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Catch of the Day: Republicans Fire, and Miss, at Obamacare
If Republicans want to go after the health-care law, they need better testimonials.
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Kevin Drum at Mother Jones asks the obvious question about yet another overinflated or inaccurate Obamacare sob story from Republicans, in this case, from an advertisement produced by Americans for Prosperity :
For the details about this particular story, see Glenn Kessler's column in the Washington Post. See also a good item on testimonial ads from Bloomberg View's Francis Wilkinson. Seriously: It's not as if the occasional Obamacare horror story turns out to be exaggerated; every single one propagated by Republicans has fallen apart under scrutiny.