“The only way to get it repealed will be when conservatives not only take both houses, but when Democrats realize they’ll all be out if they don’t cooperate and cut the clowning.”
The only way to get rid of it is to defund it. They’ve had the power under the Constitution since January 2011 to defund it and haven’t used it. All they had to do was submit an annual appropriations bill with no funding for ACA and stand tough. The GOP would not stand tough so the ACA continues.
Denying they couldn’t kill it is like Obama and Hillary saying they didn’t know about Benghazi. Either you are accountable or you aren’t. The Constitution gives the House authority over spending and taxes. Spending cannot occur if the House doesn’t vote for it. Time to hold the Republicans accountable and stop listening to Boehner cry.
“The only way to get rid of it is to defund it. They’ve had the power under the Constitution since January 2011 to defund it and haven’t used it.”
It sounds neat and textbook seventh grade civics. But they were thoroughly plastered when Cruz (God bless him) stood firm at the last impasse and shut down the government. The headwinds of the MSM and the nasty games Obama played made the people turn on the House. The House GOP can not afford to anger too many as they do need to get reelected. The Democrats managed the message and the Republicans took a beating in the poles. And, no, they can’t afford to ignore the polls. True, there are a few principled individuals, but you need the entire group to stick together and they won’t.
A manager told me once, the only way to change a bad rule is to force everybody to adhere to it. The longer we have Obamacare the more people are hurt. The weight of Obamacare now threatens to kill not just the Democratic party, but liberalism as a whole.
I do wish we had dynamic forceful Republican leaders, but we don’t. We have socialist lites. We the people must change the ACA by electing those people who will change it. When we have enough weight the Dems will join in out of self-preservation. The Dems may even find enough backbone to impeach, convict and get rid of the worst president we’ve ever had.