Don’t hold back Jim. Tell us how you really feel.
As I’ve been saying for weeks now, owebamacare will go into effect on schedule. Not because the gop wing of the uniparty is cowardly so much, but because they WANT owebamacare to go into effect.
If you think about it from their perspective it makes some sense. First off, just think about all the owebamacare related graft. People will be clamoring for exemptions. An owebamacare exemption for your business will be a very nice thing to have. For a price, of course.
Then there’s all the personal data that will suddenly become available. Just think how convenient it will be to look up the medical records of your political opponents!
And then there is the propaganda value. If the gop actually defunded owebamacare, they wouldn’t have it as an ongoing issue to bring up in future elections. The gop corollary to never letting a crisis go to waste is to never let a crisis get away by being resolved.
As for the electoral implications, the gop wing of the uniparty has already done the math. Most gop seats in the house have been safely gerrymandered to the extent that they could run a broken dinner plate with an “R” after it and it would be elected. The gop wing of the uniparty has always been perfectly happy to cede leadership to the ‘rat faction, so long as they get their share of the spoils. This is no different. So a few gop members in marginal seats lose in 2014. So what? The vast majority will be back to ride the DC gravy train for the foreseeable future.
Sure. There’ll be some carefully staged theatrics and melodrama over the CR. But when all is said and done, the gop faction of the uniparty will crawl over broken glass to make sure that owebamacare comes into fruition.
UNLESS... we call God into our pictures again. Beginning with us. And this being a God not merely of “no” but also of “YES.”