Cuccinelli aims blast at Affordable Care Act in GOP’s weekly address

By Fredrick Kunkle, Saturday, October 19, 6:01 AM

Just days after a federal government shutdown triggered by a fight over President Obama’s signature health care law, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II is delivering the weekly Republican address with a full-throated blast at the Affordable Care Act.

Cuccinelli attacks Obamacare as the exemplar of big government and calls its implentation “a national embarrassment.”

“Let me be plain, the law that carries the President’s name is the hallmark of a reckless federal government that has lost its way,” Cuccinelli says in Saturday’s address.

Cuccinelli — who trails Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia governor’s race with about two weeks to go before Election Day — goes all in with the sort of talk that made him a hero to tea party enthusiasts and other believers in limited goverment. He boasts that he was the first of 27 state attorneys general to challenge the law’s constitutionality. He goes on to catalog what he says is a gap between Obamacare’s sunny promises and the glitchy rollout that began Oct. 1 with the opening of the online government insurance markets. And he blames the law for suffocating the economy and transforming the promise of prosperity into mostly part-time jobs.

“Everywhere you look, there’s more evidence that ObamaCare was fundamentally broken even before it started,” Cuccinelli says.

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