The Republican ObamaCare Choke - WSJ op-ed
By Daniel Henninger
Less than three months into full control of government and the chance to reshape the American system for a generation, Republicans are doing something no one thought possible: They are reinventing the circular firing squad... The result will be guaranteed political defeat for years if congressional Republicans choke at the chance to repeal and replace ObamaCare.
The Beltway bubble has never looked so big or real as now, to wit: The Trump-Ryan-Price health-care reform bill is too tough on Medicaid. Or it isn’t tough enough. It will break the Trump entitlement bond with the middle class. We want the 2015 repeal-only bill. Let ObamaCare collapse. What’s the rush? We can do this reform some other time.
The American people didn’t endure and survive the 2016 presidential election for this. The public that voted Donald Trump into the White House will drive Republicans into a deserved wilderness if they go back on the only promise anyone can remember them making the past six years.
The day the Republicans clutch on this reform, there will be six-column headlines across the Washington Post and New York Times: “Trump Abandons Promises on Health Care.” It will be a fast ride downhill from there. That is because the health-care reform bill is linked inextricably to the politics of tax reform, the second pillar of the Trump legislative agenda.
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The logic is inescapable of what will happen if reform of both health care and taxes goes out with a whimper. As President Trump’s political capital and approval decline under a barrage of media-payback glee, and as the clock moves closer to the midterm election, Republicans will head for the tall weeds on everything. The Trump presidency will be over in under a year.
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If this bill fails, there is only one Plan B. It will be a single-payer system enacted after 2020 with votes from what’s left of the Republican party after—Donald Trump is right about this—they get wiped out in 2018 and lose the presidency two years later. After blowing it on ObamaCare, why would anyone vote for them again?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-republican-obamacare-choke-1489618345
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Too wishful thinking. The deplorables will never blame Trump.
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so................................
1. We got an Afro-American President of the United States
2. We got a health insurance plan for people without health insurance..
3. We elected a President, Barack Obama, who was/became/ and still is the most respected person in the entire world.
4. We have had a recovery that equals any in history, lead by President Obama
5. A Russian Prime Minister/ KBG agent...got involved and probably fixed a U.S. Presidential Election
6. Hillary got 3 million more votes and was not elected
7. In some places in the USA we just went through the warmest winter in history...but oh no..there is no such thing as "climate change...
8. .........................................and..................are you ready??????????????????????
9... THE CHICAGO CUBS BECAME WORLD CHAMPIONS OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL....
wait..is that last one for real????did it happen???....let me look at the history again...........
