Nah, man. There is no difference between having some text still on the books and creating it to put it on the books.
If the Dems in the future get 60 votes, they’ll just repaste the text. There’s no difference between gutting it and repealing it. It both cases it can be reactivated.
You do what you have the seats to do. Choosing to do nothing because you can’t get all you want is not going to buy you any immunity from being blamed for doing nothing.
Nothing is nothing. Something is something. We have the seats to do something.
Once a bill is passed and signed into law, it becomes a law. It can only become a non-law by repealing it.
Ryan is not repealing it, he’s wanting to make it ineffective by reconciliation measures which are temporary until the democrats take over in the future. And they will because the republicans are stupid. They really are stupid. A few of them are quite brilliant but as a body, they are stupid meaning they never learn enough to turn the nation back to its founding principles. So it’s a given that the criminal part of Congress will take power again at a future date.
The key difference between repeal (President wants) and reconciliation (Ryan offers) is that WHEN the democrats control Congress in the future, and they will, a repeal of Obamacare will force them to once again look at the hurdle of 60 votes in the Senate unless Stupid Cruz gives them a precedent for blowing up the Senate rules to get what they want.
A full repeal is needed, not a weak offering by the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile driver. Yeah, Ryan’s only ever private sector job was a driver for the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile. He is in effect, the Pee Wee Herman of politics, weak, stupid, and unwilling to play hardball for the American republic.