You’re missing the point. Why was Obamacare 2.0 offered up in the first place?
WTF was the republican party doing for 6 years? Ryan and the fvcking ‘freedom caucus’?...Why weren’t they on the same page?
Cuz it’s a pathetic kabuki party playing games with the lives of the American people.
Huh? You have been on FR since 2008, and have not yet figured out that a large portion of the Republican Party elite is GOP-e(e!), is beholden to the same lobbyists and special interests as most of the Dems, and at best wants a sort of ObamaCare Lite, or, as you called it, ObamaCare 2.0?
It was easy for the GOP-e to vote against ObamaCare up until now, because they knew it was for show, and Obama could veto their bill, if it even made it through the Senate. Otherwise the House Pubs would have, as ‘ol Hannity put it, “used the power of the purse.” They never did, even tho’ a number of Freedom Caucus members supported just that. The “FC” just doesn’t have the numbers to do much more than throw a monkey wrench into something like RyanCare.
Still... It seems to me that the FC miscalculated: I suspect they thought that “not squawking too loudly” up until the bill was first made public, and then pushing for changes, was the best bet. With 20/20 hindsight, perhaps what they should have done was spend the last couple years crafting a bill of their own, and then spend about 30 million dollars to promote their plan. (A very good, well known spokesman would help, too. Maybe Rudy G., IF he’d agree to do it.) Or, “sell it” to Trump right after the election.
Good thing I don’t allow my children to read anything in this forum. Can’t mature adults post without dropping the f-bomb multiple times?