Republican Senator Leads The Obamacare-Denial Charge

Obamacare denial is about to become an epic event with the success of open-enrollment for the Affordable Care Act.

Fasten your seatbelts, the spin and Obamacare-Denial is about to take-off for the GOP, the Tea Party, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and others.

Leading the charge is ultra-conservative Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) who kicked off the festivities on Fox News Sunday, accusing the Obama administration of “cooking the books” for Obamacare enrollment.

Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) on Sunday dismissed the White House’s recent announcement that Obamacare enrollment had reached more than 6 million people, calling it a meaningless figure.

“I don’t think it means anything. … I think they’re cooking the books on this,” said Barrasso on “Fox News Sunday.”

Of course, we cannot forget that those very same numbers were incredibly important to Barrasso late last year when the numbers didn’t look so promising.

Only a handful of Wyoming residents have managed to enroll in troubled #Obamacare exchange network http://t.co/7NqiDGRjkI

— Sen. John Barrasso (@SenJohnBarrasso) October 22, 2013

As MSNBC points out: “Republicans have suddenly become Luke Skywalker, learning who his father is for the first time.”

“No! That’s not true!” they say. “That’s impossible!”

Reality, however, is stubborn. It’s eerily reminiscent of Election Night 2012 – conservatives had spent months telling themselves that the polls are wrong, the evidence was skewed, and the facts had been manipulated by rascally liberals, so they were absolutely shocked when President Obama won a second term rather easily.

A year and a half later, conservatives have told each other repeatedly that the entire federal health care system is collapsing, “Obamacare” has entered an inescapable a “death spiral,” and consumers simply have no interest in signing up for coverage. The epistemic closure was unyielding and effective.

Which makes it easier to understand why confused senators would rather believe the White House is “cooking the books” than deal with the facts as they exist.

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