Eye Recommend --- Mitch McConnell Admits Obamacare is a Success

MITCH MCCONNELL ADMITS OBAMACARE IS A SUCCESS DURING KENTUCKY SENATE DEBATE, by Allen Clifton -- 
http://www.forwardprogressives.com/mitch-mcconnell-admits-obamacare-success-kentucky-senate-debate/

Last week, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) debated his Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes, and lied...again...regarding the Affordable Care Act.

"Essentially, McConnell reiterated that he wants a full repeal of the law on every level--except in Kentucky.  

No, that's not a joke.

'I think it's fine to have a website.  Yeah,' he said when asked if he wants to keep Kentucky's state exchange known as Kynect. 'The website can continue but in my view the best interests of the country would be achieved by pulling out Obamacare root and branch,' McConnell continued. 

He also suggested the Kynect is a 'state exchange' and should be handled by 'the state.'"

And when he's done "pulling out Obamacare root and branch," what is this wonderful state run exchange going to "Kynect" to?  That state exchange is, in fact, a branch of the Affordable Care Act.  No Affordable Care Act, no Kynect.

"This is how stupid McConnell and his fellow Republicans know conservative voters are.  He literally sat on that stage and praised the success of Obamacare in his own state, while simultaneously calling for its repeal nationwide...

...By the way, fellow Republican Senator Rand Paul has also supported keeping the law in Kentucky while pushing for its repeal nationally.  So this hypocrisy isn't limited to McConnell."

Kentucky's state-run healthcare exchange and Kentucky's Medicaid expansion are in place and successful only because Governor Steve Beshear (D) insisted on them. Both Mitch and Rand, (and just about every other Republican leader in the country), did everything in their power to see that state exchanges and Medicaid expansion did not happen in their states.  

"Honestly, let (this) sink in for a moment.  McConnell is essentially praising the success of a law he hoped would not exist and still currently wants to repeal.

It's just laughable.

Mitch McConnell is literally trying to campaign both for and against Obamacare at the same time...

...To her credit, Grimes hit back at McConnell's absurdity, saying that when it comes to Obamacare she's not sure what 'fictional fantasy land that Mitch McConnell is in.'...

...This is what I don't get about conservative voters.  Republicans blatantly treat them like idiots.  McConnell can't honestly believe his constituents are intelligent, while trying to peddle nonsense such as this.  Because it makes absolutely no sense." 

The sad thing is, to may conservative voters, it does make sense.  Last year there were multiple stories about people in Kentucky picking up information about Kynect and saying they'd happily sign up for this because "it's so much better than Obamacare."

And this happened not just in Kentucky.  Conservative voters, groomed to hate anything "Obama," were only too happy to sign up for "state healthcare plans," but could find nothing good to say about "that Obama plan."

"Yet despite the fact that McConnell is clearly relying on the ignorance of conservative voters not to question a statement that makes absolutely no sense, he knows they'll eat it right up--without question--and still vote for him."

"Without question," may be the two most important words in this whole article.  In an age when information is as close as the phone in our pockets, too many Americans no longer question.

Republicans told their constituents, "Obamacare is bad!" And they believed.  No one seems to have asked politicians like Mitch McConnell to explain how it was bad. Or why. How many voters bothered to find out how the federal law relates to state exchanges? How many bothered to wonder why their state had a state-run exchange?  Or why it didn't? How many bothered to question the possible benefits or impediments for them personally?  How many questioned at all?

And that is the plain and simple reason why politicians get away with lying.  They can, and will, continue to spout any falsehood that supports their party-speak because their jobs are never in jeopardy because we don't question.

 It's time to WAKE UP, AMERICA!