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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) on May 4 scolded House Republicans for passing a health-care bill aiming to revise the Affordable Care Act. (Reuters)

The Democrats and their allies in the media want you to believe two conflicting certainties about the recently passed House Republican health-care bill. First, they want you to think that this bill doesnt amount to anything that its not a victory for Trump, will never become law, and has been completely disregarded by the Senate. Second, they want you to think that Republicans repeal-and-replace bill is a catastrophic development for the GOP and the nation that it will cost Republicans their majority, is certainly political suicide for the party as a whole, and is already adversely affecting the health of many Americans. But the health-care bill simply cannot amount to nothing on the one hand and deal a fatal blow to the entire Republican Party and be a plague on the population on the other.

In listening toHouse and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and SenateMinority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), one is led to believe that the pain and suffering caused by the Republican health-care bill will be unbearable, that widows and orphans will be dropping like flies. Even former president Barack Obama took a break from his jet-setting, yacht-sailing life to prevailupon Congress the need to exercise political courage in not repealing Obamacare. The Democrats comments are just partisan spin meant to distract from the real story that liberals beloved Obamacare is falling apart.

Since the Houses successful repeal-and-replace vote, the liberal media has relentlessly supported Democrats most extreme pronouncements. Politicoembraced the warped narrative about the bills campaign consequences, publishing a story Saturday with the headlineObamacare repeal vote upends 2018 House landscape.

But buried deep in that story are wise words from veteran GOP strategist Curt Anderson, who appropriately noted, Those who think Republicans will be defeated because of this vote are either in a parallel universe, or have been asleep for the past seven years. The notion that Obamacare is suddenly popular and will be missed is a mirage that seems real during the fog of war, but will disappear as you get closer to it.

Hes right. Obamacare is not popular now, and it definitely was not popular in 2014 when Republicans took control over the House and Senate for the first time in eightyears. Just look at Mondays CNBC report indicating that 60 percent of small-business owners support a repeal of Obamacare. They are the engine of job creation in the United States, they understand how harmful Obamacare has been to business. Still, leave it to CNNs always predictable Don Lemon to argue that Obamacare is collapsing only because President Trump is causing uncertainty among insurers. Give me a break.

But the lefts deceptive outrage does not end with Democratic congressional leaders or Don Lemon. The award for the most pretentious, sappy and over-the-top production goes to Rep.Joe Kennedy (D-Mass.), whose speech on the House floor was edited by a liberal organization to include a solemn violin soundtrack. Im serious. Striking a made-for-bad-TV pose, Kennedy argued that the repeal of Obamacare rejects common humanity and continues the administrations calculated attempt to divide up our nation. And the New York Times Charles Blow similarly weighed in with the wild overstatement that [w]hatever eventually comes of the bill, the death threat it poses for many Americans may well be a death wish Republicans have just issued for their own careers.

Its all a tad too much.

When Republicans voted to repeal and replace Obamacare last week, they fulfilled a major campaign promise, advanced the presidents agenda, and demonstrated the partys commitment to addressing the concerns of struggling Americans and taking the foot of Obamacare off the neck of small businesses, even as the Democrats refused to come to the table.

I cant help but question whether Democrats really think people are buying the argument that Republicans dont just want take away your health care, but want you dead, too. Does the left really believe people are so gullible, so naive? Maybe they just dont have anything affirmative to say.

I think the left is dreading the prospect of seeing a strong Republican Party get its act together and keep its promise to repeal and replace Obamacare. And, if this is the debate they really want to have, the Democrats drama and faux anguish only serve to damage their credibility.

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The Democrats aren't being honest about health care - Washington Post (blog)