One of the things we cats hate most in politics today is Republicans who try to portray themselves as "moderate" when they vote right-right-nutcase-wing on stuff, just like the Teabag Caucus does.
They try to do this because the goalposts keep shifting. Somebody like our upstate New York Congresswoman, Elise Stefanik, would have been a conservative in the old GOP. But since the party keeps going farther off deeper and deeper ends, she seems reasonable.
"Reasonable" no more. Happily, groups made up of real Americans who work hard and pay attention have decided that gauntlets should be thrown. The SEIU United Healthcare Workers East has taken out ads calling out Stefanik, her endangered Republican colleague John Faso in NY-19, and the totally crazy Claudia "Mass Shooters Are Democrats" Tenney in western New York for their votes against Obamacare. They're running radio ads, too.
This is just great, particularly since healthcare emerged as a critical issue in the recent special election in conservative Western Pennsylvania (won by the Democrat). Conor Lamb is a Congressman today because voters in his district were not only mad that the GOP was sabotaging Obamacare — they remembered to be mad.
Campaigns like this remind voters that Paul Ryan acolytes like Elise Stefanik shouldn't get away with acting like teabaggers without being noticed. We cats heartily approve, and we PURR.
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