Huffington Magazine Issue 73 | Page 11

Enter bering, blithering, stupid-faced moron — would consider, let alone put into words and enunciate in a public forum. There are real differences between Healthcare.gov and the Iraq War, after all. For example, as Ana Marie Cox at the Guardian points out, the Affordable Care Act, which spawned the Healthcare.gov website, produced a “ruthless, even suicidal political opposition” among Republicans, who recently threatened to shut down the government in an effort to defund it. Democrats didn’t take their opposition to the Iraq War nearly to these extremes — heck, even when they retook the House in 2006 on the explicit promise that they would end the Iraq War, Democrats mostly dithered. As Cox goes on to point out, columnists and reporters of all ideological affiliations have