After their bogus numbers debacle Thursday, House Republicans have gone back to insurance companies for more complete Obamacare enrollment data in order to, as they put it, “accurately capture” the number of enrollees who have paid their premiums. Dylan Scott reports.
State lawmaker says he’s “a little sore” over the negative backlash to his oped denouncing anal sex.
The Bundy bunch has vowed to head to the local sheriff’s office in Nevada this weekend to file a “criminal report” against the Bureau of Land Management.
Yesterday Dylan Scott was all over that bogus “survey” that the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent to insurance companies and the incomplete data it produced. Check out Dylan’s pieces here, here, and here and my elaboration here.
When Michael Tomasky approached committee staff, basically asking what gives?, here’s what they said:
A South Dakota lawmaker is calling for a statewide conversation on the dangers of anal sex and claims anti-anal sex forces have been silenced and intimidated into silence by pro-anal sex forces.
Insurance industry source tells TPM that the House GOP survey of how many Obamacare enrollees have actually paid their first premiums was “incredibly rigged.”
More on what the House GOP was up to here. And a copy of the actual survey form here.
As you know from last night, Mayor Rob Ford has now taken a leave of absence from his reelection campaign to enter rehab after two new “tapes” emerged – one audio recording of him terribly drunk saying he wanted to bed one of his mayoral opponents and a new video of him smoking crack.
In light of this week’s federal court decision overturning Wisconsin’s Voter ID law on the grounds it was a disproportionate burden on the poor. Seth D. Michaels nails the motivation behind these restrictions: “It doesn’t mean ‘only registered citizens vote.’ It means ‘only the right sort of people vote.'”
The evidence of Republicans playing fast and loose with the facts to discredit Obamacare is everywhere and has been for months. But I’m not sure there’s any one example that so neatly encapsulates the bad faith and unfair dealing as what happened last night.