Video: John Yarmuth’s Greatest Hits!

Hot Air readers will get the first look at the new campaign ad for Todd Lally in Kentucky’s 3rd CD bid to unseat John Yarmuth, who has had a few gaffes over the four years he has represented this D+2 district. Lally effectively uses them in a lighthearted vein in a TV spot that may tickle some funny bones until voters think a little about the quotes and their implications. For instance, Yarmuth admitted that no one thought ObamaCare would cut costs, despite the early rhetoric surrounding the bill, which later changed to “bending the cost curve downward” (and still didn’t succeed). They may also chuckle at Yarmuth’s declaration that “a balanced federal budget is impossible,” knowing that certainly to be true under current management — and perhaps also noting that this Congress hasn’t even bothered to produce a budget, let alone balance one.

But the best probably comes in the beginning, and is emblematic of the Democratic Congress and the Barack Obama White House when Yarmuth asks, “How are we going to pay for all this [the Democratic agenda]?” and answers himself: “I don’t know.”  Neither do we, and so maybe we shouldn’t implement it.

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