Just how unimaginative can they be? Coming out of their weekend retreat, House Republicans unveiled their big 2020 initiative to win back disaffected voters ... Obamacare repeal. That will be the key element to their other main goal of … reducing the debt.
"The first thing we would do is make sure our debt is taken care of," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said. They would do it by repealing the Affordable Care Act, he said. Apparently it has become an entitlement for Republicans. "We were one vote short of entitlement reform," he said, of the failed attempt to repeal the ACA in 2017. "We will have the opportunity with a Republican Senate and President Trump to change it once and for all and make America stronger," McCarthy said Friday. So Social Security and Medicaid and Medicare are off the hook? Don't count on it.
The ridiculousness continued. "We want to protect pre-existing conditions. We want to lower the cost of health care while raising quality overall," McCarthy said. Also, according to House Republican number 2 Steve Scalise, "health care is an important issue for us to lean in on." He said that Republicans reworking their 2017 "replacement" bill to "make it even stronger." Yes, that is a thing that's really happening this time, right. We believe that, for sure.
What was a lot more believable was McCarthy back in February, still reeling from the Blue Tsunami that swept Republicans out of the majority in the House. Back then, the Washington Post got partial recordings from a call McCarthy had with his donors in which he "squarely blamed Republican losses in last year's midterm elections on the GOP push to roll back health insurance protections for people with preexisting conditions—and in turn blamed his party's right flank."
If you can't beat the maniacs, join them?
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