Uh Oh: Endangered Senate Democrat Calls for ObamaCare Probe

Uh Oh: Endangered Senate Democrat Calls for ObamaCare Probe

Let’s call this the Democratic Senate Self-Preservation Act. As we discover how pitifully small a number have signed up for this disaster, panicked Democrats are fleeing the sinking ObamaCare ship.

Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) will ask two oversight agencies for a full-blown investigation into the problems surrounding the ObamaCare launch. Hagan, who is up for reelection in 2014, is asking her Senate colleagues to co-sign a letter asking two agencies to conduct “a complete, thorough investigation to determine the causes of the design and implementation failures of HealthCare.Gov. These problems are simply unacceptable, and Americans deserve answers and swift solutions,” Hagan writes in a letter obtained by The Hill. “Taxpayers are owed a full and transparent accounting of how the vendors contracted to build the site failed to launch it successfully.”

All well and good, Senator, but you voted for this. This pathetic attempt to cover your hide is more than a bit self-serving. Hagan’s letter highlights the anxiety over ObamaCare being felt by centrist Senate Democrats facing reelection next year. She is one of three "red state" Democrat facing reelection in 2014 that support a bill that would allow people to keep their existing health insurance plans under ObamaCare. A fourth, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) faces reelection until 2018.  Hagan was also one of several Democratic senators up for reelection next year who met with President Obama last week on the failures of the ObamaCare