Marathon Pundit: McConnell blasts ObamaCare brochure as government ‘propaganda’

The Democrats show no restraint in their zeal to promote its unpopular ObamaCare scheme.

From Roll Call:

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell blasted the Obama administration Tuesday over a color brochure promoting the benefits of the new health care law that is being mailed to Medicare recipients.

The Kentucky Republican held up a copy of the four-page pamphlet from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services while delivering his morning floor remarks. He referred to the mailer as "nothing short of government propaganda paid for by the taxpayer.' McConnell charged the administration with hypocrisy given that it previously ordered private insurance companies to refrain from sending policyholders information that prompted skepticism of the new health care law.

"Just yesterday, I came across a recent flier from the Department Health and Human Services that does the very thing the administration didn't want private companies to do," McConnell said, just two hours before President Barack Obama was scheduled to join Senate Republicans for lunch. "So this is a complete outrage, and it's precisely the kind of thing Americans are so angry about at the moment."

Republican sources said McConnell planned to ask Don Berwick, Obama's nominee to serve as CMS administrator, about the CMS brochure when the two meet Tuesday on Capitol Hill. The meeting had already been scheduled as a part of the confirmation process.