Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Fantasyland) Triples Down On Her Own Bullshit

I posted this a little over a year ago:

Every time the GOP claims to have found someone who has been hurt by the Affordable Care Act, it turns out that the alleged "victim" was actually helped by health care reform.

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. ***

Well, it seems that McMorris Rodgers failed to learn her lesson from that debacle.  A couple days ago, she took to Facebook and requested that her constituents submit Obamacare horror stories on the fifth anniversary of the passage of the ACA.  That also turned out to be a mistake:

[Morris Rodgers] instead found her Facebook page filled with testimonials to the benefits of the Affordable Care Act. ***

A lot of folks shared stories. They were of a kind CMR didn’t want to hear — and is largely insulated from hearing on trips home to by-invitation “Coffees with Cathy” in her Eastern Washington district.

An encore ass-kicking as thorough as that one would normally cause someone to back down, but not McMorris Rodgers.  Oh no.  She instead decides to stick her head even deeper into her own posterior orifice:

After yesterday's story on the surprising response she got from constituents when she asked for "Obamacare" nightmares, she doubled-down with a press conference and mentioned several so-called Obamacare horror stories, presumably heartfelt stories that had been sent to her. ***

But, there are a few problems with these accounts. For one thing, there are only five. Five whole stories of the Affordable Care Act being a nightmare, compared to the thousands of positive comments on her Facebook page. Secondly, all five stories (including the ones below) were lifted directly from the House Republican leadership website, which was posted days before her press conference. ***

One of the "horror stories" from the GOP website relates a tale of woe of a woman from Georgia, but the reason she is having difficulty is because Georgia -- in a hissy fit caused by hatred for America's first Black president -- has refused to embrace Medicaid expansion.  Another "horror story" involved one of the "junk plans that the ACA shut down because they were bad for consumers."

Keep digging, Cathy.