On Friday’s Hannity, guests Rick Unger and Mike Gallagher discussed the Mark Udall health insurance scandal in Colorado.
Liberal Democrat Mark Udall essentially tried to strong-arm the Colorado Division of Insurance into changing their numbers regarding how many people had their health insurance policies cancelled as a result of the implementation of Obamacare.
What Udall wanted was for the DoI to reduce their reported cancellation numbers by about 95% because some people who had their insurance cancelled were offered options for new insurance. Isn’t that neat? If you steal 250 kids’ milk money, but offer about 237 of them a sip of water, then you only stole milk money from 13 kids. That’s Udall’s logic.
Moe Lane reports:
Back in the beginning of November the Colorado DoI reported that 249,199 Coloradans had received notices indicating that their insurance policies had been canceled. This apparently caused Udall’s office to flat-out freak; they started going after DoI officials to, ah, ‘revise’ those numbers.
The emails Hannity references in the above clip can be found at the link.
Sean points out the obvious, that changing those numbers to Udall’s imaginary happy good fun time number would be what we in the business call “a lie.” Gallagher has a great response:
And don’t we agree that when somebody, an elected official is pushing this hard and intimidating somebody into thinking these numbers are what they’re not … listen, the media is going to pounds away at bridgegate morning, noon and night but these kinds of stories are happening every single day.
This is exactly right. The mainstream media avoids stories like these like the plague because it hits three of their sacred cows: He’s a democrat, the numbers look bad for Obamacare, and it’s a reflection of this administration’s ongoing obfuscation on the numbers nationwide. But they’ll be blasting the GWB story every hour of every day for the foreseeable future. It’s inevitable.
Democrat strategist Rick Unger comes up with no defense, except to say something incoherent about someone being out of town and Udall lodging complaints with the newspaper. Or something. I would bet all the money in my wallet that if he were asked about Bridgegate he’d be coherent, and full of condemnation. Are you willing to risk 92 cents to take that bet?
Sorry Mark Udall, but 250,000 people received cancellations. That’s the number. No matter how many of them got a sip of water to go with their kick in the ass.
By the way, Udall is up for reelection. Did I happen to mention that?