Oops !!! Oh well, let's go with Benghazi, then.

 Last week the Republican-controlled House Committee on Energy and Commerce conducted a hearing on what they were touting as a failure of Obamacare, namely their claim that, of the 8 million touted as Affordable Care Act registrants, only 67% had actually paid their premiums.    

So, eager to find anything to tear down the increasingly successful program, they thought they were going to expose the false claims.    Officials from major insurance companies were called to testify about the low rate of actual purchasing of policies -- Republicans expecting that they would expose the Obama administration for making misleading, if not outright false, claims.

Spoiler Alert !!!    It was the Republicans who wound up shrinking away and hoping the news didn't get out.

Instead of exposing the Democrats, it was the Republican Committee that had goofed.  They had previously asked insurers for a report on how many had paid their premiums by April 15th.   And then they put out a press release saying only 67% had actually paid -- Big Scandal . . . oooh, bad, bad Obamacare.

The problem with this is that, on many of these policies, payment was not due until after April 15th.    So by the time of the hearings, on May 7th, the number who paid was now 83% for one company and 90% for another, as the executives so testified in the hearing.

As Rick Perry would say:   "Oops!"

Don't these people have staff to check on things like that?   When you have politicians who don't want to know facts, but only want to score points against opponents, they would rather not know.   In fact, two of the insurance executives have said that they warned the committee that these were not final figures.

It's really pathetic to watch this debacle unfold.  Republican's sold people on the idea that "Obamacare" is evil -- but failed to convince them that the benefits of the actual plan are bad.  Republicans are now reaping the harvest of false, manipulative advertising.   

Not to worry.   They have another plan for winning the election.   It's called:    Benghazi !!!!

Ralph