Ask Republicans about jobs, they’ll answer about Obamacare

By Dana Milbank,
WashPost
Wednesday, October 5, 4:02 PM

By most of the usual measures, President Obama has no business being reelected. Here’s why he might be anyway.

On Wednesday morning, as Senate Democratic leaders were scrambling to find a way to enact part of Obama’s jobs bill, a dozen Republican lawmakers assembled outside the Capitol to complain about . . . health-care reform.

“Every day I get up, I do at least something to fight Obamacare,” Rep. Steve King (Iowa) announced to the cameras.

Sen. Jim DeMint (S.C.) proclaimed that the year-and-a-half-old law meant the “socialization of medicine.”

“Monstrous!” contributed Rep. Joe Pitts (Pa.). “This was a 2,733-page bill! . . . No amendments! . . . Partisan vote!”

Maybe so, gentlemen, but don’t you have something better to do with your time?

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