THE SEAN HANNITY SHOW

Is ObamaCare to Blame? When the new Senate is sworn in in January, 29 senators who voted for ObamaCare will no longer be there. Some of them conveniently decided not to seek re-election after the historic vote, and many have lost their seats to Republicans. Democrats should consider this a wakeup call. With each passing month, ObamaCare has become more unpopular with the American people. This is because it is causing people to lose their insurance, lose their doctors and costs are skyrocketing. Every Republican running for the Senate campaigned on the repeal of ObamaCare, and they should follow through on that promise. Mitch McConnell says Republicans will try to dismantle pieces of ObamaCare such as the individual mandate, the medical device tax and the 30-hour workweek. That's a great start, but it needs to be repealed and replaced it with market-based solutions such as health savings accounts. White House Meeting Barack Obama met today with Congressional leaders. As he meets with Republicans who will soon be the majority in Congress, the president doesn't seem to grasp the message we voters sent him this week. The election on Tuesday was most certainly a repudiation of the Obama agenda. Americans are not happy with the direction of the country. They've elected Republicans in order to change that direction. But this message doesn't seem to be penetrating Obama's rigid, ideological approach to governing. Instead he seems to be doubling down on his efforts to act unilaterally on issues such as immigration. House Speaker John Boehner was forceful in his warning to Obama yesterday during his press conference ahead of Friday's meeting: "If he acts unilaterally on his own, outside of his authority, he will poison the well and there will be no chance of immigration reform moving in this Congress." He goes on to say, "When you play with matches, then you take the risk of burning yourself, and he's going to burn himself if he continues to go down this path." But Obama doesn't seem to care too much about burning himself with the Republicans, Democrats or even the American people. Obama is defiant. He does what he wants to do because that's the Obama way, and he thinks he knows best. After all, we are talking about a man who once proclaimed that he's a better speechwriter than his speechwriters and more politically savvy than is own political team. The Wall Street Journal says that the White House is not debating the act of executive amnesty but simply the scope. We have an immigration law in this country and it doesn't allow for the amnesty Obama wants to grant. Instead of going to Congress, he's just going to write his own laws. If he can do that with this law, he can do it on any law. And that's a real problem, beyond Obama, for our rule of law.