A shambles.

[mac56]

Today is a good day for America. It may not have been the beginning of the end, but it may be the beginning of the beginning of the end. We have witnessed the factionalism within the GOP. Conservative members felt the repeal-and-replace bill didn’t do enough to dismantle Obamacare, while the more moderate members worried that the bill would rip away health insurance from too many Americans. And not one of them was willing to stand up to Jackhole and say, your plan sucks, let's come up with something that fixes the problems and will pass. Not one of them would tell the Emperor that he has no clothes.

Friends, today we witnessed the sort of circular firing squad normally convened by Democrats. The Republicans are beginning to figure out that their party is a shambles.

[wryter2000]

1. I hope you're right

I celebrated when BushII left the party in shambles. Didn't take long for them to come roaring back.

What's sad is, if the Teabaggers had been a little less cruel, this would have passed. (I don't think it would have survived the Senate, though.)

[underpants]

2. They brought it on themselves. They created the drama - Teabaggers

The party that had its own Commandment about not attacking each other, for some unknown reason, created a faction of themselves. This faction was created to divert attention from a party basically left in ruins after the W fiasco which was painfully illustrated by the 2006 Midterms and losing the White House to a black guy. This new faction, the self named Teabaggers, created energy and drew daily news coverage. It was tailor made for the news drama industry.

The problem always was going to be giving the usually controllable rabble the illusion of power and a voice. They rode this crowd without actually giving it power then the powers thought it would just fade away. It jumped up and bit them voting out (with Democratic help) the #2 Republican in the House in a primary - Cantor. Time passed and this crowd was clearly going to be subdued. THEN this empowered element voted for Trump in early primaries and, with tons of media support, created a swell in a wildly wide cast of candidates. The the unthinkable happened- the nomination and then the win. No one saw that coming. No one.

This small unneeded cast of characters forced the party to stop whining while President Obama gave them cover and govern.

Today a band of 30 (80 if you believe the bespectacled dimwit Brat who replaced Cantor) empowered by the money people in the party - for pennies really - exposed the entire apparatus as a joke.

It was literally "A House divided..." and they couldn't make a stand.