On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says that in an off-the-record briefing, Obama White House officials were "extraordinarily confident" about the rollout of Obamacare, and displayed a site that looked "great" and was"very user friendly" and "very simple."
On Steve Kornacki's MSNBC show, Dem Congressman Steve Cohen of Tennessee calls Tea Party congressmen "domestic enemies" that representatives took an oath to defend the country against.
On Morning Joe, Melody Barnes, former Director President Obama's Domestic Policy Counci, warns Americans to "back off" their opposition to Obamacare.
On Morning Joe, David Axelrod says of Republicans that "structurally, they're set up OK for 2014."
On Morning Joe, asked whether she supports Obamacare, Nicolle Wallace says "I don't know anymore. My husband asked me 'what do we hate about it?'" She eventually expresses opposition on the basis that the government is an incompetenet deliverer of health care.
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough predicts that Ted Cruz will not be the 2016 Republican presidential nominee, and that there's a "very real chance" that Cruz will run as an independent.
On Morning Joe, Carl Bernstein bemoans the change in media culture, and complains the media is too balanced in treating Republicans and Democrats in covering the shutdown. It should instead reveal Republicans to be McCarthyites and liars.
On Morning Joe, Obama admin official David Simas suggests the administration won't say for a "few weeks" how many people have signed up for Obamacare.
On her MSNBC show, Andrea Mitchell claims that social programs were "gutted" by the sequester. In fact, Social Security, Medicaid and food stamps were exempted from sequester cuts and Medicare incurred only a 2% reduction.
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough insults his viewers and Reublicans, saying "I know a lot of people aren't really smart out there . . . I'm not blaming the Republicans and I feel sorry for them because they
should have paid more attention in school. They wouldn't be so easily
confused by 140-character statements."
