Gene Lyons: Why Republicans Will Never Stop Lying About Obamacare

[Playinghardball]

Politically speaking, here’s the thing about those melodramatic ads attacking the Affordable Care Act currently running on TV: In terms of actual policy, they’re as futile as the 40-odd votes to repeal the law that House Republicans have already cast. GOP hardliners are like a drunk in a bar fight threatening to whip somebody twice his size if only his friends would let go of his arms. It’s all over but the shouting. Like it or not, the ACA is here to stay. Indeed, governors and legislatures in previously recalcitrant states including New Hampshire, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Utah and Virginia are considering Medicaid expansion they’d previously shunned.

Despite early signup problems with the federal HealthCare.gov exchange, signups for individual private policies have increased to where it now appears the ACA will come close to meeting its projected goal of 7 million enrollees by the March 31 deadline. In Arkansas, virtually every news program features a pretty, AFP-sponsored actress plaintively begging viewers to remind Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor that health care is about “people,” and that “the law just doesn’t work.” More in sorrow than anger, it seems, because Pryor remains personally popular.

More here: http://www.nationalmemo.com/republicans-will-never-stop-lying-obamacare/

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[Pretzel_Warrior]

1. I hope they keep it up because it is so amusing and

Makes them look exactly like the lying fucksticks they are. As more people see and experience the benefits of Obamacare, they might start to believe their own eyes instead of their deranged Republican congressperson/governor.