Quote of the Day

"...it’s one of the key rules of lazy political journalism that Republicans are the heartland and by definition can’t be out of touch with it (rules dreamed up, by the way, mostly by people from the Eastern seaboard who went to private universities and haven’t the slightest idea in the world about the actual heartland). Only Democrats can be. That’s how it can come to pass that liberals and Democrats can be defending a law whose major provisions enjoy broad support, and a law that most Americans have come around to accepting as a part of life that they’ll learn to live with, and be called out of touch."  -- Michael Tomasky, in The Daily Beast, writing as the number of people signing up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act surges. (emphasis added).

Regardless of what the Rethuglican-wired Beltway media is peddling on "Obamacare," millions of people now have health insurance for the first time that doesn't disappear when they get sick, that doesn't deny them coverage due to a preexisting condition, and that they can afford.  As Tomasky points out in his article, the majority of the public doesn't want the law repealed, and favors the key policies of the law by a large margin.  Now, the Rethugs won't stop their attacks -- they still want to gut Medicare after almost 50 years -- but at some point the Beltway media might want to check outside their bubble.