WSJ's Noonan: GOP Should Seek to Delay Obamacare 'Disaster'

WSJ's Noonan: GOP Should Seek to Delay Obamacare 'Disaster'

Friday, 11 Oct 2013 03:15 PM

By Dan Weil

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/noonan-delay-obamacare-defund/2013/10/11/id/530633

Congressional Republicans should shift their focus from defunding Obamacare to delaying it, says Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan.

It's good that congressional Republicans are now negotiating with the White House on the budget and debt ceiling, Noonan wrote Friday. "But they would make a mistake in dropping Obamacare as an issue."

"A few weeks ago they mistakenly demanded defunding — a move to please their base. They will be tempted to abandon even the word Obamacare now."

Peggy Noonan

Peggy Noonan is a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, and a director at the Creative Coalition.

Note: Peter D. Hart is a pollster for the Wall Street Journal, and a teacher at the University of California, Berkeley.

Haas School of Business is a business school at the University of California, Berkeley.

Richard C. Blum is a board member at the Haas School of Business, married to Senator Dianne Feinstein, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank), ProPublica, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and the Aspen Institute (think tank).

George Soros is the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), is a director at ProPublica, a director at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner.

Paul E. Steiger is the president & CEO & editor for ProPublica, and was a managing editor for the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

Tonya Lewis Lee is a director at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, a director at the Creative Coalition, and married to Spike Lee.

Creative Coalition was a party host for the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Spike Lee is married to Tonya Lewis Lee, and an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner.

Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner, a senior director at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a senior counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP was a party host for the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Valerie B. Jarrett is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

James S. Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).

Lester Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).

Stephen L. Carter is trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner.