MSNBC to GOP: Aren’t You ‘Grasping at Straws’ With Court Challenges to ObamaCare?

JANSING: “Well, the Supreme Court has ruled on the ACA. It is the law of the land. Most legal experts say these cases are a long shot at best. Are Republicans grasping at straws here?”
LANKFORD: “They’re actually not grasping at straws. It's interesting. You talk about that particular part of the Affordable Care Act has been ruled constitutional. There are multiple other arguments that are still going through, including this one dealing with what's called 1311 of the actual Affordable Care Act. The way that it's written is that it says if you have a state subsidy, if you have a state exchange, then you have all these penalties and all these taxes, and all these things that go with it. If you have a federal, then none of those things are actually included. Well, they didn't anticipate that 30-plus states, 34, 36, depending on how you count all of them, actually are going to do federal exchanges. So the problem is, the law doesn't work the way it's written, and so they just interpreted it to say, 'Well, we assume the law meant to say something else.’”