Haven't we had enough LIES? Protect Veterans!

Last week, the Koch Brothers began running campaign ads highlighting a veteran who claims the Affordable Care Act (ACA) drove up his health care costs.

The ad deliberately misleads in its attempt to convince the viewer that the ACA specifically increases veterans health care rates. But, as we know, for other veterans receiving VA Care, nothing has changed, and the Act specifically exempts Tricare, as well.

But there are many veterans who do find insurance on their own, and their stories are important.

Are you one of the growing number of veterans or military family members who has found affordable health care for you or your family on the health care exchange, or via Medicaid expansion? Let us know.

Despite the fact that over 8 million individuals have signed up for Obamacare, the Tea Party is digging in on this issue.

In some states, like Virginia, legislatures are blocking the Medicaid expansion portion of the Affordable Care Act - denying coverage to almost 34,000 uninsured veterans in that one state alone.

And you already know about the dozens of votes Republicans in Congress have held to repeal the entire bill.

Let us know if you're a veteran or military family member who has signed up or qualified for better coverage under the ACA.

http://action.votevets.org/obamacare

On this issue, like most others, the voices of veterans are critical to the debate. Just look at what the Koch Brothers are trying to do...

That's why your story is so important.

All the best,

Jon Soltz
Iraq War Veteran and Chairman
VoteVets.org

Koch brothers fact check:

Not that FACTS matter to some of the unfortunate Tea Baggers....

If you ever thought that the Kochs’ attack ads weren’t full of egregious lies, take a look as the non-partisan Washington Post Fact Checker debunks some of their recent attacks against Democrats. The most infuriating part? The race for the Senate is now a deadlocked tie after over $34 million in discredited attacks like these: Claim in Koch Attack #1: “I found this wonderful doctor and a great health care plan. My insurance was canceled because of Obamacare. Now, the out-of-pocket costs are so high, it’s unaffordable. If I do not receive my medication, I will die.”   Washington Post Fact Check: FACT #1: “[She] suggested she had lost her ‘wonderful doctor’ when in fact she could keep that doctor in the new plan.” FACT #2 “Her premiums were cut in half, from $1,100 a month to $571.” Lie Detector: “One cannot claim that a plan is ‘unaffordable’ when over the course of the year it will provide you with substantial savings.”   Claim in Koch Attack #2: “Our health insurance plan was canceled because of Obamacare...This new plan is not affordable at all. My husband is working a lot more hours just to pay for these new increases.” Washington Post Fact Check: FACT: “The family qualified for Medicaid, but she was opposed for philosophical issues… So the family opted for a more expensive plan” Lie Detector: “It is [the family’s] right to choose a more expensive plan. But it makes her claim of ‘unaffordable’ harder to swallow.”   Claim in Koch Attack #3: “Health care isn’t about politics. It’s about people. And millions of people have lost their health insurance, millions of people can’t see their own doctors, and millions are paying more and getting less.” Washington Post Fact Check: FACT #1: Many have not lost their health insurance -- “Many [have been] rolled into new plans, and Obamacare has reduced the number of uninsured.” FACT #2: People don’t lose doctors because of Obamacare -- “This was true before Obamacare; employers changed plans all the time.” FACT #3: People aren’t getting less for more -- “Obamacare mandates many new benefits.” Lie Detector: “Once again Americans for Prosperity makes sweeping claims about the health-care law that lack context or offer a misleading picture.”   Koch attacks have been proven false time and time again: Politifact just announced that "in 13 fact checks, Americans for Prosperity [the largest Koch group] has never received higher than a Half True,” with the majority of attacks graded “false or mostly false." We can't stop the Kochs from spending millions on lies, but we can aggressively answer them with our own ads that tell the truth. We absolutely can’t let the Kochs’ enormous spending advantage lead to a Republican Senate takeover. Will you pitch in $3 to our Emergency Media Campaign to answer the Kochs’ outrageous ads with the truth? Thanks for your time and support, DSCC Fact Check Team

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Attack Ads!

This year marks the fifth time that I've run for Congress. I have never had ads run against me ten months before the election - until now. These right-wingers must have money to burn. The GOP Strategy in 2014

The front group running this ad is called Concerned Veterans for America. What they seem most concerned about is that I might be reelected to Congress.

