This debacle by the GOP establishment reminds me of Picketts Charge at Gettysburg. They attacked right in to the strength of the RATS defenses. Medicare and Social Security. From the start they should have outflanked Obama with an all out war on Obamacare and the hated job killing government agencies. Also the awful waste and graft. But no. Too bad we could not get rid of the Lame GOP leadership. We will pay the price.
Medicare and social security aren’t at issue here. But the GOP is certainly playing into Obama’s hands if they pretend that they are.
I keep telling people that Howard Raines warned us before the election in 2008, that Boehner was going to take a dive on Obamacare, because the Fortune 500/Business Roundtable bunch want it -- so they can dump off their private healthcare premiums and turn that money to pure profit. (They think.)
Boehner's taking a dive. He changed the subject at the beginning of the year to budget-balancing, and jerked up his committee chairs who didn't get on the team. He also stiffed Michele Bachmann, Mrs. Tea Party in the House, and denied her a leadership position AFTER the Tea Party folks handed him the Speaker's gavel.
He's taking the whole country over the Obamacare cliff, because that's what the Masters of the Universe want.
Anybody think not?