Having said that, the Republican's are COWARDS and won't vote to repeal Obamacare. For seven years they had the "safety" of voting to repeal it knowing that Obama would never sign it.
It's easy to be brave when there's no one to call your bluff.
Now that we have a President who'll actually sign the repeal, the Republican's are showing what they truly are: COWARDS. They've always been COWARDS and unless every single one of them is primaried in 2018, they will always be COWARDS.
So again, I'm going on record to say there's NO WAY the Republicans will repeal Obamacare.
The dumb bastards should've been smart enough to let it die on the vine and let that albatross hang around the Democrats necks. It would've been the complete undoing of the Democrat party.
But no, they're too STUPID to have done that.
That makes them not just COWARDS but STUPID COWARDS.
If the Senate GOP won’t vote to even proceed to debate today, they might as well hand the keys to Schumer now and not wait until 2018.
Obamacare won’t be repealed, because it can’t be repealed - or, more exactly, it can’t be repealed without ushering in huge Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate.
Members of Congress don’t know much, but they can count votes like a pimp in a whorehouse can count money.
Yes, the voters “hate Obamacare and want it repealed”. That is absolutely true.
It’s also true that they want the ability to buy insurance for pre-existing conditions, want insurance companies to be forbidden to cancel policies for non-payment, want zero payment at the point of service, want their adult children who are smoking dope in a dive in Oakland to stay covered, want their States to expand Medicaid without taxes going up, and so on.
In other words, the only two things they hate about Obamacare are paying for it, and the name.
Republicans in Congress understand this perfectly well, which is why there’s no plan.
And, not coincidentally, Obamacare (and Romneycare) were the culmination of fifty years of “reform”, all of which had the purpose of destroying the private sector or making it impossible for the private sector to function, except for boob jobs and a few other things. And, by 2009, the mission was largely accomplished.
Obamacare was merely a temporary mop-up operation, until full nationalization was possible.
And now, it is.
Like Nixon to China, Trump will propose single payer within the year. It’s really the only way out at this point.
And before you accuse me of favoring it, realize that it will destroy a lifetime of work for me. I don’t like it - I hate it.
But it’s coming, because it’s what the voters, bless their pointy little heads, want.