Let me go through their brainwashing agitprop with you. Their disinformation ad features a father and daughter who are veterans. They claim that they are very unhappy with VA medical care. ("Government-run healthcare means disaster," says the ad.) According to them, VA medical care is the same as Obamacare. ("If you really want to know what Obamacare is going to be like, look at the VA system," says the ad.) Then the ad throws my face up on the screen. The implication is that I support Obamacare, and therefore, Grayson Must Go.

Regarding VA medical care, no system is perfect, and there's certainly room for improvement.
But it should be noted that according to the University of Michigan's American Customer Satisfaction Index, the Veterans Administration enjoys a 94% customer satisfaction rating.

That happens to be the highest customer satisfaction rating that the University of Michigan has ever recorded. Coca Cola, Google, McDonalds and Apple would kill to get a rating like that. If those father and daughter vets are part of the 6% who aren't happy, then we'll do our best to help them. In fact, our constituent service staff helps vets like them every single day. My goodness, I'll help them even though they were suckered into recording a bogus ad against me. I'm that kind of guy.

And as for VA medical care being the same as Obamacare - I wish. The VA medical system essentially is a single-payer system. The government employs VA doctors and nurses, and runs VA hospitals. In contrast, Obamacare attempts to salvage something from the wreckage of the profit-obsessed, dehumanizing, selfish, savage, brutal and lethal private health insurance system that traps roughly half of all Americans, while taking a stab at helping the 50 million Americans who have no health coverage at all, and can't see a doctor when they're sick. If the VA medical system is like Obamacare, then a fish is like a bicycle.

And yes, I do support Obamacare, because it saves lives and it saves money. So shoot me. Which is exactly what this ad is trying to do to my political future.

(Irony alert: the ad asks, "If you're sick or hurt, why should you have to wait to get attention?" Good question. The answer is that Obamacare makes it less likely that you'll have to wait, and far less likely that you'll die waiting.)

Anyway, 2014 has barely started, and they're already running these vicious, fraudulent attack ads against me. Every ad they run against me is trying to win the Academy Award in the categories of Most Hogwash, Twaddle, Rubbish, Hooey, Drivel, Horsefeathers, Poppycock and Bunk. If this is what they're doing in February, then what are they going to be doing in October and November?

We need reach our voters, to dispel the lies. And whether we do it through TV ads, radio ads, internet ads, mail or even yard signs, it all costs money.

Look, I need your help, and I'm going to need it all of the time between now and Election Day. Not once - all the time. If you haven't contributed to our campaign yet, then you need to start now. If you have contributed, then you need to do it again. If you aren't already contributing monthly, then you need to do that - because these rotten attack ads against me are going to run monthly, weekly, daily and hourly. And if you already contribute monthly, God bless you for that, but please consider upping the ante.

This is serious. I need you to pitch in. Every dollar counts, because I count, and you count.

Courage,

Rep. Alan Grayson

Paid for and Authorized by the Committee to Elect Alan Grayson

This, that.....

Bold Nebraska

Interesting. Best Buy is going to stock home solar arrays from SolarCity in its stores in California, Arizona, Hawaii, New York and Oregon. SolarCity has a similar deal with Home Depot.

Best Buy to sell SolarCity home solar arrays in 60 stores

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SolarCity Corp. and electronics retailer Best Buy are teaming up to sell solar arrays in 60 stores across the United States.

Bernie Sanders's photo.

Childhood Poverty:

The Senate on Thursday voted to renew programs providing health care and food assistance to children. The measure includes Sanders’ provision calling on the White House to submit a five-year plan to reduce the childhood poverty rate in the United States. “Unfortunately, despite our great wealth, more of our citizens are living in poverty than ever before and we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country in the industrialized world,” Sanders said. The bill now goes to the House of Representatives.

Watch Sen. Sanders' speech: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/video-audio/childhood-poverty-in-america

 

 

 

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Howling For Wolves

"Who owns the wild animals? Does the crown? Does the trapper? I say, maybe the animal owns its own life? If given the choice would it want to live? If the law says it is ok to torture and kill one, I certainly have the right to try to save one." -Paula Tough

Remember the Ontario wolf found caught in a snare earlier this winter? Read how 1 woman's encounter with unspeakable suffering & cruelty has inpired her to work for change. Thank you, Coyote Watch Canada for bringing us this impt. follow up.

