Sunday, November 24, 2013

Why Mitch McConnell really hates Obamacare

The propaganda doesn't sell as well once the people start signing up in droves for Obamacare. Like in Kentucky:
But in a state where the rollout has gone smoothly, and in a county that is one of the poorest and unhealthiest in the country, Courtney Lively has been busy signing people up: cashiers from the IGA grocery, clerks from the dollar store, workers from the lock factory, call-center agents, laid-off coal miners, KFC cooks, Chinese green-card holders in town to teach Appalachian students.
Not only that, but the rubes are discovering the GOPers have been lying to them.
Although she once had to dispel a rumor that enrolling involved planting a microchip in your arm, and though she avoids calling the new law “Obamacare” in a red state, most people need little persuading.
One person signs up successfully and tell their friends and family. The governor went all in on making the program work well. He clearly understands a healthier population saves the state money and it's just the humane thing to do. Now 60 year old people who have never had health insurance their entire lives are covered. Waiting for the tipping point where the lies just won't sell at all anymore and the GOPers start trying to take credit for the program. Only a matter of time.

Meanwhile, it will be too late for McConnell either way. He's led the vanguard against health care for his own constituents, so the newly covered rubes who once believed the lies won't vote for him now and the angry cons who won't ever sign up because, Dimmocrats invented it, won't vote for him because he signed off on a compromise or two. He's pretty well screwed.

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3 Comments:

Blogger Grung_e_Gene said...

Yes, Libby, this undermines the core Republican lie for the last 35 years, i.e. 'Government is the problem'.

When people who have been lied to and duped for as long as conservatives have been see the benefits of Government action, they might realize that,

Government isn't the Problem, Republicans in Government are the Problem.

1:08:00 PM  
Blogger merlallen said...

Any day now Mitch will be talking about how great the PPACA is. And probably pretending that it was all his idea.

1:58:00 PM  
Blogger Libby Spencer said...

Here's hoping enough rubes wise up to get rid of the crackpots.

2:07:00 PM  

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