Monday, December 2, 2013

CHUCK MUTH REPORTS 12/02/2013

THE BILBRAY FILES


December 2, 2013

Bilbray-Kohn: Running from ObamaCare

The American Action Network is running a series of “Cyber Monday” web ads today focusing on Democrats who appear to have been for ObamaCare before they were against it, including Nevada Democrat congressional candidate Erin Bilbray-Kohn.

AAN ad notes that at an Obama for America campaign event last June, Bilbray-Kohn declared that "President Obama passed the affordable care act to restore health care as a basic cornerstone of security for the middle class."

Leave aside for the moment that President Obama didn’t pass ObamaCare; Congress did.  You would hope that someone running for, you know, Congress, would understand that Congress passes bill and the president either signs or vetoes them.  But let’s not quibble.

Bilbray-Kohn added that ObamaCare “does not only cut down health care costs, but creates a better quality of life for us all."


Of course, that was before the wheels came off the HealthCare.gov apple cart and before some 25,000 Nevadans started getting cancellation notices from their health insurance companies despite Obama promise that “if you like your plan you can keep it.”

That was also before folks who semi-miraculously were actually able to use the HealthCare.gov website discovered that the ObamaCare policies available were HIGHER than we were led to believe, far from “cutting down health care costs.”

Oops.

Which is why Bilbray-Kohn is now running from ObamaCare like a scalded dog!

As AAN notes, in a recent interview with Andrew Doughman of the Las Vegas Sun, our 4-percenter was singing a very different tune, and decidedly not from the White House’s song sheet…

"I share all of America’s frustration because we have a website (healthcare.gov) that is not working... but I do think the president needs to honor his commitment."

The commitments, again, were that if you liked your current health care plan you could keep it, that ObamaCare would reduce health care costs, and that the website where you could buy an ObamaCare health care plan would be fully operational in October.

President Obama built an Edsel.  Bilbray-Kohn hawked it for him.  Now everyone knows what Republicans knew and said all along; that ObamaCare is a lemon.

Should we reward Bilbray-Kohn for such colossal bad judgment by electing her to Congress where she’d be in a position to make this bad situation worse?  I…don’t…think…so.

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