Unless, of course, you go the full Machiavelli and throw it all back on the Democrats. How? Republicans could forget about meeting the arcane requirements of “reconciliation” legislation (which requires only 51 votes in the Senate) and send the Senate a replacement bill loaded up with everything conservative — including tort reform and insurance competition across state lines. That would require 60 Senate votes. Let the Democrats filibuster it to death — and take the blame when repeal-and-replace fails and Obamacare carries on and then collapses under its own weight.
Upside: You reap the backlash. Downside: You have to live with your conscience.
This is where Kraut gets it. This is what I belive Trump is doing here. Surely he's not dumb enough to think he can expect RINOCare will pass. There are not enough Repub votes. And that is a good thing.
So let the version 1, 2, 3 ...... 15, 16 whatever fail. And let ObamaCare implode and fail was well.
And as far as living with my conscience? Yeppers. I'll sleep like a baby.
The GOP wasn’t elected to do nothing.
“Obamacare carries on and then collapses under its own weight.”
This is nonsense. There will be no collapse. The government will just borrow and spend more, costs will keep rising and life expectancy will keep going down, as it did last year.