Quick Thought - Boy, have the Republicans screwed up "Repeal and Replace" - Granite Grok

Quick Thought – Boy, have the Republicans screwed up “Repeal and Replace”

And they are voting on this Obama-lite tomorrow?  This is amending around the edges; there is little “repeal” other than what I’ve written about earlier.  While killing taxes is always good, they haven’t touched the stuff (regs and mandates) that have made Obamacare so toxic politically and financially.  So how is this “better”?  This isn’t “Republicans Are Doing a Terrible Job Arguing for Their Health-Care Plan“, this is a “Failure to Plan Right” – and expecting us to accept it.  And no,  I disagree with this “Republicans Are Messing Up On Healthcare Even More Than You Thought” – they are proceeding EXACTLY as I thought: the dogs that caught the bumper.  Politically, they knew when they won the election, they lost it from the get go.

I just shake my head at these Bozos in Congress.  All we heard for the last seven years is “VOTE FOR US – we’ll get rid of Obamacare!!!”.  So after giving them the House, then the Senate, we put the Oval Office in their hands.  We shoulda known better because at every step, they said “well, thank you, but NOW we need” that next step.  Each and every time, all we got was excuses instead of promises. I DO wonder if they really meant what they campaigned on because I’m not buying what is being sold.  We didn’t put them in to nibble around the edges – it was supposed to be a clean sweep.  Instead of that clean sweep, all we’re getting is that broom putting up a huge dust cloud. And yet, the boom is being lowered as in “White House warns conservatives ‘no Plan B’ to nix Obamacare: ‘This is it“. It’s almost like “…Republicans never intended to repeal Obamacare“.

A bad bill doing a cliff dive is not “getting it done”.  You’ve got 2 years before you lose your majority.  Be on notice, you will.  Passing this bill will guarantee it as we out here aren’t looking for just a bill to be passed.  We demand the RIGHT BILL to be passed or it will be the same as passing no bill at all.  You had seven years to get it right – you’ve had this going for only a month and right now you’re making the Keystone Kops looking like geniuses.  Really, you are supposed to be the Smart People?

But Skip, we have two more Phases coming!  Tom Price, he’ll rip the snot out of all those regulations and then we’ll swoop in with all of the stuff that will kill what’s left over.  Sorry, not my first rodeo in “depending on you” and have been lied to my face about what was going to be done (premiere example is NH’s Medicaid Expansion led by….Republicans after campaigning against it).

Then why are you acting like you buy into the perception of “Vote for us – we can manage it better” which insinuates that you’re cool with Democrat Big Government but let us handle it.  NO – and get this right – we want you to BLOW IT UP and MAKE IS SMALL AGAIN.  This ain’t doing it.

I look back and remember how fast my head was spinning when the Dems had the House, Senate, and the Presidency – BOY, the legislation rolled out fast and furious on all kinds of fronts. Bottom line – they were READY from the get-go and had done all the legwork in getting all those bills ready well before the new sessions started.

The Republicans – lots of gasbags, a lot of jawboning, but a serious lack of real work.  And if they can’t get this done right, a serious lack of Trust.  Trump, a first time politician, has been working hard to fulfill his campaign promises.  You can’t even get this ONE promise right?

Remember, it isn’t just passing a bill and going “Hey, we did it”.  Not until every vestige of Obamacare is going.  Or no votes for you.  Period.  At any time.  I just can’t Trust you anymore.

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