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It is day two and all of the Republican warnings about Obamacare are coming true. No, NOT the ones they told us, the ones they whispered secretly to each other. "It's going to work!"

"Goddammit I knew it would go this way!"

So here we are on day two and the conservatives are trying like crazy to get everybody in the country to focus on computer glitches, long wait times on the telephone, and every little bump or hiccup they can possibly identify.

Sadly for them, much of the rest of the country is ignoring them.

Just take a look at these headlines:

CONNECTICUT: Health Care Plans Begin: 28,000-Plus Go Online To State Marketplace
GEORGIA: Enrollment Sites Are Swamped On First Day
IDAHO: Idaho Health Exchange Launches With Few Hiccups
KENTUCKY: Kynect Opens To High Demand
MAINE: Insurance Marketplace Opens To Flood Of Interest
MICHIGAN: Insurance Exchange Debut Draws Millions
CALIFORNIA: Millions Try To Enroll
PENNSYLVANIA: A First-Day Rush On Health Care

"Wait, they like it?"

You get the idea.

Were there glitches during attempts to sign up or learn more? You betcha!

Were these indications of a long term problem with the program? What are you, an idiot?

Here is how the Washington Post summed it up:

The top story all day was that Republicans had shut down the federal government because President Obama wouldn't defund or delay the Affordable Care Act. The other major story was that the government's servers were crashing because so many people were trying to see if they could get insurance through Obamacare.

So on the one hand, Washington was shut down because Republicans don't want Obamacare. On the other hand, Obamacare was nearly shut down because so many Americans wanted Obamacare.

Pretty much says it all, wouldn't you agree?

So successful was the program that one of Fox News's very own broke ranks:

Personally, as someone who pays through the nose for individual insurance in New York State — a state where, historically, few individual insurance options have even been available — I can’t wait to enroll in ObamaCare and see my premiums plummet, as they are expected to by at least 50%.

Again, all this is why Republicans are in such a desperate rush to try and defund ObamaCare before October 1 — even if it means holding our economy hostage and even if most voters, including Republicans, oppose the repeated and wasteful defunding attempts.

After all, the law is already popular when it’s not fully in effect and most people haven’t felt its benefits. We all know what will happen when ObamaCare takes effect — and works!

So we are coming to the end of the second day of the Obamacare roll out, and the second day of the the Republican's attempt to hold the government hostage in the hopes of stopping it.

One of these things is a colossal train wreck, and will cost the country millions unnecessarily. And it is NOT the one the Republicans want you to think it is.

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