You’re ignoring an effect that is very, very real, in my experience:
If you are carpenter #2 and are called in by a client to fix another carpenter’s screw-up...and you do not execute *perfectly*....you will be branded with *all* of the screwups of carp #1 AND whatever you managed to either screw up or not be able to do. And/or, if you are a carpenter, same scenario, and large amounts of materials have been destroyed or rendered unusable by the actions of carp #1, you will have to not only spend time undoing the errors of carp #1 (which is time charged that does not go to the completion of the task) *and* being responsible for the excess costs of replacing the rendered-unusable materials.
It is virtually an unwinnable situation and many times you will see professionals turn down such work.
The Dems cannot see the future, that’s why they passed this POS. The Republicans cannot see the future but they additionally cannot and will not listen to anyone but their consultant class, who are parasites (like Rove) who have no particular insight *except* their insight into how panicked the Repubs can and will get should they perceive themselves vulnerable.
I go back to the illustration I stole from someone: The Harlem Globetrotters vs. The Washington Generals. The Globetrotters needed the Generals, to lose, so they (the G’s) could do their show. The Republicans just want to lose, so that they get to suck at the trough as the #2 team. This effort will continue that.
What Republicans should do now is to insist that 0care cover illegal aliens.
That makes me laugh but I proposed a related idea for amnesty, which seems to be dead fortunately.
The Senate amnesty bill exempts illegals from Obamacare but that would give employers a effective tax cut to hire them over us.
To be consistent with Rubios promises the amnesty bill should have required that illegals who apply meet all the Obamacare mandates without any government $$$ to help pay for it.
That would have killed the amnesty bill because few or none could comply.
I actually had a few here who argued for the constitutional rights of illegals against the idea.
I am of the opinion that the GOP could propose bills that are popular and look compassionate but weaken Obamacare, the Obamacare that only Dems will own.
only because of this situation Dems got themselves in.
Like when Dems pass minimum wage increase, very few blame them for the associated unemployment. But they score points for compassion for it.
Fight like Dems do, to win.