Discussion for article #240045
Surely GOP voters will hold the newly elected Republicans to their word on Obamacare just like they did with the campaign chants of “jobs jobs jobs” in 2010 after which they summarily killed all job creation bills to thwart Obama’s plan to improve the US economy.
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Tell them government is the problem and doesn’t work, so it’s a good thing to leave Obamacare alone, rather than risk government making it worse.
They can sell that with a couple of Fox News cycles.
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I’m not sure where this grassroots movement to make President McKinley the new Reagan fits into the narrative who’s too busy for what.
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and, in the immediate future, a crowded calendar of extremely pressing other issues.
At what point in the last two sessions of Congress has this ever been a deterrent?
“A substantial effort taking on Obamacare doesn’t fit well with all that,” Ornstein said,
“Republicans don’t want to provide a safety valve that would take off some of the pressure of a full repeal.”
Ah, I see. Governing was a little harder than you thought, wasn’t it? Especially when pandering to a very limited base. Your own people can’t see their way down the road. Leadership is a finicky thing.
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A small correction-Repealing Obamacare, wouldn’t cost millions, it would cost BILLIONS (tens of billions to be precise).
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If they can sell this , they can sell anything
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Another case of how GOP made their own pile of shit and now they have to clean it up.
I doubt they are organized enough to get much done before the next midterms where they will lose a lot of ground. In the meantime I am not really worried about them being able to effect much of anything.
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When, exactly, did “a possible government shutdown” become an “issue?”
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Pushing any attempted repeal vote to next year is even more damaging than trying to fight that losing battle this year. While Cruz and Paul would gleefully vote to repeal Obamacare, Rubio, who hopes to be the Republican nominee or somebody’s VP pick, probably doesn’t want to take that vote. I’m guessing that the six GOPers sitting in blue/purple seats who are up for reelection are even less likely to want to go on record voting to repeal or voting to save Obamacare. I’m also thinking the GOPers vying for the five open seats (3 of which set up their own exchanges and/or accepted the Medicaid expansion) aren’t particularly keen to have to defend their party’s renewed repeal efforts.
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Here’s McConnell losing on defunding PP as well:
President Obama has run circles around ol’ Mitch. And I couldn’t be happier about that.
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Wait, what? They’re still talking about repeal?
Haha.
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If only Democrats could get voters to the polls during midterms - none of this would have happened…
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Republicans are like the "George Costanza"s of government. They work so hard trying NOT to work, they work harder than if they just did their work.
At least they have nothing to show for it.
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Yes. They had one job–the one they ran on–and can’t get it done. Meanwhile, they’ve run into their one (real) job–governing–and discovered that that has to be done. Except that, for all of Boehner’s and McConnell’s talk of being the grownups in the room, the GOPers who were elected, most of them, didn’t win because they promised to behave like grownups, because that’s not what the base was asking of them in the first place.
I’d be amused by all of this irony if it weren’t for the fact that a bunch of crucial stuff indeed does have to be taken care of, stuff that affects all of us, whether or not we voted for these people.
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Republicans have been promising jobs and prosperity ever since Reagan and the whole ‘cutting taxes will create jobs’ idea. Thirty-five years later and the Democrats should be demanding to know where the high paying jobs the GOP promised are.
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Yes Republicans. Governing is hard work! Also, the Obamacare nightmares you foretold simply never came true, and it’s hard to spook the public who are now happily buying their own healthcare, and enjoying access to quality medical care for the first time in years!
Why so many words when the subject is so simple? The GOP opposed ACA because it was an Obama thing. The problem was it was also a good thing. They can’t repeal it and everyone knows that. Same for the Iran deal…it was an Obama thing and good thing. They’re going to yak but they are never going to repudiate that deal.
The reason: they don’t pay a political penalty for this. The USA is so divided folks would rather be lied to by those they side with than listen to the truth from “the other side”.
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This poll was taken among the category of voters that’s even stupider than no information voters. Head shaking and eye rolling was the response here to this when we saw it on Maddow.
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FOX, Talk Radio, Stoopid and MSM types like Todd and Garrett do a LOT. Moreover, the Repub Base has some of the most fertile minds for the Gibberish. It is like planting a weed in the Amazon Forest or New Guinea. Some of the Allied troops fighting in New Guinea in WWII were amazed when they saw seedlings and other small plants literally grow before their eyes.
But there is a problem for the Senate Repubs… there may be enough Democrats “coming out” (there’s that phrase again) on a PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YEAR to take the Senate, given those particular seats up for re-election.
Dealing with OUR problem, in the event of a Presidential Democratic victory, of handling a still Republican (Gerrymandered) House of Representatives…that’s another matter.
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