Critics Cling to Gruber Comments Like 'Life Raft' With Lack of 'Bad News' on ObamaCare

Kyle Drennen | November 17, 2014
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More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.

Appearing on MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports on Monday, Molly Ball of The Atlantic argued that the reason ObamaCare critics were seizing on the comments from Jonathan Gruber was because things were going so well for the law: "...part of the reason this controversy has become such a focal point is that there isn't a lot of other bad news about ObamaCare. The website is operating....The people who have care are pretty happy with it. Most Republicans, even the leadership, admit that they're not going to do a wholesale repeal."

Ball continued: "So I think a lot of critics are seizing on this because it's a sort of life raft for them to be maybe say, 'Maybe we can stir up outrage anew at the way this was originally done and get some more momentum for repeal,' which at this point does not look like much of a possibility."

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