A recent high-profile example of such chicanery was Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers' mentioning of poor "Bette in Spokane" during the Republican response to the President's State of the Union address. Of course, Bette's tale of ACA woe turned out to be complete horseshit.
I figured, however, that the Extreme Right would -- with the help of Kock Brothers' money -- eventually find somebody who has been victimized by ObamaCare. After all, when you pass into law such sweeping reforms, there are always some folks out there who will be hurt by them.
But a real victim of the ACA has not materialized despite the GOP's best efforts to find one, making me think that maybe there aren't any. But there has to be at least one such person, right?
Well, here is Paul Krugman's explanation of why no actual ObamaCare casualties have shown up in GOP attack ads:
The most likely answer is that the true losers from Obamacare generally aren’t very sympathetic. For the most part, they’re either very affluent people affected by the special taxes that help finance reform, or at least moderately well-off young men in very good health who can no longer buy cheap, minimalist plans. Neither group would play well in tear-jerker ads.In other words, it's not that there aren't any ObamaCare victims -- it's just that the Republicans don't like who the real victims are, so they have no choice but to make up imaginary ones and hope nobody notices.
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I doubt they care frankly, they're very good at making stuff up, and to some degree any self-described conservative holds a made-up view: e.g. I hate large government, so let's pass a bunch of laws to restrict individual behavior because Jaheezus told me gays are naughty and drugs-r-bad (mmmkay?).
I actually feel pretty sorry for these horror story dupes, they voluntarily undermine themselves purely for ideology's sake, egged on by corporate evil (those Koch c0ck stains or whoever):
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/24/1279971/-Subject-of-debunked-Obamacare-horror-story-finally-speaks-to-Fox-News?detail=email
Ok, now I see the Radicalized Right's plan -- put a fake victim out there, and when the evil Democrats take issue with the fact that she's a fake victim, then claim she's being abused by the Democrats (i.e., she's being victimized once again, even though she was never victimized in the first place, except of course by the Kock Brothers).
The Democrats should respond by throwing everything they've got at the Kocks and especially at this particular "victim," given that she put herself out there in a fraudulent way, apparently hoping that her medical condition would make her impervious to criticism for engaging in such bullshittery.
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