never represent what anyone, left…

Hey, I couldn’t agree more, which is why I made the point that while you may hear Hillary talking about the ACA needing to be fixed, you won’t hear her saying that the fix has to find a way to make the economics work better for The Big Bad Insurance Companies.

“I’ve been shocked at the lack of questions on climate change,” said climate scientist Kerry Emanuel in an interview with The Guardian

Well, you have to make the math work, and if you can’t, you have to do something different to try and make it work.

The part she left out was that the ACA needs the power to make the deal better for health insurance providers. A truth that isn’t palatable with voters on the left (as you so aptly demonstrate with your last paragraph), while on the right they continue to cry about the entirety of the ACA.

Yes, of course that is true, but Hillary will never openly say why it isn’t working, and the actual things they are going to have to do to fix it will not be popular with progressives in the slightest.

That’s a really weak way to answer it. The part that progressives and Democrats do not want to discuss is that the ACA needs more power in order to make participation more attractive to health insurance providers.

The only thing more pathetic than this recycled “media bias” argument is the fact that it continues to be a good drum to beat on in order to keep the Republican base on target.

If Biden doesn’t wind up going out Thelma and Louise style one day far, far far in the future, I’m going to be sort of disappointed.