Photo Credit: APBy Susan Jones.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says despite all the “good news” about Obamacare, “there’s plenty of horror stories being told, all of them untrue — but they’re being told all over America.”
In a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday, Reid complained that Republicans, with help from wealthy donors — he named the Koch brothers — are telling “tall tales” and “outright lies” about Obamacare in stump speeches and political advertisements.
“Republicans may need tall tales and outright lies to convince people that Obamacare’s bad for them — but Democrats — we don’t have to make things up,” Reid said.”
To illustrate his point, Reid read a letter from Jane Thomas, one of his Nevada constituents, who was able to quit her job as a school teacher “thanks to Obamacare.”
“This story is true,” Reid said. “For years, Jane was locked into a job as a school teacher because she, (her husband) and her two teenage children needed guaranteed health insurance. And it cost a lot. But Jane was able to quit her teaching job, spend more time with her children, and help her husband with the family’s small business. Jane says the Affordable Care Act has literally changed her life.”
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‘They’re All Lying?’ GOP Replies to Reid Claim ‘All’ Obamacare Horror Stories Untrue
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said today that despite all the good news on Obamacare, “There’s plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they’re being told all over America.”
It’s a pretty bold claim that all the stories about cancelled policies are false – but Reid goes a step farther, and blames the Koch brothers in a halting speech from the Senate floor.
“The leukemia patient whose insurance policy was canceled [who] would die without her medication, Mr. President, that’s an ad being paid for by two billionaire brothers. It’s absolutely false.”
“Or the woman whose insurance policy went up $700 a month,” Reid continued. “Ads paid for around America by the multibillionaire Koch brothers, and the ad is false.”
“We heard about the evils of Obamacare, about the lives it’s ruining in Republicans’ stump speeches and in ads paid for by oil magnates, the Koch brothers. But in those tales, turned out to be just that: tales, stories made up from whole cloth, lies distorted by the Republicans to grab headlines or make political advertisements.
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Kansas Senators SLAM Harry Reid
By Chuck Ross.
Photo Credit: REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstBoth Kansas senators took to the Senate floor Thursday to hit back against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for saying that the Kansas-based Koch brothers are “un-American.”
“Yesterday two prominent citizens were called unpatriotic merely because they have engaged, legally I must say, in their First Amendment right to participate in the political process,” said Kansas Republican Sen. Pat Roberts.
“I was saddened, I was dismayed, I was discouraged to see the floor of the Senate used as a venue for such campaign-related attacks”, said Roberts, who called Democrats’ focus on the Kochs’ political spending “all part of a coordinated plan” and an “abuse of power.”
In two Senate floor speeches on Wednesday, Reid lashed out at Charles and David Koch, the primary owners of Koch Industries, which is based in Wichita, Kansas.
“Despite all that good news [of Obamacare], there’s plenty of horror stories being told. All are untrue, but they’re being told all over America,” said Reid in his first floor speech on Wednesday.
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