Right. Some of us paid attention to how the congressional GOPhers were walking back all that talk of repeal in the fall of 2012, floating things like "it would cause chaos if the mandate is repealed!" and "we'll leave the parts in place that make sense"....parts like the individual mandate. I've seen this ballet before. It starts off with a statist GOPher president and a statist GOP congress making government bigger and more intrusive. Kinda like when team blue is calling the tune, but only with what passes for conservatives barking "why do you hate a'murka?!" when denouncing The Decider's growth of fedgov. Zots and bannings abound. Same movie, different actors.
I think the window was open, even if only a crack. You think the window was closed. It doesn’t matter.
It’s closed now.