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Snared- A Wolf Named Kitchi. | Coyote Watch Canada

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Coyote Watch Canada

 

 

With just 41 votes, Republican senators block veterans benefits bill, Republican lobbyist drafts bill barring 'self-declared homosexual football players' from NFL teams et al

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Stunning new report on USS Reagan radiation Harvey Wasserman, Common Dreams . . . A stunning new report indicates the U.S. Navy knew that sailors from the nuclear-powered USS Ronald Reagan took major radiation hits from the Fukushima atomic power plant after its meltdowns and explosions nearly three years ago. Many of the sailors are already suffering devastating health impacts, but are being stonewalled by Tepco and the Navy. The $4.3 billion carrier is now docked in San Diego. Critics question whether it belongs there at all. Attempts to decontaminate U.S. ships irradiated during the Pacific nuclear bombs tests from 1946-1963 proved fruitless. Still radioactive? (stock photo) Stars and Stripes . . . When the March 11, 2011 disaster struck, the Reagan was on its way to Korea, according to Reagan sailors who participated in Operation Tomodachi. They turned around and immediately made their way for the Japanese mainland, passing through a sea of debris. Sailors told Stars and Stripes that they believe they were as close as five miles off the coast of the stricken plant that spewed radiation into the air and sea. Sailors who were onboard the Reagan have claimed that they were drinking contaminated desalinated seawater and bathing in it until the ship’s leadership came over the public address system and told them to stop because it was contaminated. They claim the ventilation system was also contaminated. Furthermore, some claim they were pressured into signing forms confirming they had been given iodine pills when none had been provided. The ship's ventilation system might have been contaminated? What other systems might have been contaminated?The US Navy's "investigation" of the turret explosion on the USS Iowa doesn't give me much confidence that we'll be told the truth about conditions aboard the USS Reagan during its exposure to Fukushima radiation, or about what action has been taken to decontaminate the $4.3 billion dollar carrier. Wasserman . . . In the midst of a snow storm, deck hands were enveloped in a warm cloud that came with a metallic taste. Sailors testify that the Reagan’s 5,500-member crew was told over the ship’s intercom to avoid drinking or bathing in desalinized water drawn from a radioactive sea. The huge carrier quickly ceased its humanitarian efforts and sailed 100 miles out to sea, where newly published internal Navy communications confirm it was still taking serious doses of radioactive fallout. Still taking serious doses of radioactive fallout.For how long? Wasserman . . . Tepco and the Navy contend the Reagan did not receive a high enough dose to warrant serious concern. But Japan, South Korea and Guam deemed the carrier too radioactive to enter their ports. Tepco and the Navy are insisting that all is well.Yeah. Thanks for looking into this, keep up the good work! Watch heckler inside Supreme Court shout 'money is not speech' The long, sordid history of discrimination against Christians in America O'Reilly: 'There's gotta be some downside to having a woman president' Republican lobbyist drafts bill barring 'self-declared homosexual football players' from NFL teams About the Koch brothers and cancer victims David Koch The most egregious of the Koch brothers anti-Obamacare ads has been the one featuring Julie Boonstra, a leukemia patient who made a lot of vague and easily disproved assertions about how Obamacare was hurting her. The response from the Koch brothers' astroturf group, Americans for Prosperity, to anyone pointing out that Boonstra's claims were not believable has been basically "how can you be so mean to a cancer victim?" Well, since the Kochs want to play the cancer victim card, let's do it. Let's start back in 2010. A prominent philanthropist, cancer survivor, and American businessman, David Koch, has given millions to the cause of cancer research, while his company—Koch Industries—has lobbied against formal recognition of formaldehyde as a carcinogen, The New Yorker reported in a piece published today. [...]The National Cancer Institute published a study in 2009 concluding that formaldehyde causes cancer in humans. [...] [P]rior to the May 2009 study, the National Cancer Institute had also performed a preliminary study that linked formaldehyde to leukemia, but members of Congress including Sens. James Inhofe, R-Okla., and David Vitter, R-La., managed to delay the EPA from officially designating the chemical as a “known carcinogen.” [...] In a letter to federal health authorities sent last December, the company’s vice-president of environmental affairs wrote that “the company ‘strongly disagrees’ with the N.I.H. panel’s conclusion that formaldehyde should be treated as a known human carcinogen,” reported The New Yorker. Koch Industries bought Georgia-Pacific, one of the world’s largest plywood manufacturers—a process that uses and produces a great deal of formaldehyde—in 2005. But David Koch cares deeply about cancer victims. Not so much about preventing people from getting cancer by keeping carcinogens out of the atmosphere, but once they've got it, he's there. You know what else besides formaldehyde are carcinogens? Butadiene and benzene. About that, August, 2013: Flint Hills Resources reported a benzene and butadiene leak late Tuesday at its olefins plant in Port Arthur, Texas, the company said in a filing with the National Response Center.According to the filing, 325 pounds of butadiene and 268 pounds of benzene was released into the atmosphere. The report also stated there was an equipment failure that caused the leak and that it has been secured. You know what happens next: "Flint Hills Resources is an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries, Inc." And guess who ranks #14 in the top 100 of Political Economy Research Institute's Toxic 100 Air Polluters? "The Toxic 100 Air Polluters ranks corporations based on the chronic human health risk from all of their U.S. polluting facilities." "Chronic human health risk." Yep, and the fact-checkers are the bad guys when it comes to a cancer victim. 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Dirty Energy Koch Attacking Rep. Gary Peters (D-MI)

