Harry Reid walks back claim that ObamaCare woes are bogus

If you don’t know what the term “walking it back” means, Harry Reid’s Twitter feed is a textbook case.

He took to the Senate floor Wednesday morning saying that Republicans lie, and then tweeted a YouTube video of his remarks along with this caption:

“While Republicans use tall tales to attack Obamacare, Democrats have real stories of people who are saving on their premiums thanks to the law. We don’t have to make things up.”

The Senate majority leader took a drubbing online from Republican lawmakers who called him out on his claims about ads funded by Americans for Prosperity, a conservative group backed by billionaire industry barons David and Charles Koch. Reid says AFP told false stories about canceled policies due to ObamaCare, and used actors to tell the stories. Oh, and he called the Koch brothers “un-American.”

“It's time that the American people spoke out against this terrible dishonesty of these two brothers, who are about as un-American as anyone that I can imagine," Reid said.

The criticism must have hit a nerve. Hours later Reid walked it back with a new tweet linking to Mark Mellman’s Hill editorial calling the ads “shameful.” So much for that blanket statement about all stories being lies.

According to plenty of pundits, Dems are increasingly worried about losing the Senate due to political fallout over ObamaCare. Sens. Murphy, Schumer and others launched a new strategy asking for, what else, real stories of Americans helped by ObamaCare.

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Unless you’re beloved Barney the peppy, popular TV dinosaur, it is probably not a good idea to wear a purple bowtie and Polo shirt – at the same time -- on the House floor. At least that’s what Twitter has to say about Rep. Jared Polis and his sartorial selection.

Maybe he thought it was Mardi Gras? Get that man a King Cake.