Trumpcare Is Not Real, No one is this stupid.

[HAB911]

Donald Trump weighed in on the unfolding train wreck and possibly gave away the game:

In an Oval Office meeting featuring several leaders of conservative groups already lining up against the House Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, President Donald Trump revealed his plan in the event the GOP effort fails: Allow Obamcare to fail and let Democrats take the blame, sources at the gathering told CNN.

In light of the preposterous nature of the bill, I submit that letting Obamacare "fail" was always the plan and the AHCA is a ruse designed to make it look like Republicans were actually interested in fixing America's healthcare system. Of course, in this context, "fail" means "do everything possible to sabotage the ACA and then act shocked when it breaks," but let's not quibble over semantics.

Breaking the legs of Obamacare without providing an actual replacement serves several functions. First, it allows Republicans to kill the law without taking responsibility for killing it. Sure, they'll be standing over the fresh corpse with the bloody knife in their hand but the press has been a very reliable accomplice when it comes to ignoring the GOP's culpability for the law's problems.

http://thedailybanter.com/2017/03/trumpcare-is-not-real/

[Scoopster]

1. Stupid?

No. More like deliberately malicious and extremely greedy, to the point where they're willing to let people die to make a buck.

[Cosmocat]

4. THIS

they are TRULY this sick - and to highlight that point, the greatest objections from within their party is that it DOES NOT GO FAR ENOUGH.

[DetlefK]

2. If you announce the murder in advance, and then get found with a bloody knife beside the corpse...

That doesn't sound like a convincing plan.

Trump has already telegraphed that he wants to sabotage the ACA and blame the Democrats. If the ACA fails, how the hell is he supposed to deny that it wasn't his fault????????

[Nitram]

3. They might not be that stupidd, but they certainly are that greedy.

[Cosmocat]

5. Yes, they are this stupid (and sick)

They didn't put 1/100th of the thought into this that this theory would suggest.

They simply did what they have been doing a LONG TIME NOW - grab hold of whatever pops up and scream bloody murder about it, without the first fucking clue about what they are screaming about, much less any kind of "strategy" past throwing a temper tantrum.

It is what they did with Benghazi - Romney got out in front of it that night, looked like an ass, so they do what they do (see what they do for 45) and got 100 percent behind it and made it into the greatest scandal in our history, as they did with Bills blowjob, etc.

They don't put a lot of thought into these things, and then when it comes time to actually have to do something about it, they fall into their nature - mean spirited, hateful actions to provide cover for ball washing the ultra rich.