Quote:ordnance11 wrote:Judging from some threads I've spotted on Tumblr and Facebook, a fair number of the Republican rank-and-file apparently had no idea that "Obamacare" and the ACA were one and the same thing, and were gladly supporting the utter destruction of the first while thanking their lucky stars for the second. Watching individuals discovering that the two were the same program, and realizing that they'd voted in people who were going to demolish it, has been mixed moment of schadenfreude for me...
They'll get rid of the ACA. Of course when the fallout from that begins, watch them scurry.
Of course, it's been clear recently that only the most disconnected-from-reality archconservatives among the Republicans haven't realized that they can't get rid of the ACA without a massive backlash from the voters -- hence the cry of "repeal and replace" that has become the new mantra for Congress. The big problem they now face is that the ACA was a copy of a conservative Republican heathcare program -- Romney's from Massachussetts, if I recall correctly. (The only reason it was fought so bitterly was the usual reason -- a Democrat did it, specifically the despised Obama.) The Republicans now have to come up with an even more conservative program that somehow doesn't look exactly like the ACA, and doesn't screw over more constituents than they can afford to lose -- or their heads will be on pikes in 2 and/or 4 years.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.