GOP Rep: Press To Blame For Falsely Reporting We Wanted To Repeal Obamacare

Rep Raul Labrador of Idaho says it’s the fault of the “press” (read: “liberal media”) for claiming that Republicans wanted to overturn Obamacare and not properly reporting what Republicans were doing.  Say what?

“You guys in the media continued reporting that what the conservatives were asking for was the full repeal of Obamacare. That’s absolutely false,” said Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID), a member of the Republican Study Committee and the point person during the Wednesday briefing.

“We never asked for a full repeal of Obamacare because we can’t get that,” he said. “We have voted on a full repeal of Obamacare that the Senate has rejected every single time. But what we were asking for, our position from the beginning, was exchanging a one-year CR for a one-year delay of Obamacare. That was something we thought both sides were giving on something…

“Every time you write a story that Republicans and conservatives were unreasonable in asking for a complete repeal of Obamacare, you have actually been lying to the American people because that’s not what we were asking for,” Labrador said.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.