This is a non-issue. They didn’t do a budget this session of the Congress, so they couldn’t pass it with just 50 votes anyway.
“GOP gives up”.....their mantra.
GOP .... worthless pups.
Repeal it? How about lifetime elected-service name for anyone who for it? Confiscation of their worldly goods? Expungement of their names from the lexicon?
They gave up on border and interior enforcement 30 years ago.
The GOP is not on the side of the citizens and the rule of law.
Some Republicans are, but the GOP is not.
This column and so many others simply confirm the necessity of an Article V Convention of States.
What do you expect from the “BACKSTABBER” of the House??
They never had a plan. They had three months after election win to the inauguration and had nada nothing...Just throw the ten million on Obamacare into Medicaid and go back...
The GOPe never wanted to repeal it.
GOPe = RAT = UniParty = Deep State = Communist
They are ALL the same. It’s all about control and the money....especially the money.
The individual mandate is gone, that is all that matters
The rest of it will just die out over time
The two things that will kill the middle class in this country is 0bamacare (it’s actually designed to destroy the middle class) and failing to stop the illegal invasion.
On top of this we have a two-tier rule of law that rivals your average Banana Republic.
Tax cuts, tariffs, relaxing regulations, etc. are good, but will never offset the damage being done in other areas.
They lied from day one when they kept saying: "Elect us and we'll repeal Obamacare!" Then, they changed it to "repeal & replace". Now, it's "never mind"!
Not exactly. The key was this session.
If the Supreme Court strikes down Obamacare through Texas v. U.S. then there will be nothing left to repeal. Maybe that’s what they are waiting for?
Relax. Trump is dismantling the thing. It’ll happen, which is why Hussein has been lulled away from the surfboard and on the campaign trail.
Yet these cowardly RINOs had the semblance of a spine when Obama was in charge and they knew they didn’t have a prayer in repealing it.
These same scumbags even campaigned on how they would repeal it.
Now that they are in charge, any spine and balls have been happily turned over to the DNC for safe keeping.
Most Rino uniparty establishment types have always really supported taking more of your money and freedom.
A very few fought valiantly against 0bummercare when it really counted.
So I guess the GOP needs to be repealed and replaced.
Obamacare won’t be repealed, because it can’t be repealed - or, more exactly, it can’t be repealed without ushering in huge Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate.
Members of Congress don’t know much, but they can count votes like a pimp in a whorehouse can count money.
Yes, the voters “hate Obamacare and want it repealed”. That is absolutely true.
It’s also true that they want the ability to buy insurance for pre-existing conditions, want insurance companies to be forbidden to cancel policies for non-payment, want zero payment at the point of service, want their adult children who are smoking dope in a dive in Oakland to stay covered, want their States to expand Medicaid without taxes going up, and so on.
In other words, the only two things they hate about Obamacare are paying for it, and the name.
Republicans in Congress understand this perfectly well, which is why there’s no plan.
And, not coincidentally, Obamacare (and Romneycare) were the culmination of fifty years of “reform”, all of which had the purpose of destroying the private sector or making it impossible for the private sector to function, except for boob jobs and a few other things. And, by 2009, the mission was largely accomplished.
Obamacare was merely a temporary mop-up operation, until full nationalization was possible.
And now, it is.
Like Nixon to China, Trump will propose single payer within the year. It’s really the only way out at this point.
And before you accuse me of favoring it, realize that it will destroy a lifetime of work for me. I don’t like it - I hate it.
But it’s coming, because it’s what the voters, bless their pointy little heads, want.