Hey remember that sob story about "Bette" having to pay $700 more for premiums thanks to Obamacare that was told during the official GOP response to the President's SOTU speech? Yeah that was bullshit.

"Wait, I'm getting fact checked? Nobody said anything about fact checking."

Courtesy of the LA Times:  

The centerpiece of the Republican party's attack on the Affordable Care Act following President Obama's State of the Union address this week was the story of "Bette." 

Bette was an otherwise unidentified Washington state resident featured in the official GOP response to the Obama speech delivered by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.). According to Rodgers, 

Bette had written her a letter stating that she had "hoped the president’s healthcare law would save her money – but found out instead that her premiums were going up nearly $700 a month." The lesson, according to Rodgers: "This law is not working." Bette has now been tracked down by her hometown Spokane Spokesman-Review. She's Bette Grenier, who owns a small business with her husband. Unsurprisingly, her story is much different from the sketchy description provided by Rodgers. That description perplexed experts, including Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler, who couldn't understand how a state resident "would have no choice but to pay $700 per month more for a policy that meets the Affordable Care Act’s coverage requirements," the newspaper reported. 

Grenier told the newspaper that she wrote Rodgers after her insurance company informed her that her $552-a-month catastrophic health plan would not be offered in 2014. It offered her an alternative plan complying with the ACA at $1,052 a month. 

But that sounds like her insurer trying to steer her to an overpriced option. A compliant plan meeting the Affordable Care Act's coverage mandates actually is available from Washington's insurance exchange for much less -- and with a deductible far lower than the $10,000 she was paying under the old plan and broader coverage, though lacking a provision for four free doctor visits a year provided by her old plan. 

Grenier said she had flatly refused to even investigate her options on the exchange. "I wouldn’t go on that Obama website at all,” she said. “We liked our old plan. It worked for us, but they can’t offer it anymore.” 

Instead, she and her husband "have decided to go without coverage," the newspaper reported. 

"We wouldn't go on that Obama website."

We "have decided to go without coverage."

Yeah THAT'LL teach Obama!

You know the Republican strategy for 2014 seems to be to make a bunch of commercials featuring people who are upset at the horrible things that Obamacare has done to their health insurance.

However if THIS is the best they can do, and remember this was featured in the OFFICIAL Republican response, then it should prove quite easy for the Democrats to smack each one down in turn.

Essentially the Republican's position seems to be, "We hate Obamacare because Obama passed it, we like our OLD health care though we never really understood it, and we cannot work a computer. Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi!"