In this piece at MSNBC, which explains that his strategy to destroy the ACA is to find a way to shut down the government in order to stop the full-scale implementation of Obamacare.
Why does he think this is a good idea? Some snips from the piece:
By Rubio’s reasoning, Obamacare “will lead to America’s decline, because it . . . seeks to remake America in others’ images when it is America that has always been the example for other nations.” ...
Never mind that the system Rubio wants to preserve is the most costly and least effective in the developed world.
Some more thoughts over the orange border.
I was traveling in 2010, when Palin and friends were screaming their heads off about Death Panels. Strangers in various countries came up to me and asked why people were picketing against better health care policies. I can assure the silly senator that there are very few countries who want to copy the US health care system.
And - should we refuse good ideas simply because they were invented in another country?
Like democracy - invented in Athens.
Like gunpowder - invented in China.
Like Velcro - invented in Switzerland.
Like the number Zero - invented in India.
Like long-range radio transmissions - credit goes to Italy
Like calculus - credit shared by England and Germany
The USA has been a real leader with respect to innovation, but that doesn't mean that no one else ever has had a good idea. And we should stop biting off our noses to spite our faces and instead use good ideas from other places.
Fortunately, many Republicans are not biting.
Coburn is old enough to remember 1995, when a Republican Congress shut down the government during a standoff with President Bill Clinton. The legislators retreated in the face of public outrage, and Clinton emerged as the resolute hero who had refused to be blackmailed. “I’d be leading the charge if I thought this would work,” Coburn told the Examiner. “But it will not work . . . The president is never going to sign a bill defunding Obamacare.”
The congressional leadership seems to understand that—neither Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell nor House Speaker John Boehner has endorsed the shutdown strategy—so this week we have Sens. Lee and Rubio running in different directions to save face.
Note, as DerAmi pointed out, McConnell is the Minority, not the Majority, leader in the Senate.
Still, we need to keep pushing this. I really enjoy the diaries with examples of Obamacare in action, saving lives and money and improving overall quality. The more stories we get out there, the sillier Senator Rubio will look.
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Tired of politics? Need to escape? Try one of my Greek-mythology based novels, either the story of Jocasta: The Mother-Wife of Oedipus or a trilogy about Niobe, or one of the first examples of civil disobedience, Antigone and Creon. Or, if you like mysteries and/or Jane Austen, treat yourself to The Highbury Murders: A Mystery Set in the Village of Jane Austen’s Emma very positively reviewed at the Daily Kos Monday Murder Mystery blog.