If Congress won’t read all 906 pages of the Obamacare bill, maybe the Twitterverse will, 140 characters at a time.
That’s actor Jake McClain’s theory anyway.
McClain has taken on the lofty task of tweeting the entire healthcare document to shed light on the negative impact Obamacare — formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — will have on the country once it’s fully instituted.
Folks…this will probably take a long time to do, but I decided I will read every page, word by word, of Obamacare, and tweet every word
— Jake McClain (@jakemcclain) March 22, 2013
“Very few people in our community read our bills,” he said on Mike Huckabee’s radio show Tuesday. “Obamacare … is the craziest thing that we’ve ever seen in our lives.”
And he would know. As of Wednesday morning, he’d already slogged through 28 pages of the bill since Friday. He projects it will only take him until mid-October to finish his Twitter masterpiece — just in time for Halloween, as Huckabee pointed out.
“Trick or tweet!” the radio host and former Arkansas Governor joked.
“You can’t get scarier than Obamacare,” McClain responded.
The actor told Huckabee his strategy is to tweet two or three pages at a time and then take a break, giving people time to absorb the material.
“Well, Congress has spent three years, and they haven’t absorbed it yet either,” Huckabee added.
Before Congress passed the bill three years ago, Pelosi made headlines when she argued Congress should just pass the legislation so they could find out what’s actually in it — something McClain pointed out in his interview, taking a shot at the House Minority Leader.
So far, McClain says the response has been “overwhelming.” The relatively unknown actor admitted that his number of Twitter followers has jumped dramatically since he started his project.
McClain hopes his tweets will encourage others to become more proactive and tell their members of Congress to address Obamacare.
@guthriebrent And if we keep reading and tweeting these pages, we can get enough people to hit their senators up on this thing.
— Jake McClain (@jakemcclain) March 26, 2013
He confidently told Huckabee, “I do want to end Obamacare.”