Congressman Kurt Schrader is a Democrat from Oregon. According to his bio, Schrader "firmly supports the Affordable Care Act" (Obamacare). Despite that strong support, Schrader is says today that president Obama was "not being honest" when he told Americans that they could keep their policies and doctors if they liked them. Schrader also says that presidential spokesman Jay Carney is guilt of "doubletalk" in trying to explain away Obama's dishonesty. Some of Schraders' words about Obama included that the president "was grossly misleading to the American public."
Schrader has won comfortably from his district each time he has run. For years he has been a champion of Obamacare. His own website even claims that he was the architect of part of the law. That means that we ought to be able to assume that Schrader actually knew what was in the law. So here's the question: Schrader is right that Obama was grossly misleading to the American public. The problem is that Schrader has known this to be the fact from the first time Obama mentioned this lie. So where was Schrader? Is he the only person in America who never heard Obama tell us that we could all keep our policies and doctors if we liked them?
Look, I understand that the polling must be terrible for Schrader in Oregon. Folks out there must be in full panic mode. Oregon has its own website, and as of two days ago, the report was that not a single person had yet been able to buy insurance from the state Obamacare exchange. That means that all those folks who had their policies cancelled are stuck in limbo: the old policies are going but they cannot buy new ones yet. Schrader is now trying to move to the other side of the debate and express anger about the cancellations. But this is a guy who helped draft the bill. He knew this would happen. He expected all these cancellations. Folks in Oregon ought not let him off the hook.
Schrader has won comfortably from his district each time he has run. For years he has been a champion of Obamacare. His own website even claims that he was the architect of part of the law. That means that we ought to be able to assume that Schrader actually knew what was in the law. So here's the question: Schrader is right that Obama was grossly misleading to the American public. The problem is that Schrader has known this to be the fact from the first time Obama mentioned this lie. So where was Schrader? Is he the only person in America who never heard Obama tell us that we could all keep our policies and doctors if we liked them?
Look, I understand that the polling must be terrible for Schrader in Oregon. Folks out there must be in full panic mode. Oregon has its own website, and as of two days ago, the report was that not a single person had yet been able to buy insurance from the state Obamacare exchange. That means that all those folks who had their policies cancelled are stuck in limbo: the old policies are going but they cannot buy new ones yet. Schrader is now trying to move to the other side of the debate and express anger about the cancellations. But this is a guy who helped draft the bill. He knew this would happen. He expected all these cancellations. Folks in Oregon ought not let him off the hook.
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