Posted on 01/14/2014 11:23:46 AM PST by bestintxas
The news that the demographic mix of Obamacare enrollees is not yet where the law’s proponents had hoped appears to have only reinforced the certainty in some quarters that the law’s epic collapse is underway. This, even though there are still two and a half months to go in the open enrollment period, and there are good reasons not to reach any broad conclusions just yet about the law’s long-term prospects.
However, in one sense it’s a positive for there to be as much certainty as possible among Republicans about the law’s inevitable doom.
Politico reports this morning that leading Republicans are leaning heavily against using the next debt limit fight to try to undermine the health law, having taken a beating in the last debt ceiling showdown. One of the reasons they are offering is that the law is imploding on its own:
Louisiana Rep. John Fleming, one of the most conservative House Republicans and a champion of the fall defund movement, said “Obamacare is cratering itself” and acknowledged that there’s no way to change the health care law without cooperation with the White House.
“I think our [debt ceiling] debate is going to be over more cutting” the budget, Fleming said. [...]
“I think I would be satisfied if we could deal some with the debt,” Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the second-ranking Senate Republican, said when asked whether the GOP should link Obamacare to the debt-limit debate. “I think the health care law is going to implode on its own.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Just see my tag line.
There is not ONE SINGLE REPUBLICAN in the upcoming GEORGIA Slate of candidates that I am going to vote for.
My congressman, Collins, voted for this latest budget bill with John Lewis and Hank Johnson.
My Senator, Chambliss the RINO Traitor, is retiring - no one the RNC or GOP Republican party puts up to replace him I will vote for, nor anyone he endorses. Not one more good ole boy for me.
I’ll see the party burn to the ground before I vote for another RINO.
I'm with you.
No such thing as Obamacare “derangement”; the law is unconstitutional, unwise, and unworkable. It sucks, and no one with a brain likes it.
We will NEVER give up, libs. NEVER.
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