Is it time to stop the Dirty Energy Koch Brothers and their lies?

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Kudos to this rep for so unapologetically and forcefully fighting back here.

Michigan Democrat taking Koch brothers head on over Obamacare

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Rep. Gary Peters (D-MI) is running for Senate, and has been the target of one of the most shameless examples of Koch brothers lying ads...

 

Take SECRET MONEY out of elections!

Please add your name to the petition below and join with others insisting on transparency:

 

Corporations and other outside groups spent over one billion dollars in the 2012 elections, and we cannot let that happen again. As it stands, anonymous and secretive interest groups can give unlimited contributions without disclosing a single one of their donors.

In Citizens United, the Supreme Court created this system that is fundamentally at odds with our American values. It's our job to fix that. The undeniable fact that we don't know if the corporations we buy from are financing these shady ads is simply unacceptable.

Every American voter pays the price for this system. Each of us deserves to know more information before we cast our ballots. Join Senators Coons, Heitkamp, Klobuchar, Manchin, Warner and me in adding your name - right now - to ensure Congress takes a stand against secret money now.

Add your name to call on Congress to take a stand against secret money in elections, right now.

It is against American values for corporations and other groups to spend millions influencing elections just to increase their profits. When I invest in a company or shop at a store, I want to know if that group is using my money to finance secretive - and often untrue - ads.

We are facing an onslaught of negative campaign ads like we've never seen before. That's because of the actions of corporations, not individual voters. This interferes with the democratic process, and it's up to us to remedy the current system.

Join with me in declaring that corporations should not have hidden, unlimited influence in elections. Call on Congress to stand up to corporations - sign my petition against secret money in elections, right now.

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Thank you,

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Koch Brothers pay actors to pose as Louisianans upset with Obamacare

Folks, Don't believe the Phony Koch-Funded attack ads!

The Dirty Energy Kochs are promoting their extremist agenda, like the Tea Party they funded.

Now, they're paying ACTORS?

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This is despicable.....

Please add your name to oppose the continued LIES about the Affordable Care Act.

The Republican Extremists, funded by the likes of the Dirty Energy Koch Brothers have worked to sabotage 'Obamacare' [A/K/A RomneyCare].

Americans need HEALTH CARE!

Why would anyone deny it unless they're so determined to oppose a Black President?


This is despicable:

Ted Cruz is trying to use health reform’s rocky start as justification to repeal the whole law. He thinks this is his BIG CHANCE to manipulate people into believing that the Affordable Care Act should be completely scrapped -- dragging this country back to a broken insurance system and lining the pockets of executives.

We can’t let him get away with this.

Let's get over 1 million strong standing up for Obamacare and calling out Cruz and his Tea Party Republican buddies for their deceptive scare tactics:

Automatically sign your name to say you support Obamacare >>

We need to respond to his rhetoric of fear immediately.

Thanks for your support.

Still blindly following the Koch's Tea Party?

New York State consulted the Koch Brother’s Company concerning their contracting of Election Voting Machines

Posted by FREDERICA CADE ⋅ November 13, 2013

 

The Koch Brothers are known for oil and energy and are lesser known for some of its other companies. Not only have the Koch brothers spent millions on elections, many states have spent millions using them as leasing company, and the one question remained did the Koch Brothers have anything involved to do with the … Continue reading »


State Documents I acquired Show One South Carolina City has Outstanding City Debts being Paid to the Koch Brothers, and another major County that Paid

Absurd, Republican donor, the Koch Brother’s Commercial telling Young People to say NO to Obamacare, while They took Millions from the President’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009


Koch Brothers Laid off Thousands while Spending Big on Campaigns, Conservative Think Tanks, Lobbying, etc.

