Repeal or bust!
If you can’t repeal it, let Obamacare crash and burn on its own.
Reconciliation can demolish it, wreck it, bust it, leave it on the books in name only.
But without outright repealing the wretched thing, future Congresses ruled by democrats can revive the wreckage without passing a new law and having to go through the 60 vote rule in the Senate to end debate again.
So it must be repealed to be rid of it in our lifetime.
The problem is they can’t repeal the law meaning take the law off the books. If they use brute force in reconciliation, then the democrats will do the same the next time the control Congress.
The way forward is to get the 60 votes. The way to do that is to hit the democrats where they are weak. They are weak because they are vulnerable to criminal prosecution by those having the cajones to prosecute.
Jeff Sessions can hang them on this:
Sessions can hit democrats so hard on the above they will be begging for mercy and the mercy can come in the form of asking for a 5-year prison sentence in lieu of a 10-year one if the prosecutors are persuaded. The persuading can come with a 60 vote repeal of Obamacare in addition to other things.
That’s hardball. It needs to be done.
And repeal RINO Ryan too.