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Redstate
slams Reps
How The Stupid Party
Gets Its Name
Posted by Erick Erickson
Thursday, February 3rd
Today was another fine example of how the Republican Party gets labeled
as the stupid party.
Senator Dick Durbin hinted two days ago that the Senate Democrats would
be unified in their opposition to repeal Obamacare except for one or
two. In other words, the GOP had the opportunity to get Democrats to
jump ship.
But Democrats have signaled that they want to “fix” Obamacare, not
repeal it. So the GOP gladly obliged. Without any obstruction, the GOP
went along with the Democrats’ changes to the onerous 1099 provision.
You may say that is a good thing, and you would be right. Except that
doing this, instead of keeping the pain in place until Obamacare is
repealed, makes the pain less and less. And as the pain becomes less
and less because Republicans work with Democrats to “fix” Obamacare, it
becomes less and less likely that Obamacare will actually get repealed.
No Democrat had to vote for repeal because they knew they’d get a
chance to say they were “fixing” Obamacare. And the headline will now
be that the GOP and Democrats in the Senate are cooperating on a “fix”
instead of repeal.
On top of that, however, is the stupidity — sheer stupidity — of
certain Republicans now trying to undermine the litigation against
Obamacare. I’m looking at you Senators Lindsey Graham and John Barasso.
Barasso and Graham have proposed to let states opt-out of having the
citizens of the several states be placed in the individual mandate.
If states can opt out of the individual mandate, they no longer have
grounds to keep up their lawsuit in federal court. Why? Because if they
can choose to opt out of the individual mandate, it is no longer a
constitutional obstruction to them.
Further, proposing this and other changes to Obamacare gives Justice
Anthony Kennedy plausible grounds to say, “Look! Obamacare is severable
and it can survive without the individual mandate.”
Tinkering with Obamacare undermines both the lawsuit against Obamacare
and the effort for full repeal. It doesn’t take a genius to know that,
but it does take the stupid party to ignore it.
Read it at Redstate.com...
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