The right gets confused by its own lie

[DonViejo]

Right-wing groups claim Congress is exempted from Obamacare. But five months ago, they had a very different story

BY ALEX SEITZ-WALD

A good lie never dies, and so it is that we get Texas Sen. Ted Cruz telling Mary Matalin, sitting in for Laura Ingraham, Monday: “I think it is disgraceful that President Obama, in just a lawless move, just exempted Congress [from Obamacare].”

“If Congress gets a pass on Obamacare, you should, too,” the conservative group Freedomworks, which has been leading the push to defund the health law, demands. Then there’s John Cornyn, the number two Senate Republican, along with the Wall Street Journal editorial board and Fox News, not to mention former senator and current Heritage Foundation president Jim DeMint, and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, and all the rest. A Washington Times columnist even called it “treason.”

Sadly, but not surprisingly, they’re all lying to you. Congress did not, and never has, “exempted” itself from Obamacare. Here’s the New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn, one of the smartest writers on health care policy anywhere:

As is often the case with these arguments, this one contains an element of truth. Obamacare really does treat congressional employees differently from other people. But that’s because of an amendment written by Senator Chuck Grassley, the Iowa Republican. The amendment—almost certainly a political stunt designed to embarrass the Democrats—created an ambiguity in the law that the Obama administration had to clarify. Last week the administration issued a ruling and, sure enough, it is getting political grief over it. But there’s no reason it should.

Full article
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/20/the_right_gets_confused_by_its_own_lie/

The full article is chock full of links to information sustaining the columnist's opinion -- DV

[Filibuster Harry]

1. Jon Thume said on morning Joe several weeks/months ago that the keystone pipeline should

be a go because it increases jobs. And when asked about construction jobs being temporary he stated that those are the best type of temporary jobs to have.
So how come the Rs didn't want to agree with infrastructure work? Because it only causes temporary jobs.
(which would be construction jobs.) Get it!!