Rush Limbaugh: Republicans are getting ‘skunked’ by Democrats

◼ The conservative broadcaster joined ‘Fox and Friends,’ Tuesday morning over the phone, and criticized Republicans for failing to raise more awareness about the problems with Obamacare. - Charlie Spiering/Washington Examiner @charlesspiering

“Republicans are sitting around twiddling their thumbs, worried about immigration and whether the Hispanics like them or not, and being skunked on issue after issue after issue,” Limbaugh explained.

Limbaugh reminded the audience that the 2014 Congressional mid-term elections were critical to stopping Obama’s second term agenda – adding that it was a very real possibility that Democrats could take back the House.

“The 2014 mid-terms are really, really important,” he said. “Democrats win the House, then there is no such thing as a lame duck last two years for Obama. He’s going to have clear sailing.”

◼ Democrats trying to suppress confusion, hide cost of ObamaCare - Ed Rogers/Washington Post

...Smart Democrats are beginning to get frantic about the need to suppress the confusion and hide the cost of ObamaCare between now and the 2014 midterm elections. We are just three months away from the October 1st enrollment start date and so far, nothing about the ObamaCare implementation process should be politically encouraging for Democrats. In fact, the more people learn about ObamaCare, the more frightened they become....

Today’s Wall Street Journal article, ◼ “Health-insurance costs set for a jolt” hints at the debacle that is to come. At some point soon, it’s going to be undeniable that ObamaCare is nothing but another federal entitlement, where those who are young and healthy bear the direct cost of subsidizing those who are not.

In midterm elections, those who vote tend to be more engaged voters. In other words, these voters will notice if they have health insurance that is more expensive but offers less coverage than what they had before ObamaCare. Some of the Democrats’ reactions will be predictable, i.e. blaming Bush and blaming Republicans, or for a while, denying the obvious. But that won’t work forever. One of the worst sins you can commit in politics is to say something that’s different from what people can see for themselves. There is no chance that Obamacare will perform as promised and when it doesn’t, voters will be looking for relief.

◼ Health-insurance costs set for a jolt - Wall St. Journal

Healthy consumers could see insurance rates double or even triple when they look for individual coverage under the federal health law later this year, while the premiums paid by sicker people are set to become more affordable, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of coverage to be sold on the law's new exchanges.