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Republicans Would Repeal Obamacare In Precisely The Way They Accuse Democrats Of Enacting It:Secret negotiating, misrepresentation and a rush to judgment yep, its all there.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republicans-obamacare-repeal_us_586a9074e4b0d9a5945c155a
2naSalit
(86,515 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)They'll have to repeal.
I mean that's all they've focused on these last eight years.
Their dumbass rubes expect it.
Cyrano
(15,031 posts)It was one thing for them to foam at the mouth about Obamacare when they didn't have the power to end it.
Now they're in a "be careful what you wish for" situation. If they kill Obamacare, and replace it with their "alternative," they'll pay a tremendous price at the next congressional elections two years from now.
Even those who always vote for Republicans will start to realize, even if they didn't know it before, that the GOP alternative plan to Obamacare is "Lay down and die".
Most Americans have family members who are on Medicare, or Medicaid, or Obamacare. And let's not forget Social Security. The Republican plan to destroy the American social safety net is nothing more than a plan for the GOP to commit suicide. Then again, it seems to me that many of them are so mean spirited that they really don't foresee the results of their actions. Either that, or they just don't give a damn.
(On edit: Some of you know that my avatar has always been the Eiffel Tower. And there's a reason that I've temporarily changed it to an inverted American flag. Please, please check out:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028443286
Trust me on this. It's important. and it's a way for us to make a small difference to the evil that will befall us on Inauguration Day.)
As you said "they really don't foresee the results of their actions."
That, unfortunately is the downside to propaganda. Once the crazy genie of a false paradigm is let out of the bottle, and the susceptible ones take the bait, there's no getting it all back in the bottle.
I fear we'll just have to let this theater-of-the-absurd play itself out. We'll survive as a country, but we're going to be in a figurative intensive care unit for a long time afterwards.
Cyrano
(15,031 posts)Seems that it's happening here.