I wrote Sen. Pat Toomey (R -- duh) to protest the way he keeps soliciting only negative stories about Obamacare as if nobody in Pennsylvania has actually been helped by it. I got a reply back from him (okay, from his office; same difference) that not only repeats his mendacious requests for negative stories only but adds a new lie: "To make matters worse, the newly uninsured - including many Pennsylvanians - are not able to obtain new coverage online because the ObamaCare website is not functioning properly."
Of course, the only reason Pennsylvanians have to use the federal exchange is because Republican governor Tom Corbett refused to set up a state exchange! There is no possible way Toomey doesn't know this, so his little whopper quoted above can only be a complete and total lie on his part, a deliberate attempt to try to displace the blame he knows full well he and his party deserve.
How stupid does he think I am? How stupid is his office, to send out this kind of canned nonsense to someone who obviously is not going to buy it? I guess he feels Pennsylvanians must be pretty stupid considering we elected him to the Senate in the first place. But that's a grossly cynical attitude even for a Tea Partier.
I wrote back pointing out the fact that Pennsylvania refused to set up a state exchange, for all the good it will do. I know I'll get another canned response that pays no attention to what I actually wrote. I hope I'm not the only Pennsylvanian trying to get Sen. Toomey to stop lying, and I also hope he pays a big price for his lies and obstructionism in 2016.