Mitch McConnell, Partisan Hack And Liar

The ACA (Obama Care) has been a great success in Kentucky. So what is Mitch McConnell who is facing a tough general election race to do? He tries to have his cake and eat it too and lie. Well a Kentucky newspaper has called him out.

One of the biggest newspapers in Kentucky is taking Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to task for taking a bizarre new position on Obamacare and Kentucky’s state-based Obamacare exchange, Kynect.

McConnell has recently begun arguing that while Obamacare should be repealed, the state of Kentucky should be able to keep the Kynect system as it is, even if the federal law the system is based on were to be uprooted completely.

“If Obamacare is repealed, Kentucky should decide for itself whether to keep Kynect or set up a different marketplace,” McConnell campaign spokeswoman Allison Moore told TPM on Tuesday.

That doesn’t quite add up to the editorial board of the Lexington Herald-Leader.

It doesn’t add up because without Obamacare Kynect would not be sustainable.

“Repeal the federal law, which McConnell calls ‘Obamacare,’ and the state exchange would collapse,” the editorial said on Wednesday. “Kynect could not survive without the ACA’s insurance reforms, including no longer allowing insurance companies to cancel policies when people get sick or deny them coverage because of pre-existing conditions, as well as the provision ending lifetime limits on benefit payments. (Kentucky tried to enact such reforms in the 1990s and found out we were too small a market to do it alone.)”

The editorial goes on to say that Kynect wouldn’t be able to survive without the federal funding from Obamacare.

So once again McConnell has demonstrated what most of us already knew, he is nothing more than a not too bright partisan hack. Will this be enough to defeat him in November? To early to tell.