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Marco Rubio<\/a> recently made an interesting analogy after the release of the CBO report.\u00c2\u00a0 He said that the likelihood of the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) actually helping people is as great as the likelihood of the Denver Broncos coming back from their fourth-quarter deficit in the SuperBowl.<\/p>\n I know that there are still some who hold out hope that Obamacare will work, just like there were some in Denver this Sunday still holding out hope that the Broncos could come back and win in the fourth quarter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Now, there is some debate<\/a> on the matter, but let’s give Rubio the point for the sake of argument.\u00c2\u00a0 However, if we do, then Aaron Goldstein has a critical point to make:<\/p>\n But let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not forget that the Broncos actually made it to the Super Bowl. <\/em>The Broncos were the second best team in the NFL in 2013….<\/p>\n If Rubio is going to compare Obamacare to a football team he should invoke the 2008 Detroit Lions who went 0-16. Better still, the junior Senator from Florida could also speak of the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers who went 0-14. This would be a far more apt comparison because when it comes to Obamacare no one wins.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Ah, a lesson in how to turn an analogy into a straw man.\u00c2\u00a0 At least the Rubio analogy conceded that the ACA had something going for it (at least the Broncos had a chance to make points back earlier), but Goldstein refuses even that.\u00c2\u00a0 Beyond this, the point Rubio was trying to make with the analogy was one of prospects<\/em>, like for the future, not retrospects, <\/em>looking at the past.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh well, when the objective is to paint your political opponents in the worst lights, saving the actual point is beside the point.<\/p>\n Marco Rubio recently made an interesting analogy after the release of the CBO report.\u00c2\u00a0 He said that the likelihood of the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) actually helping people is as great as the likelihood of the Denver Broncos coming back from their fourth-quarter deficit in the SuperBowl. I know that there are still some who … Continue reading How to turn your analogy to straw<\/span> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"