On Monday’s show the New York Times’ Mark Leibovich talked about Manhattan-Beltway media elites and Hillary, Chris Christie and Obamacare.

On Tuesday’s program, Dr. Tevi Troy laid out in great detail exactly what the media needs to be examining about the claims the president is making about Obamacare.  (Troy’s new Commentary Magazine piece on Obamacare is here.)

The transcripts of both the Leibovich and Troy interviews will be posted here soon.  The answer to the problem Leibovich identified of Beltway media “group think” is outlined in Troy’s answers to my interview questions and in his article.  Wait and see if many (or any) MSMer start to scrutinize the president’s claims or seek serious metrics of performance for the program he continues to extol even as it fails in spectacular fashion to the great harm of millions of Americans.  Look especially for any MSMer recounting what the president promised in 2009 and again in 2012 and what is in fact happening in 2013-2014.

Troy’s new book, What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted, is the perfect Christmas book for the political junkies in your life, left, right or center.

My second day broadcasting from the Beltway will focus on the ghastly smash-up that is Obamacare.

The New York Time caries another story of another judicial assault on the law.

Elizabeth Herrington, a guest on yesterday’s show, writes of the the continuing cyber security woes at The Washington Free Beacon.

Ron Fornier of The National Journal wants everyone fired at the White House.

But the president this afternoon “will look to refocus attention on areas where the law has succeeded, while selling the public on signing up for coverage,” according to The Hill.  This despite a front-page story in the Washington Post highlighting the errors plaguing the relaunch of Healthcare.gov.

It is more than a little Alice-in-Wonderlandish here inside the Beltway, especially with headlines trumpeting Joe Biden on an important mission to Japan and the PRC, which he is handling with his typical delicacy.

But a broadcast journalist’s delight.  Listen in today as some D.C. folk join me to opine on living inside the circus.

The Beltway broadcasts, day one, begins with Mark Leibovich of This Town fame, and will include James Hohmann of Politico.com and a gang from the Washington Free Beacon if all goes well.

That’s not good.

The country could be doing much better -should be doing much better.  And that is the theme of my Washington Examiner column today.

The immediate problem is the enormous new costs and even larger uncertainties engendered by Obamacare.  Hard to plan your Christmas budget when you don’t know what the health insurance tab is going to be in 2014.  Even in states with barely functioning websites like California, the insurance tsars there admit they don’t have a clue whether the posted rates will be sustainable. (Translation: They expect adverse selection to drive rates for individual purchasers through the roof in 2015.)

Governor Christie, Senator Rubio –all of the would-be GOP nominees should start now to say again and again “The country could be doing much better, we should be doing much better, and with genuine reform, we will be doing much better.”

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