Fox News’ Kilmeade slams GOP for shutdown: ’8 million more people voted for’ Obamacare

[Playinghardball]

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade may be the last person anyone expected to make the case for President Barack Obama’s health care reform law — but that’s exactly what he did on Tuesday.

Just hours after a stalemate in Congress forced a partial government shutdown, Fox & Friends host Elisabeth Hasselbeck praised Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and tea party Republicans because she said “it is worth the fight” to defund or delay Obamacare.

“All you have to do is look at the polls,” co-host Steve Doocy agreed. “While it is law of the land, it is wildly unpopular in this country. So a lot of people go, ‘You know what? The tea party wing of the Republican Party, they’re holding the rest of the Congress hostage.’ You know what? Those people, many of them were elected to — they campaigned on, ‘If you send me to Washington, I will do everything I can to defund or delay it.’”

Kilmeade then stunned his co-hosts by speaking up in defense of the law.

“You say it’s unpopular and over 50 percent of the country doesn’t seem to want it, but 8 million more people voted for it because Mitt Romney would have been president,” Kilmeade

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/01/fox-news-kilmeade-slams-gop-for-shutdown-8-million-more-people-voted-for-obamacare/

[Kber]

1. Kilmeade is giving some GOP cover

for, you know, doing their fucking jobs.

But that doesn't mean he doesn't have a point.

[factsarenotfair]

2. Wow! Maybe the SNL parodies have gotten to him.

But Elizabeth is unbelievably whorish.

[progressoid]

3. Wait,

...if Romneycare and Obamacare are similar, then perhaps the election was about more than healthcare?

[FSogol]

4. He's snapping under the stress of defending the GOP.