What's Good For the Kochs Isn't Good For Americans!

The Dirty Energy Koch Brothers have generously funded opposition to Cape Wind, the wind energy project that would FREE Cape Cod from DIRTY ENERGY, funded GLOBAL WARMING DENIERS, funded OBAMACARE LIES, and much else.

It's time to stop marching to the Tea Bag Propaganda that benefits the Kochs.

Please add your name to the PETITION.

Left Action

Groups connected to the Koch brothers have spent hundreds of millions smearing Democratic candidates, all while using disclosure laws to conceal their backers.

It's time for these groups to come clean. It's outrageous that these gazillionaire mega-donors are allowed to do this in secret, while normal donations to candidates from small donors are public information.

Send a message, and demand that the Koch linked groups reveal their donors.

 

Demand Koch Linked Groups Reveal Donors

Groups connected to the Koch brothers have spent hundreds of millions smearing Democratic candidates, all while using disclosure laws to conceal their backers.

The Kochs' number one goal is destroying Obamacare and trampling President Obama's legacy. We can't afford to let that happen.

Join Senate Democrats and stand against the flood of unregulated outside Republican money. We need to work together if we're going to cut through Republican lies and attacks to defend progressive policies and values.
 
Send a message, and demand that the Koch linked groups reveal their donors.

 

History Channel As Mouthpiece for Koch

Interesting observation!

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If you're watching some of the garbage on the "history channel" you're putting money in the Koch's pocket - and the Tea Party's coffers.

Watch Evidence of the History Channel Being Nothing But a Mouthpiece for the Right Wing (VIDEOS)

Posted by: Richard Rowe

September 7, 2013

Pay close enough attention to commercials, and you can learn everything you need to know about anyone. Commercials can allow us to look into our web of ties to Corporate America, put its spiders on a single string and understand the loops they weave to catch the greediest of flies.

Lately, the Koch brothers (manifesting as Americans for Prosperity) have been tapping the sweet, retired, conservative oldness of the History Channel’s daytime demographics. During any particular episode of Pawn Stars, you might see an ad like this:

Yes, that’s one of the many ads that the History (and Military History) Channel play during daytime hours, and the web address given takes you here, to a page talking about the risk factors involved with the implementation of Obamacare. While claiming to “answer” questions about Obamacare (no “Affordable Care Act” crap here), the Koch Bros. website reads like a list of things that Bill “Harlem Jazz” Clinton would laugh at. Watch his defense of Obamacare here:

But give the Koch Brothers’ marketing people credit; its reach into the brains of History viewers is more deeply multilayered than you might think. In an epic example of political crossover, Pawn Stars Rick Harrison has become the latest darling adopted by the Corporatist Right; on June 21st, he popped his slightly bulbous head into Glen Beck’s holy of holies :

During the course of the interview, Harrison took the opportunity to go on recored complaining about Nevada’s zoning laws, and the fact that it would have cost him $400,000 to tear down a wall to expand his showroom into the warehouse. See, the Pawn Shop is in a Vegas historic district, which probably means that Frank Sinatra buried a hooker there. Like most places in historic districts, permits for demolition (particularly on load-bearing walls) are very difficult to obtain because they affect the resale value of the building. For someone who buys and sells history for a living, you’d think Rick Harrison would be a little more understanding.

Harrison also went off on a tear about a sexual predator who hadn’t been convicted in Utah. Though he might have mentioned that Utah’s violent crime and sexual assault rates per capita suddenly spiked by nearly a third higher in the ten years after private prison company MTC set up shop in 1980. But, where there’s money to be made, the spiders will spin webs.

And money is what it really comes down to, doesn’t it? You could take the cynical, ad hominem route and point out that of course, a person who bargains for the highest price, sells and resells other peoples’ valuables for a living, is naturally prone to centering his life around money. Then, there’s the “Vegas Effect” of greed and gambling. But, it takes more than location and predisposition to turn a businessman into a corporatist drone.

