This baby is 100% a democrat catastrophe. The only possible solution is to scrap it and that's the ONLY acceptable Republican position. I hope the Tea Party is prepared to wage a holy war on any GOPer who does anything to help the rats out of this mess!
What’s that old adage, You can’t polish a Turd?
From a purely mercenary view into politics, the right “play” is to let Obamacare crash and burn while keeping their hands clean, standing by and saying “I told you so”.
Problem is, real people are getting really hurt by this, and mostly as innocent bystanders. The self-employed, who are being hit hardest, are probably more likely to vote Republican than the average population, so it’s not a matter of punishing people who brought this upon themselves.
So, how does one balance the two? How can you, as a minority party, help provide relief to those who are being harmed by this policy without indirectly propping up that bad policy? And if you don’t do anything at all, do you take a hit for letting people founder?
It’s not an easy set of decisions to make. There’s going to have to be some tradeoff of practical vs. political, and there will be critics deriding any choice.
Because Obamacare is broken beyond repair. (Hey, not a bad slogan for something.) And since the Democrats broke it, then let them try to fix it. I don’t think they can. So they own it. They own it big time.
First of all, if Obamacare were working, Democrats and so called moderates wouldn’t be asking the Republicans to help with it. The whining opens the door for blaming Republicans in the future, when unaffordable healthcare by any name is still unaffordable, and people can’t cooperate with the law. After all, many of them thought they were going to get something for free, or more for less. I even encountered a few people here at FR who thought they would benefit from Obamacare because it would be more affordable. I wonder what those people think now. We are calling it sticker shock, but the increases in premiums and higher deductibles are more than shock. They are deal killers. People can’t afford to fund Obamacare’s mandates.
Even though many on the left are beginning to agree with Republicans that Obamacare needs to be buried in a deep hole, they are loath to give up on their fascist accomplishment, because it has been a political victory for them.
Ever try to put shoe polish on a turd?
The republicans are trying to fix ObamaCare in the only way it can be fixed. If an arsonist is setting your home on fire, you don’t want someone to assist with accelerants that will start a slower, cooler fire less likely to kill as it destroys the home. You want someone to stop the arson.