Talking points from hell
by digby
That “House Republican Playbook” on Obamacare was, as Kevin Drum points out, pretty impressive. It’s certainly a very professional job. Of course the substance is almost entirely bullshit, but what would you expect?
Kevin highlighted the one that also made me gasp when I read it:
[I]t’s all pretty predictable stuff: Obamacare is an abomination; people are losing their insurance; small companies are being ruined; etc. etc. But I have to say that this is my favorite talking point:
Needless to say, this is primarily because Republicans governors have refused to implement Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, even though it’s 100 percent paid for at first and 90 percent paid for forever. These governors literally prefer to have their state’s residents pay taxes and get nothing in return rather than give so much as an extra dime to poor people who need health care. It’s truly hard to fathom what kind of human being is callous enough to do this, but apparently there are a bunch of them in the Republican Party.
And then, just to add a cherry of chutzpah on top of this ice cream sundae of spitefulness, they crow about how Obamacare isn’t covering as many people as Obama hoped it would. You really have to marvel.
You do have to marvel at their chutzpah, as always. But, as David said earlier, the level of cruelty involved in all this is beyond any decent person’s ability to understand. It’s sociopathic.
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