[trappedincanuckistan]

And so it begins......

[Sergio]

If our elected officials (most of them lawyers), had read the bill before passing it, they would have seen the poison pill in the contract.

[Gritty]

The GOP needs another name change.

Instead of simply the Stupid Party they now need to be known as The Stupid and Cowardly Party.

I think they are already the latter, but in the interest of truth in advertising, they need to make it official.

[magooey]

So we had to pass Obamacare to find out what was in the 2000+ pages of legislation. Now that we know it's carp, it is too late to fix major problems.

A massive number of people wrote, telephoned and emailed Congress to express their very negative views on Obamacare before it was deemed passed. As Ben Franklin put it, "a republic, if you can keep it".

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This is actually an important note for conservatives.

An essential part of Obamacare was that it had to destroy Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health care systems, so that it could absorb their functions. And this is probably the only successful thing Obamacare has accomplished. Those systems are in tatters.

So if the Republicans “just kill” Obamacare, it will result in a disaster. It has to be a “controlled demolition” to get rid of the damned thing, without suddenly throwing millions of people “out on the street”, with no support at all.

Republicans have to plan *right now* on how they are going to bring about an end to Obamacare “safely”.

This is terribly hard. They do not want to bring back Medicare and Medicaid, which are unstable and collapsing, so they must devise some stable replacement, with hopefully far less government involvement, until private systems can fill the gap.

[cva66snipe]

Translation: We have examined our campaign coffers and junkets and saw a substantial increase in Insurer donors {who stand to make Billions under Obamacare} during the past several quarters. As a result we concluded we will one and all sell out and hope the voters forget be election time. Thank for supporting the Democratic-GOP one Party System.

[free me]

Any bill to repeal it all could also return funding mechanisms to their previous state.

I swear these people are going to force this to end in bloodshed.

[ConservativeInPA]

“backfill discretionary programs ...”

We can't afford and we do not need discretionary programs. I'd be quiet happy if those items enumerated in the Constitution were funded. No more, no less. The rest goes to the several States and the People.

[BlessingsofLiberty]

This is not the year and this is not the time...but, I think it is time for a new party. A truly realistic move toward a third party.

Our present two party system is broken and corrupt. I see people on both sides of the aisle that shouldn’t be sitting in the positions of power that they currently hold.

The Framers should have put term limits within the Constitution. Yes, we can vote them out. But, unfortunately, too many people in this country are disengaged from what is really going on in Washington.

This allows these politicians to continually grab power through their political machines and money bases. The average citizen cannot begin to run a viable political race against these individuals.

I don’t think our Founders ever envisioned this happening.