Rick Harrison has the same problem that most small business owners and medium-high income earners do in this country: small businesses and the kind-of wealthy do bear the greatest burden of taxes in this country: smaller companies can’t hire accountants to squeeze the company through every loophole in the book, so they wind up paying most of the full 39 percent ALL companies are supposed to pay.

http://aattp.org/watch-evidence-of-the-history-channel-being-nothing-but-a-mouthpiece-for-the-right-wing/

 

Koch Lies About Obamacare

Do you believe the lies about the Affordable Care Act?

Who would deny Americans health care?
It's important that American Families have affordable and accessible Health Care.

Only The Tea Party Funding Koch Brothers would deny that care because they want to turn America into a Banana Republic!  

It's time to stop believing and collect the FACTS.

Obamacare is SAVING money, reducing premiums, providing more CHOICE, as well as protecting families.

The Knowledge Movement

Koch Brothers Blowing Millions To Spread Lies About Obamacare.

http://newsone.com/2629264/koch-brothers-obamacare/

Koch Brothers Blowing Millions To Spread Lies About Obamacare

Jul 9, 2013

ByMichael Arceneaux

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My God, do these House Republicans not know when to take the L and move on to the next? The answer is no. On Tuesday, Speaker John Boehner announced that the House of Representatives will vote again to repeal part of Obamacare — specifically the provision that requires individuals to have health insurance. You know, because the conservative-led Supreme Court upholding such a requirement wasn’t convincing enough evidence to them to let it ride.

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This morning, Boehner said, “I think what the President did is outrageous. The idea that we’re going to give big businesses a break under Obamacare, but we’re going to punish small businesses and families? It’s wrong, and we’ll have another vote. Count on it.”

This is the part in which I wish I could say, “Smithers, release the hounds!” and Boehner would scurry away and find something better to do to occupy his time.

Like, say, drafting a jobs bill.

To be fair, there is valid criticism floating about the Obama administration’s decision to delay implementation of a key component of the Affordable Health Care for America Act — panning it with a similar sentiment as stated by Boehner. Frankly, it does seem frustrating to delay a measure that some companies have already started enacting.

Still, Boehner cares as much about small business owners with respect to HR 3962 as George Zimmerman loves Black youth.

It’s a disingenuous act, and of all the things the House could be doing right now, posturing shouldn’t be at the top of the list. I wish this debate about a law that was deemed legal would go the hell away already. Sadly, it won’t and part of the reason why is due to two of the GOP’s greatest sugar daddies: the Koch Brothers (pictured), who are keeping this debate alive for self-serving reasons.

A recent New York Times report reveals that “in one of the largest campaigns of its kind, Americans for Prosperity, a conservative advocacy group financed in part by Charles and David Koch, will begin running television commercials this week asserting that the law will limit Americans’ health care choices.”

The group will spend more than $1 million on the campaign with targeted ads running in states like Ohio and Virginia. Moreover, there will be online ads directing people to test their “Obamacare risk factors.” As you can see from the posted ad, the campaign will target young women. Indeed, the ads will run during shows like “Chopped,” “Law & Order: SVU,” and “Good Morning America.”

Tim Phillips, the group’s president, claims their intention with the ads is to “start softening the ground” ahead of implementation. Phillips explains, “Too often we fell into a broad-based ideological argument, and I think we failed to get at ‘look at what they’re doing and how it impacts you.’ I think where we win is on the impact of a specific policy.”

No, their intention is to lie.

Take, “Julie” for instance, claiming in the ad, ”If we can’t pick our own doctor, how do I know our family is going to get the care they need?” There’s nothing in the law preventing anyone from selecting their own physician. And if you take a gander at the site that accompanies this ad, aptly called Obamariskfactors.com, you’ll find claims such as, “Many families could be punished for their personal health care choices due to ObamaCare.”

This reads as a little too déjà vu for my liking particularly once you realize how much has already been spent fighting this fight.
As the New York Times notes:

The Campaign Media Analysis Group at Kantar Media estimates that from 2010, when the law was signed, to 2015, $1 billion will be spent on ads that criticize or defend it. That includes ads for candidates who oppose the law. Half of the $1 billion has already been spent, the group said.

Can you imagine what that money could’ve done besides trolling the hell out of Americans?
Just a suggestion: I’d love it if the GOP and the Koch Brothers go stand in a corner, sing the following song, finally accept defeat, and then proceed to go work toward something that might actually benefit someone besides multinational corporations:



But that would be too much like right, wouldn’t it?


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