Inside The GOP's Plan To Exploit Obamacare In 2014

[Triana]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In his West Virginia district, the TV ads attacking Democratic Rep. Nick Rahall over the calamitous startup of President Barack Obama's health care law have already begun.

The 19-term veteran, a perennial target in a GOP-shifting state, is among many in the president's party who have recited to constituents Obama's assurance that they could keep insurance coverage they liked under the 2010 overhaul. That has proved untrue for several million Americans, igniting a public uproar that has forced Obama to reverse himself on part of the law and sent many Democrats scrambling into political self-preservation mode ahead of next year's midterm elections.

On Friday, Rahall was among 39 Democrats who, despite an Obama veto threat, voted for a GOP measure that would let insurers continue selling policies to individuals that fall short of the health care law's requirements. It was approved 261-157.

"I'm concerned about my integrity with voters who have returned me here 38 years. They know me enough to know I wouldn't purposely mislead them," Rahall said this week. "They have that confidence in me, and I want them to continue to have that confidence in me."

THE DAMN REST:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-the-gop-s-plan-to-exploit-obamacare-in-2014

[ProSense]

1. Rahall is

among the perpetually scared Democrats who jump whenever the RW says so.

The Obamacare "revolt" that isn't...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024045120
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024045120#post5

Republican crocodile tears over lost insurance
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024046166

Interestingly, WV accepted the Medicaid expansion.

[Triana]

2. He & other Dems need to quit whining & stand behind the President

And the President needs to stand up for the ACA law - which says that any policies sold must meet certain minimum standards. No one - none of these Dems - should be backing down from this.