GOP is losing the Obamacare war: What a new lie reveals about the law’s success - By Joan Walsh

[DonViejo]

What happens when a program in your state is really popular, but you're on record opposing it? Total humiliation

JOAN WALSH

Embattled Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell has an Obamacare problem, and not the one you think. His state’s version of the program, KyNect, is so popular and so successful, that if he tells voters outright that he wants to kill it, he might be killing his Senate career, too.

So ever since his GOP primary victory over the Tea Party’s Matt Bevin, he’s been bobbing and weaving trying to avoid admitting that his plans to repeal the ACA would destroy KyNect. Last Friday, during a joint press conference with Sen. Rand Paul, he called the ACA the “single worst piece of legislation” passed in half a century. But then he claimed that the fate of KyNect was “unconnected” to the repeal of the law.

He’s been dogged by disbelieving local and national reporters ever since, so now McConnell has a new lie: If Kentucky likes its state exchange, it can keep its state exchange, even after the repeal of Obamacare.

“If Obamacare is repealed, Kentucky should decide for itself whether to keep KyNect or set up a different marketplace,” McConnell campaign spokeswoman Allison Moore told Louiville’s NPR affiliate WFPL.

The only problem is, it isn’t true.

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http://www.salon.com/2014/05/28/gop_is_losing_the_obamacare_war_what_a_new_lie_reveals_about_the_laws_success/

[mikeysnot]

1. Wow a flip flopping lying republican?

who would figure...

[abakan]

2. Hopefully he will twist in this wind all the way to election day. NT

[String Fiesta]

3. Great article. What goes around comes around.

The wrong side of history is the wrong side of history.

[IronLionZion]

4. Keep the government out of my exchanges!

is what lots of GOP are starting to say.

Also how does he deal with the folks who have gotten plans they like, but now he wants to take it away from them? Any answer on this?