“If I vote for this healthcare bill, it will be the end of my career.” - Granite Grok

“If I vote for this healthcare bill, it will be the end of my career.”

Yesterday at the Rally for Jerry, I said the above to a prominent GOP activist here in NH when she said “not to worry” in that the DC GOPers will get the job done and repeal Obamacare.  I thought she’d about fall off her chair – she knows I don’t kid about such things.  I think that any Right leaning voter ought to be intently looking at that line and starting thinking “is any of this (support GOPers unconditionally) worth my effort any more”?  Sorry, I’m really starting to believe that we’ve been double-crossed.  Again. By the GOP.

Remember, almost every Obamacare repeal bill since its inception has pretty much been unanimous by Republicans.  Remember, almost every Republican campaigned on its repeal.  They knew their base wanted it GONE.  Remember how they cajoled, begged, pleaded, and asked: “give us the House…give us the Senate…give us the Presidency.  Then and ONLY then we can make that happen.”

Consistency yields Trust yielding Votes.  We believed what they said.  Remember, we gave them the House and they couldn’t get it done.  Remember, we gave them the Senate (and more in the House) an they couldn’t get it done. Remember, we gave them the Presidency (and more in the Senate) and THEY STILL CAN’T GET IT DONE. Now we see their lack of being able to be forward looking now that votes REALLY matter.  These spineless wonders are running to save their own hides and they give us this AS IF WE CARE:

Those “no” votes include Reps. Patrick Meehan (Pa.), Ryan Costello (Pa.), Barbara Comstock (R-Va.), Jaime Herrera Beutler (Wash.) and John Katko (N.Y.), all centrists who had reservations about the earlier ObamaCare repeal bill that was pulled from a floor vote because of a lack of GOP support…

Many vulnerable Republicans are running scared. One moderate Republican was overheard in a House cafeteria this week telling an aide: “If I vote for this healthcare bill, it will be the end of my career.”

Yeah, that’s the kind of political courage the GOP returns back to their base.  We voted for them and they are giving us the shaft.  Democrats gave up their political lives to make Obamacare the law – and these GOP weasels can’t muster the same conviction to do what they PROMISED to do?  Do these yahoos ever think that their base was the one that brung them to the dance and in many cases, are the ones that can dump them by the side of some country road out in nowhere.  WHY would they worry about those that MIGHT vote for them over those that DID vote for them?

For Congressional GOPers, this would be the Number One issue.  Have they gamed out the odds if they don’t do what the base said it wanted them to do?

I was against the first Obamacare repeal simply because it was no repeal at all.  Sure, I posted about some things that they would repeal but in the large, not much would be pulled out.  At that time, it was “we’re repealing it!!”.  Then after that “Hey, we have Phase two (hoping that HHS Sec Tom Price would do their heavy lifting for them on the regulatory side) and Phase Three coming (but totally unknown what that would contain).  “Trust us” they said.

We lit up the phones again – we didn’t trust them.  Nor should we with a line like the above which translates as “I like my career FAR more than doing what I promised”.  My promise is now “I don’t Trust you – not voting for a DC GOP for the House or Senate if you all don’t rip it out by its roots.  Don’t care if that means the House and Senate go completely Democrat.

After all, they won’t bother to repeal it either, so what good are you?  And I’m not the only one:

They may not have that long. If Republicans don’t deliver on a seven-year promise to repeal ObamaCare with majorities in both chambers and a Republican president, with reconciliation open as a path, then voters might just decide that the GOP is not a viable governing party. In the much longer-term sense, of course.

And they are the only ones – Byron York just comes out and says it plainly:

Why can’t the House repeal Obamacare? Because a lot of Republicans don’t want to

…By this time, it’s becoming increasingly clear that Republicans have not repealed Obamacare because a lot of Republicans do not want to repeal ObamacareThey don’t even want to sorta repeal Obamacare. The bill currently on the table, like the bill pulled in March, falls far short of a full repeal of Obamacare. And yet Republicans still cannot agree on it.

And:

“A pure repeal would get less than 200 votes,” said the second member quoted above. “It really is one of the biggest political shams in history — many of these members would not have been elected without promising repeal, and now they are wilting. Some are even complaining that [the Rep. Tom MacArthur amendment] pushes the bill too far right — even though is it far short of a full repeal.”

I’ve already been looking elsewhere as it seems that the GOP just want to be the next Whigs.

(H/T: Hot AirHot Air, Washington Examiner)

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