That’s not stupidity, that’s complicity.
Yes, a good part of it is complicity. But even the complicit weasels will move back out of the way of a hardball game between the Attorney General and the Senate Democrats.
The democrats are right now laughing and smirking watch the republicans shoot each other. They know the republicans will jump up and down, set the ACA on fire, gut this, defend that, take a mandate here, etc. But as long as the law is left in place, they will just sit back and wait.
What they really fear, what would wipe the smirks off their faces is a repeal of the ACA. That would be a more permanent setback for them.
The bottom line is that Congress does not hold the cards, they don’t have the winning hand. President Trump has the winning hand. He needs to play it.