Russian asset Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans have succeeded in doing something President Obama and the Democrats couldn't do—make the Affordable Care Act popular with the majority of voters. So much so that all 47 Democrats in the Senate, along with the two independents, have signed on to a resolution to demand the Senate go to court to defend Obamacare against the Trump administration and states in the Texas v. United States challenge to the law.
This is such a political turn-around, it's Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) who's leading the charge, along with Missouri's Claire McCaskill, and getting some good home-state press for it, too.
“This is a life-or-death issue,” Manchin said. “We’re asking all of our friends and colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle to join with us. To basically join with us to stand up and speak out against this horrible, horrible position that the attorneys’ general office has taken in my state, in Claire’s state, but also the Department of Justice.”
Manchin's also been slamming Trump's Justice Department for its decision "to abandon its obligation to defend the law and the constitutionality of protections for people with pre-existing conditions. The loss of these protections would be devastating in West Virginia, where nearly 40% of our residents have a pre-existing condition. We cannot go back to a time where insurance companies played God."
Tellingly, both Manchin's and McCaskill's Republican opponents this fall are their state's attorneys general, both of whom have signed onto the lawsuit. Clearly, the days when Democrats were afraid to defend Obamacare are over, and Republicans who've been sabotaging it for eight years are going to face a reckoning.
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