Kudos to Huffington Post for keeping track of this:
Health care keeps coming up in the approach to the 2018 midterms. And Republicans keep deceiving the public about it, because they are desperate to show that they didn’t try to strip away protections for people with pre-existing conditions when, in fact, they did.
On Monday evening, it was Martha McSally’s turn. McSally, GOP nominee for Arizona’s open Senate seat, currently serves in the House. Last year, she voted for her party’s bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, including regulations that block insurers from discriminating against people with pre-existing conditions.
In a closed-door meeting on the day of the vote, McSally reportedly stood up and told colleagues that it was time to get this “f**king thing” done.
One year later, the vote and the quote have become political liabilities. McSally’s opponent, House Democrat Krysten Sinema, cites them constantly as proof that McSally would leave some people with cancer, diabetes and other conditions unable to get coverage.
That doesn’t sit well with voters, according to polls ― and so, when the subject came up Monday during a televised debate between the two, McSally did what so many other Republicans facing similar charges have done.
McSally insisted that Sinema’s criticisms were unfair.
“I voted to protect people with pre-existing conditions,” McSally said. “We cannot go back to where we were before Obamacare, where people were one diagnosis away from going bankrupt, because they could not get access to health care.”
McSally went on to accuse Sinema of lying ― three separate times. But McSally was the one rewriting history.
Read the whole article. It lays out all the facts that call out McSally’s bull shit. By the way, McSally sounded really desperate in her attacks against Sinema:
Republican Martha McSally accused Democrat Kyrsten Sinema of “treason” Monday night, latching onto recent reports about Sinema’s comments as an antiwar activist at the end of a contentious, fiery Arizona Senate debate.
Near the end of the hourlong debate, McSally attacked Sinema over the comments from a radio show in 2003, reported last week by CNN. The host made a hypothetical comment about joining the Taliban, to which Sinema responded: "I don't care if you want to do that, go ahead."
McSally demanded an apology, accusing her fellow congresswoman of saying “it’s OK to commit treason.” Sinema didn’t respond to the attack or explain her past comments, instead accusing McSally of running a negative campaign by using “ridiculous attacks and trying to smear my campaign.”
And McSally physically showed how desperate she came off:
Aaron Kall, director of debate at the University of Michigan, said McSally's tone and body language conveyed frustration with the debate format, the moderators and Sinema's performance, in which she presented herself as a centrist Democrat who had successfully worked with Republicans while in Congress.
Kall, citing McSally's yelling over the moderators and her gesturing, said, "In real time, McSally was realizing that this kind of makeover or transformation, or independent streak ... may be working in relating to voters, especially low-information voters who may be tuning in for the first time."
Kall said it almost appeared as though McSally could not believe what she was witnessing.
"She was trying to connote anger, and almost like a stern lecturing, not just at her opponent but the moderators," Kall said. "Like she had information, but it wasn't breaking through."
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