The Obamacare Repeal has crashed and burned. Again. Despite controlling the Presidency, the House, and the Senate, the Republicans are too incompetent to accomplish what they have promised to accomplish for the last 7 years. The Republicans took the House in 2010 on a promise to repeal Obamacare. Oh, but we don't have the Senate. Fine. In 2014, the voters gave them the Senate on the promise to repeal Obamacare. This is great and all but we don't have the Presidency. So the voters gave the Republicans the Presidency, a man who promised to sign an Obamacare repeal as soon as it landed on his desk. These same congressmen managed to get a bill on President Obama's desk in January of 2016 which Obama vetoed. Where is that bill? Dust it off, send it to Trump. No, we can't do that because he'll sign it!
Politicians never want to give up power once it has been seized. The Democrats crashed and burned in the wake of passing Obamacare, losing more than a thousand seats at all level of government across the country. The Republicans haven't had it this good since the 1920s. When Democrats have this kind of dominance, they legislate and seize more power! The New Deal, the Great Society, Obamacare. When Republicans have it, they form a circular firing squad. They want to keep the power that the Democrats acquired. After all, the other party suffered greatly to seize these added tax dollars and regulations, it would be a shame to retreat from this position.
The Republicans will richly deserve their electoral defeat in 2018. It is a shame that the Democrats will benefit from it. When you look at the wreckage the two parties have wrought, a viable third party has rarely been more needed.
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