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Oh, the gaslighting from this crowd just hit a new level.NYT opinion editor Steven Rattner posted on X that Trump's "cuts to Obamacare subsidies hit middle class and elderly workers the hardest," claiming a 60-year-old making $65,000 a year now stands to pay $920 more per month.Then Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) jumped in to amplify it with this little tantrum:"This was all preventable if Republicans had voted with us to extend the ACA tax credits. Instead, $1 billion per day for an aimless war, and another $1 billion for a White House ballroom. A contrast as clear as day: Republicans fight for Trump's whims; Democrats fight to lower your health care costs."Cute. Let's check the receipts.The Affordable Care Act passed the Senate 60-39 on Christmas Eve 2009 with zero Republican votes. It passed the House 219-212 in March 2010 with all 178 Republicans voting against it. Not one Republican.The enhanced subsidies Schumer is now demanding Republicans rescue? Those came from the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, passed 51-50 in the Senate on Kamala Harris's tie-breaking vote with all 50 Republicans voting no, then the House 220-207 with zero Republican support. Democrats themselves wrote in the sunset clause that is now expiring. They set the timer, and now they want to blame the bomb squad.Every single step of this Obamacare debacle, the original bill, the subsidies, the extension, was rammed through on pure party-line votes. Democrats wrote it, Democrats passed it, Democrats own it.The war and ballroom lines are pure deflection. Strikes on Iran's nuclear program are not an "aimless war," and the White House ballroom construction is being funded by private donors, not taxpayers. The conversation is supposed to be about Obamacare, the program Democrats designed, passed alone, and now cannot keep alive without endless taxpayer rescue.Rather than killing this monstrosity and replacing it with something that actually respects taxpayers, Democrats shut the federal government down for the longest stretch in American history trying to extend the subsidies, and now they want to make it universal coverage. What could possibly go wrong with that?This is not policy. It is a midterm play, and a depraved one.James Madison warned in Federalist No. 62 about laws "so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood." That is Obamacare in one sentence. Fifteen years later we are still finding out what is in it, and the bill keeps growing.Source: X