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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumGOP: HAUNTED BY OWN STUPIDITY
GOPs anti-Obamacare stupidity is about to haunt themJust as their base expects more and more, here's why Republicans will be forced to dial down their empty extremism
BY BRIAN BEUTLER
All year weve watched the running tally of House Republican votes to repeal, defund and dismantle Obamacare climb 40, 41, 42 to one and only one effect. Not to actually harm the Affordable Care Act but to exploit and intensify conservative outrage, by misleading GOP base voters about the likelihood and necessity of ending the law.
Its no surprise that those numbers have ticked up more rapidly in the past several weeks. Obamacares just days away from opening for business, and once that happens, repealing it or defunding it will entail taking health insurance benefits away from Americans. It becomes a much harder fight.
Its also why I imagine that quite soon certainly after the first of the year, when ACA-approved insurance actually kicks in the GOP will lose its appetite for more and more and more doomed repeal votes.
But Republicans are setting themselves up to tumble into a discontinuity of their own creation. The surge of anti-Obamacare legislative antics has created a feedback loop between Republicans and GOP base voters, where each vote increases the rights insistence on defeating the law, which in turn creates more pressure on Republicans to take radical steps to defund or delay or repeal it. But unless they plan on trying to take away peoples insurance in an election year, theyll have to dial back their extreme anti-Obamacare procedural tactics at the moment that the rights insistence on keeping up the fight is most pitched.
full article
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/25/prepare_yourself_for_the_new_politics_of_obamacare/
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GOP: HAUNTED BY OWN STUPIDITY (Original Post)
DonViejo
Sep 2013
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gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)1. GOP=evolutionary dead end!
Laelth
(32,017 posts)2. Interesting. k&r n/t
-Laelth
Vogon_Glory
(9,118 posts)3. They're in a box-canyon of their own making
The rethuglies and Teabaggers are headed into a box canyon of their own making. I have no sympathy for them and no desire to help them find a way out.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)4. I am hoping for a flash flood.
Vogon_Glory
(9,118 posts)5. That would be nice
That would be nice.