Cuccinelli says Obamacare is 'deeply flawed' and a 'national embarrassment.' Cuccinelli: ACA an 'embarrassment'

Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli, tapped to deliver the weekly Republican address on Saturday, denounced Obamacare as “deeply flawed” and a “national embarrassment.”

The attorney general was the first to challenge the Affordable Care Act in federal court, and he maintains that the law remains unconstitutional in his commentary.


Cuccinelli’s campaign has been hurt by the prolonged government shutdown, and less than three weeks before the off-year election he is eager to help the national party turn its attention back to the still-unpopular health law and its rocky roll out.

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“President Obama’s ideas are deeply flawed and the implementation of this law has been a national embarrassment,” said Cuccinelli. “Let me be plain, the law that carries the president’s name is the hallmark of a reckless federal bureaucracy that has lost its way.”

Cuccinelli said that the University of Virginia, his alma mater, just announced that it will no longer be able to provide health care coverage to many spouses of their employees and the Fairfax County Water Authority is dropping some coverage because of the law’s taxes.

“If the politicians who gave us this train wreck expect us to live by this law, then the same law without special exemptions should apply to Congress,” he said. “Is that really too much to ask?”

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Cuccinelli, who has struggled with fundraising and is getting crushed in the air war, had only $1 million in cash to spend at the start of this month. The weekly radio address is widely picked up by radio stations around the country.