The Obamacare Horror Story That Wasn't

Brian Beutler has some thoughts on "Bette," the woman cited by Rethuglican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Liar-Wingnuttia) as an Obamacare horror story in her response to the State of the Union address:

Take Bette: The reason she didn’t visit the Washington state health exchange was basically #OBUMMER. “I wouldn’t go on that Obama website at all,” she said. This didn’t start with her cancelation. This started years ago. Republicans told Bette, and others inclined to distrust Obamacare, that they’d face death panels and rationing boards. That their options would be unaffordable, and irredeemable. That the exchange sites would make their personal information vulnerable to hackers and that creepy Uncle Sam would sexually violate them. They said all this in the hope that people like Bette wouldn’t give the law a fair shake, then turned around and feigned outrage on their behalf when the plan worked. 

Republicans aren’t sincerely distressed about the things they hear from people like Bette. People like Bette are the goal.

Read the rest of Brian's piece because it really frames the position of the Republican/ New Confederate/ Stupid Party extremely well.  They're not interested in the general welfare of the American public. They're interested in perpetuating their successful, decades-long grift of low-information people like "Bette," to keep the distance between the "makers" and the "takers" for as long as they can get away with it.  Because FREEDUMB!

(Photo:  McMorris Rodgers - she's lying when her lips are moving.)