There Are Good Democrats In Kentucky, Folks

And as much as I give Governor Dinosaur Steve a hard time over the Ark Park and wished Jack Conway had any sort of campaign presence to beat Rand Paul (and don't get me started on Dan Mongiardo) at least one Bluegrass Dem is willing to stand up to the Old Age Mutant Nimrod Turtle: Louisville area Congressman John Yarmuth.

Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) is pushing back against the GOP’s efforts to distort the Affordable Care Act and has written a four-page letter calling out Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for including “inaccuracies” in a recent editorial condemning the law. “As members of Congress, I believe we have an obligation to give our constituents the full facts about the law,” Yarmuth wrote, before fact-checking McConnell for falsely claiming that the the law would increase the deficit, prevent small businesses from hiring, and increase health care spending. The Congressman also challenged McConnell to debate the measure earlier this month.

And Yarmuth really rips into Mitch, too.  No word on McConnell taking Yarmuth up on that debate offer either, which he won't do, of course.

Still, we continue to hear -- from you and other Republican leaders -- false messages that the law will hurt small businesses.  In perpetuating such myths, you are placing millions of small businesses as a competitive disadvantage by withholding and distorting the facts about provisions of the law that directly and substantially benefit them.

And in Congress, that's the equivalent of calling Mitch a lying two-faced sumbitch.  Which he is.  The rest of the letter is a pretty brutal fisking of McConnell's editorial in the Courier-Journal.  Yarmuth continues to be one of the good guys in Kentucky.