Jeff Hurd’s Obamacare Vote: Spin, Cowardice, and Consequences

This is how Congressman Jeff Hurd’s campaign is trying to explain away his vote to continue Obamacare subsidies:

“This is a chess move — playing the long game. If all subsidies are pulled at once, Colorado’s medical system would collapse and rural hospitals across the district would close. There has been enough communication with Republican Senators to know the bill will not pass as written. It will be changed and sent back with oversight provisions to address fraud and abuse, along with a shorter extension to buy time to create a new plan — preventing the system from collapsing for those who truly need assistance. The system is broken, but this push-and-pull is a necessary evil our representatives must engage in.”

That is the justification being offered for voting with Democrats to extend Obamacare subsidies.

It’s absolute garbage — and I’m done pretending it’s anything else.

Calling this a “chess move” is a slap in the face to every family being crushed by Obamacare premiums, every small business drowning under rising costs, and every rural hospital forced to beg Washington for scraps. This isn’t strategy. It’s cowardice wrapped in consultant-speak.

“Don’t worry, the Senate won’t pass it” is not leadership. It’s how Washington excuses bad votes, bad policy, and selling out to Big Insurance. If a bill is wrong, you vote NO. Period.

This vote means:

• More government control
• More regulation
• More taxpayer money funneled straight to massive insurance corporations
• More fraud, abuse, and zero accountability

And let’s stop lying to people — this funding WILL support abortion coverage and transgender medical procedures for minors. Anyone claiming otherwise is either uninformed or deliberately misleading voters.

What makes this even more infuriating is watching staffers run damage control instead of telling the truth: Jeff Hurd voted to expand the very system Republicans have promised for 15 years to repeal. If his record were conservative, it wouldn’t require nonstop spin.

Rural Colorado does not need Washington games. We do not need “necessary evils.” We do not need representatives who vote like Democrats and then ask us to trust the process.

We need fighters — not lobbyist lapdogs.
Leaders — not excuse-makers.

And if Jeff Hurd needs his staff to explain his votes every time he sides with Democrats, that tells you everything you need to know.

Enough!