The irony is that for seven years they "promised" to repeal the ACA

[question everything]

I think that it was only last year, perhaps two years, that they started talking about "repeal and replace."

And while they thought that repealing would be a simple vote - apparently not - repeal and replace required more work and none of these idiots thought to have something ready.

Also, while many voters cheered their representatives and Whiny Donny with their promise of repeal, even voted for them, all of a sudden, when losing their benefits appeared real, they realized that they actually like them.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. They knew Obama would veto a repeal, so they never had to figure out

what to do if it passed. They could just placate the wingnuts by going through the motions of repeal because Obama. But with a GOPer in the White House (and a particularly loathsome one at that), they actually had to have a plan, and they never could come up with one.

[question everything]

3. I hope that Democratic candidates running against them in their red counties

will point this to them.

See? You thought that they could govern once they got the power.

Maybe

[RainCaster]

2. They got so used to saying "NO" that some never stopped

Isn't that what the Turtle taught them?

[crosinski]

4. Their reality moved on to 2017 while their rhetoric was stuck in 2010. Poor things. :)