Why Is Obama Spoonfeeding Mitch McConnell on This Week’s New Yorker Cover?

The Obama administration isn’t taking “a victory lap” over the Affordable Care Act’s 7 million enrollee milestone, so the New Yorker has decided to take one for them.

This week’s cover shows a triumphant President Barack Obama spoonfeeding medicine to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY):

Why McConnell? Maybe because the vulnerable McConnell is stuck between a far-right primary challenger and a competitive general election Democrat in Alison Lundergran Grimes. Or because Kentucky, one of the few red states to build a state-based insurance exchange, is an Obamacare success story, with 75% of those enrolling in the exchange previously uninsured. Just this morning, McConnell earned four Pinocchios for his “stale, inflated claim” about Obamacare’s performance in his state.

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