Great Moments In WTF

[DonViejo]

By DAVID KURTZ Published MARCH 24, 2017, 5:07 PM EDT

This gem:

Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) admitted as much as he left the meeting Friday. Reporters asked why, after Republicans held dozens of nearly-unanimous votes to repeal Obamacare under President Obama, they were getting cold feet now that they control the levers of power.

“Sometimes you’re playing Fantasy Football and sometimes you’re in the real game,” he said. “We knew the president, if we could get a repeal bill to his desk, would almost certainly veto it. This time we knew if it got to the president’s desk it would be signed.”

David Kurtz is Managing Editor and Washington Bureau Chief of Talking Points Memo where he oversees the news operations of TPM and its sister sites.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/joe-barton-fantasy-football-repeal-obamacare

[Warpy]

1. That and they'd gone home to angry constituents in the previous month

who told them they'd be on the unemployment line very quickly if they tried to repeal the ACA without something demonstrably better in its place. Having been chewed up and spit out, they realized karma would run over their dogma pretty quickly and lost their enthusiasm for repeal.

[Beartracks]

2. Finally! I sports analogy for partisan politics I can agree with! n/t

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[Lucky Luciano]

3. Wow! Hang that around th thugs' neck. Cynically partisan to the max. nt