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Byron York is not happy. He's realizing that his Republican idols in Congress have feet of clay. That when they promised to repeal Obamacare, they didn't really mean it. And he shares his sad with a bunch of crazy other Republicans.
[...] The lawmaker said, "It is a problem that we have members in the Republican conference that do not want Obamacare repealed, because of their district. That's the fundamental thing that we're seeing here."
"I thought we campaigned on repealing it," the lawmaker continued. "Now that it's our turn, I'm finding there's about 50 people who really don't want to repeal Obamacare. They want to keep it." […]
Another Republican, Rep. Steve King, quibbled a bit with the number of House Republicans who don't want to repeal Obamacare — he would put it in the 40s — but felt certain there are lots of Republicans who don't want to repeal. "If you don't want to get rid of federal mandates to health insurance, then it's pretty clear you don't want to get rid of Obamacare," King said.
"Whatever we come out with, it will say to the American people that a full repeal of Obamacare is no longer in the cards," King added. […]
"It's not full repeal. I will be honest, it's not," Rep. Jim Jordan told Fox News on Wednesday. "But it's as good as we think we can get right now."
"We've given up on trying to get this bill repealed, basically," Rep. Louie Gohmert told Fox Business on Tuesday. "But we've been demanding at least let's repeal some of the provisions that we know will bring down rates.
News flash for you, Byron. They never really cared about Obamacare. They just used repeal to hoodwink you and all their voters. Now that the Republican party is actually in a position to be accountable for its promises, it's imploding. Oh, it was really easy to take 60-some votes to repeal the law in part or in whole, when they knew they wouldn't actually be responsible for following through on that. Then never in a million years thought they would actually be in a position to have to take responsibility for 30 million peoples' health care. That's been obvious for the whole seven years in which they've failed to produce a whisper of a real plan. It's obvious in the fact that the plan they came up with was basically just a cut and paste from the Affordable Care Act.
Maybe York and all his pals are ready to face more reality. Like the reality that they don't give a fuck about health policy and never have. That the last eight years have been nothing more than a prolonged and extremely destructive hissy fit over the fact that a black man was elected president—twice—and he did some good stuff for people that they like. That is all the last eight years has been about. That's why Donald fucking Trump is in the Oval Office. Because these cretins who put party above everything else could only win by opposing everything President Obama tried to accomplish.
Well, they "won." Now they are all—including the pundits who've been cheerleading them and propping them up for all these years—finally responsible. And they're showing just how incapable and incompetent they are to govern.