Being new to this “writing” thing I still understand that there are days when one is simply in the zone, the words fly from pencil to paper effortlessly. Then there are stories that nearly write themselves. Finally, there are those rare occasions when the two meet and the story drifts over the plate like a mellon in slow motion. I’d like to think that it was so for Ben Dreyfuss, of Mother Jones, Monday afternoon, because he took Senator John Thune’s offering deep and unplayable.
A Republican Senator Just Sent Out a Tweet So Stupid Our Children Will Learn About It in Stories
—Ben Dreyfuss on Mon. June 8, 2015 5:26 PM PDTSen. John Thune (R-World Of Pure Imagination) sent out this tweet today in reference to the King v. Burwell lawsuit that’s about to be decided by the Supreme Court.
Not unlike the challenge to Obamacare it is referencing, the tweet is deeply stupid.
Six million people risk losing their health care subsidies, yet @POTUS continues to deny that Obamacare is bad for the American people.
Six million people risk losing their health care subsidies. The health care subsidies those 6 million people could lose are a part of the Affordable Care Act. Conservative enemies of Obamacare are the only reason those subsidies are at risk.
Words! Meaning! John Thune likes putting the former in combinations that are completely devoid of the latter.
Senator John Thune
I would so have loved to have written that headline.
