Democrats cry foul when Republicans use their favorite tactic against them
By Noemie Emery
FEBRUARY 25, 2014 AT 5:50 PM
Irked at the gall of Republicans in using the Democrats' votes for health care against them, liberals have discovered a plot that is even more sinister: the GOP is using "anecdotes" (i.e., the stories of people who have been hurt by the measure) in an effort to take the Left down.
By "anecdotes" they mean stories like the those of Edie Littlefield Sundby, the stage-four cancer patient who can't keep her old team of physicians; the parents who can't take children to the hospitals at which they were formerly treated; the people having trouble paying their premiums; or the story related in the Wall Street Journal on Monday by Stephen Blackwood, whose mother, also suffering from a rare form of cancer, can no longer get access to the medicines that have kept her alive.
This isn't quite what the Left had expected. Last year, Obamacare-a-war-on-bros.html">Jonathan Chait mocked the frustrated quest of the Right for Obamacare victims, as the only ones likely were selfish rich people, and "neither the medical specialist nor the hospital executive nor the upper-income taxpayer quite offer the politically sympathetic face of the Everyman struggling under Obama's socialist boot."
This was in June. Since October, conservatives have been overrun with sympathetic and lovable Everymen of every description, leaving liberals and their flacks in a war to contain them, culminating in the assault on a leukemia patient in Michigan, where Democratic Senate candidate ...
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Democrats don't always hate anecdotes -- they love them when used by Obama and Hillary Clinton -- but when used against them, they become the worst thing since the last time the truth was told about their egregious misjudgments. And so they are now in a war on women (with cancer), which no doubt will serve them quite well in the fall.	
Noemie Emery, a Washington Examiner columnist, is a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard and author of "Great Expectations: The Troubled Lives of Political Families."
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