The GOP is promising that the first bill they will send to President Obama’s desk for his veto is the repeal of the (not) Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare).
They could have already done that in the multi-trillion dollar budget that they passed last month. Instead, they left Obamacare completely intact, and left Planned Parenthood intact as well, in a bill that really mattered.
By their actions so far, the GOP seems to be sending the message that they’d rather keep their Boogeymen (Obamacare and Planned Parenthood) around so that they have wedge issues that they can readily go after for political points.
They don’t have a prayer of succeeding in either goal unless they increase their control of both houses (very unlikely due to the do-nothing Congress and GOP) and pull off a miracle in November and put someone in the White House.
The sooner the GOP puts up and shuts up, the sooner people like me will start to believe what they’re saying and promising. I have no faith in the current Congress to get anything done this year, while I have every expectation for President Obama to do exactly what he says he’s going to do, and rule by presidential proclamation, regardless of whether it’s constitutional or not.
Prove me wrong, GOP. Get something done.
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