The Most Embarrassing Efforts to Spin CBO’s Obamacare Report as ‘Good’ News

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A bombshell Congressional Budget report released this week indicated that the Affordable Care Act Obamacare will result in the equivalent of 2.5 million workers voluntarily leaving the workforce by 2024, all taking their productivity with them. The report is politically devastating for ACA Obamacare supporters, and they know it. Their flailing reaction to that report speaks to the adverse impact it could have on Democrats’ political position ahead of the 2014 midterms.

The last 48 hours have produced some of the finest, most rarified examples of spin the political universe has been privy to in some time. It’s been a veritable windfall for consumers of political discourse who enjoy observing painful rhetorical contortions.

◼ Dem Rep. Gwen Moore’s Hilarious Defense of CBO Report: “People Don’t Want A Promotion, Because They Will Pay More Taxes”… - Weasel Zippers via Tom Del Beccaro

Then you have Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI), who appeared virtually incoherent Thursday on MSNBC while trying to explain away “pathetic” Republicans accurately quoting the CBO.

“You could say people don’t want a promotion, because if they make more money they’ll have to pay more taxes,” Moore said in false equivalence. This makes sense only to those who do not currently pay income taxes on their wages – which may, in fact, be her intended audience.