Posted on 07/27/2017 6:28:07 AM PDT by Red Badger
For several years, in his capacity as House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor helped lead the charge on repealing “Obamacare.” Put Republicans in charge, the Virginian told voters, and they’d dismantle the Affordable Care Act.
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The former GOP leader in the House talked to the Washingtonian’s Elaina Plott and conceded that his Republican Party is in a tough spot – parts of the conservative base expect the party to repeal the ACA, because that’s what they were promised – in part because of promises he and his colleagues made that they never intended to keep.
Asked if he feels partly responsible for their current predicament, Cantor is unequivocal. “Oh,” he says, “100 percent.”
He goes further: “To give the impression that if Republicans were in control of the House and Senate, that we could do that when Obama was still in office….” His voice trails off and he shakes his head. “I never believed it.”
He says he wasn’t the only one aware of the charade: “We sort of all got what was going on, that there was this disconnect in terms of communication, because no one wanted to take the time out in the general public to even think about ‘Wait a minute – that can’t happen.’ ” But, he adds, “if you’ve got that anger working for you, you’re gonna let it be.”
In context, when Cantor says he and his party felt the need to “let it be,” he means that Republicans fed a bunch of nonsense to their own voters, then exploited their anger for electoral gain with no intention of following through.
Cantor and his colleagues, in other words, played their base for fools – because they thought it’d help them win some elections, which it did.
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Recall that 28 states filed suit against Obamacare, a law which passed by a whisker. While state attorneys generals do not act on behalf of state legislatures, it is clear that there was significant state level opposition, and a pre-17A senator would listen closely to what his employers thought of Obamacare.
Oh I see you want a Democrat with an “R” by their name?
You have to get past the fact that all Republicans are good. Many are Democrats pretending to be Republicans. This is how the Democrats keeps real conservatives out of congress.
I rather have a Democrat that admits they are Democrat than a Democrat that pretends to be a Republican in order to keep conservatives out of office.
Sorry I strongly disagree with let’s stick with the Democrat with the R by his name. This is why we can’t get things done.
What I want is the same as you do.
What I do NOT want is some return to dumblecrat majorities to “teach them a lesson, by golly”
We barely made it out of that last crap storm. Sending a message by voting D is of no use.
When I look at what happened to Paul Ryan last time: I thought his opponent was making big inroads but he still only got 30%.
Thats disheartening and what goes wrong when some of these yahoos get primaried. For every Dave Brat slaying Goliath, there are 10 more who are simply overmatched.
No, I do not know what the answer is.
Wish the heck I did,,,,,
The Republican Party - We piss on your back and tell you that it’s raining.
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