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Panic:
Desperate Democrats
Propose Law to Restore Obama's 'Keep Your Plan' Pledge
by Guy Benson
Oct 31, 2013
The
firestorm over
President Obama's "you can keep your plan" lie now
threatens to singe vulnerable Democrats next year, so they're
springing into action to try to force the administration to keep its
word. Louisiana's Mary Landrieu -- an ardent Obamacare supporter --
is scrambling to undo one of the obvious consequences of a law she's
voted to pass, fund, and retain:
Sen. Mary
Landrieu said
Wednesday she would propose legislation to ensure all Americans could
keep their existing insurance coverage under Obamacare, a fresh sign
of the political problems the law’s rollout has created for
congressional Democrats. Landrieu, a Democrat who faces a tough
reelection in Louisiana in 2014, said she would either offer her own
bill or formally sign onto another measure that would ensure that the
law would not force anyone off of their existing health policies.
“The promise was made, and it should be kept,” Landrieu said in
the Capitol Wednesday. “And it was our understanding when we voted
for that bill that people when they have insurance could keep with
what they had. So I’m going to be working on that fix.”
If that
truly was
Landrieu's "understanding" at the time, she's a moron. I'll
let Steny Hoyer explain why. The more likely explanation is that
she's a committed Democratic partisan who was willing to do the White
House's bidding in order to drag Obamacare across the finish line via
lies and sweetheart buy-offs. Her repetition of the president's "keep
your plan" nonsense was either the product of (a) unforgivable
ignorance or (b) self-interested cynicism. The latter option sounds
about right because it also explains her sudden reversal on this
point. She now professes to be shocked -- shocked! -- that people
can't keep their preferred coverage. Republicans have been
aggressively challenging Obama's ludicrous promise since it was first
made. Those warnings fell on willfully deaf ears. Responding to
Republican accusations that she's finally kicking up a fuss to cover
her own political ass, Landrieu had the audacity to accuse the GOP of
"making things up," and said she expects to be re-elected
next fall. Your call, Louisiana. Flashback:
In
September 2010, all
Senate Democrats, including Landrieu, voted to reject a plan
Republicans said would have killed Obama administration regulations
that now have resulted in the cancellation of insurance policies.
Senate
Democrats also voted
unanimously to block a Republican proposal to delay Obamacare's
individual mandate by one year, which led to the recent government
shutdown. Now they're singing a different tune...
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