What about the Obama health reform law?
For weeks, Republicans had sparred about the usefulness of a government shutdown, and whether it could derail the President's signature health law.
But as the sun came up on Tuesday in Washington, government offices may have been closed in many cases, but the health law was not missing a beat.
"Full steam ahead for 'Obamacare" as much of the federal government shuts down," said an AP report.
"The Affordable Care Act is moving forward. That funding is already in place. You can’t shut it down," President Obama said to reporters on Monday before a meeting with his Cabinet.
The irony of the shutdown is this - on the very day that the health law really kicked in, with the opening of the various exchanges - that was a secondary story to the government shutdown.
Some GOP lamwakers immediately went on to the exchanges to try to sign up for health insurance, and instead found a balky web site that didn't work perfectly.
But that story won't get as much attention as the shutdown, the closure of national parks and local government facilities in cities and towns all across the nation. It won't be ignored, but it won't be 'the' story of the day.
And if you are hoping the Democrats are getting weak in the knees about the Obama health law, I just don't sense that in the halls of Congress.
If anything, there are more wobbly knees among Republicans over their tactics, than there are Democrats worried about the health law right now.
Posted By: DAVID JOHNSON
Tuesday, October 1st 2013 at 1:52PM
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