7 Stories That Were Really Bad For Democrats This Week

House Democrats had another rough week. Between polls showing their political platform dead in the water, a credit downgrade of America’s health insurers brought by ObamaCare, a report that hardly any uninsured Americans are actually enrolling in ObamaCare, and a story of one House Democrat admitting that the push for minimum wage is meant to score political points, these 7 stories this week highlight just how bad of a week the White House and Congressional Democrats had.

1. Everything In This New Poll Is Bad News for Obama and House Democrats. Everything.

House Democrats hoping that their fortunes might start to heat up in 2014 might want to take a look at the latest Quinnipiac poll. In fact, there isn’t a single piece of good news in here for Democrats hoping to avoid a disastrous 2014 election.

2. Moody’s Just Downgraded America’s Health Insurers’ Credit Rating and Says ObamaCare & The White House Are To Blame

Moody’s downgraded the credit rating of America’s health insurers on Thursday from “stable” to “negative” this morning. Citing “an unstable and evolving regulatory environment” thanks to ObamaCare, Moody’s noted that “new regulations and presidential announcements over the last several months with respect to the ACA have imposed operational challenges well after product and pricing decisions had been finalized.”

Translation: ObamaCare, and the White House’s numerous delays of the law’s mandates and rules, have created mass confusion.

3. This House Democrat Just Admitted That Obama Is Pushing for Minimum Wage to Score Political Points

We’ve long suspected that President Obama and House Democrats’ sudden interest in increasing the minimum wage was their attempt to distract Americans from ObamaCare’s disastrous roll-out and the stagnant economy. One House Democrat finally just admitted it.

4. This Congresswoman’s Husband Was Chosen To Head Up The ObamaCare Website, & Now She’s Protecting Him From It

While many Democrats across the country are trying to distance themselves from the health care debate, saving ObamaCare has become a family affair for the DelBene’s. One month ago it was announced that Kurt DelBene, husband of Congresswoman Suzan DelBene, would be taking the reins to oversee the disastrous ObamaCare website. Since his takeover, Congresswoman DelBene has done her part to make sure her husband is protected from future mistakes and scrutiny of the law and his leadership.

5. A New Report Finds Only 11% of ObamaCare Enrollees Were Uninsured, and Democrats Are Nervous

Congressional Democrats maintain that, despite the problems plaguing HealthCare.gov, the cancelled health policies, the lost access, and the higher premiums, ObamaCare is still a justified law because it expands health coverage to the uninsured.

But according to a new report, possibly as few as just 11% of those who enrolled in ObamaCare health plans were previously uninsured, meaning that the vast majority of sign ups into the President’s health care law already had health insurance.

6. WKBN-TV: Hundreds Of Ohioans Can’t Keep Their Doctor Thanks To ObamaCare

7. Either This Democrat Candidate Is Lying, Or Someone Is Running Around Northern Michigan Pretending To Be Him

File this into the drawer for the weirdest stories of 2014.

Jerry Cannon, the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee’s endorsed candidate for Michigan’s 1st Congressional District, recently said that ObamaCare has been a disaster for him, and that he would like to repeal the law and start over.

This didn’t jibe with Washington Democrats platform that they are going to run on ObamaCare in 2014 though, so Cannon quickly backtracked – by insisting that the reporter in question wasn’t actually talking to the real Jerry Cannon!