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Showing Original Post only (View all)why the GOP is frantically trying to smother Obamacare in the crib [View all]
They know that if Obamacare makes it to full implementation in 2014 that it will become very popular and very hard to overturn.
There will be generations of voters that will hear Democrats crow about this very popular thing that got ZERO Republican votes in either house of congress.
It is similar to the early days of Social Security. The GOP tried every method they could to kill it in its infancy... The courts, congressional votes, you name it. They KNEW that if it ever got a foothold it would be supremely popular and impossible for them to get rid of.
They failed in their quest, and generations of FDR Democrats touted this "third rail" of politics and Democrats have run the House of Representatives for 66 of the past 80 years, including 40 straight from '54 to '94.
Killing Obamacare is a matter of survival for the Republican party. After 2014 there is no turning back. And they are on the record as opposing it en masse in over 30 votes.
The Demographic changes in America are threatening to wipe out the GOP. Their base is old, white, and dying off. The Democratic base is younger, browner, and growing exponentially. The voter ID laws are their way of slowing it down until they can formulate a way to win these growing groups.
Because by 2016, Obamacare will be entrenched and Democrats will have figured out how to get past voter ID roadblocks.
2012 is a critical election for the GOP. They will pull out every stop, because their survival depends on killing Obamacare before its benefits hit the masses.
Be ready.