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"Disaster," "embarrassment," "humiliating," and 'train wreck" are just a few of the colorful terms being used to describe it. "The Obama Administration's incompetent half-billion-dollar rollout of its multi-trillion-dollar signature achievement is but a tragic metaphor for this man's entire presidency," maintains Matt Barber, an attorney concentrating in constitutional law who serves as vice president of Liberty Counsel Action, Forest, Va.

"The promise of 'affordable care' for all has yielded but a handful of folks who even have been able to sign up for this clinic in socialism. That ObamaCare--something billed as a health-care panacea for the collectives something that the collective neither asked for, nor wanted, is now the back story. That it has failed so fantastically in every respect has taken center stage."

Still, points out Barber, the few who somehow have managed to enroll in ObamaCare are discovering, to their dismay, what many of us have warned all along: there is nothing "affordable" about the paradoxically named Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. "Though government geeks may be 'working day and night' to fix the website, no amount of work will fix ObamaCare itself. It's unfixable," Barber states.

Even the Obamanistas finally are waking up, Barber adds. Just days before its launch, Politico lamented, "The ObamaCare that consumers will finally be able to sign up for next week [they were not] is a long way from the health plan Pres. Barack Obama first pitched to the nation. Millions of low-income Americans won't receive coverage. Many workers at small businesses won't get a choice of insurance plans right away. Large employers won't need to provide insurance for another year. Far more states than expected won't run their own insurance marketplaces--and a growing number of workers won't get to keep their employer-provided coverage."

The President's likeminded base--the hardcore left--also has become restless, Barber says. "The good news--if you can call it that--is that ObamaCare is nondiscriminating. It is putting the screws to every American --rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, liberal and...

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