Why is this man smiling?
Kentucky is shaping up to be one of the real success stories for Obamacare, thanks in large part to the unfailing efforts of Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear to make it work. Beshear's getting a little sick of his state's senior senator ignoring that success, and has a
challenge for Mitch McConnell. Come home and check it out.
"I want to publicly invite our entire federal delegation to come back to Kentucky as [Democratic Rep.] John Yarmuth does all the time and come over to our center, our nerve center where we’re running this program and see for yourself what is going on," Beshear. "When you see that, I think you’ll quit saying this will not work and Kentuckians don't want it."
He said he expects McConnell’s criticism of the law will come back to haunt him.
"I have a U.S. senator who keeps saying Kentuckians don't want this," Beshear said. "Well, the facts don't prove that out. There's about 550,000 on our website right now who want it. And some 65,000 to 69,000 that have signed up. So Kentuckians do want it."
That is at the core of McConnell's re-election nightmare. He's got to keep running as an anti-Obamacare teabagger to fend off his primary challenger, and contend with the fact that he's been proven a liar about the law's success. To top it off, he's got more than a half a million constituents who have experienced it working. That's going to put him in just a little bit of a bind.