About this Obamacare delay thing the GOP wants, I'm pretty easy...
I will exchange a one-year delay in the implementation of Obamacare for the immediate and permanent resignation of the entire House and Senate GOP caucuses. That means they go back to the states that elected them right now, they get the contents of their desks mailed to them (after the FBI goes through their stuff to find any prosecutable offenses), they can never run for any office higher than county commissioner or sheriff, and they can never seek employment as lobbyists. If even one Republican refuses to go home, the deal is off and Obamacare gets implemented on its original schedule.
I will exchange a two-year delay in its implementation for not only the immediate and permanent resignation of all GOP members of Congress, but a pledge that no Republicans will run for either house of Congress in 2014, and no Republican will run for either Congress or the presidency until 2024 - which will give the next Democratic president a Congress free of Republicans for her or his two terms.
Obamacare is "not ready for prime time," as Rep. Useless (he's listed on the House roster as "Raul Labrador"
said yesterday while keynoting the North Idaho Legislative Update in Coeur d'Alene instead of being in DC trying to mitigate the damage his party has created, because of his party's shenanigans. People have had Three Fucking Years to get ready for Obamacare. Three years would have been enough for anyone...but the GOP told the business community, "don't worry your pretty little heads about Obamacare, we're going to defeat it in Congress." And when they didn't defeat it in Congress, they told the business community, "don't worry your pretty little heads about Obamacare, the president won't actually sign such a bill." And when he actually signed the bill his presidential campaign revolved around, they told the business community, "don't worry your pretty little heads about Obamacare, the Supreme Court will declare it unconstitutional." When the Supreme Court declared it constitutional, they told the business community, "don't worry your pretty little heads about Obamacare, we'll just repeal it." And after FORTY attempts to repeal it failed, they told the business community, "don't worry your pretty little heads about Obamacare, we'll shut down the government unless the president does what we want." Why shouldn't the business community have believed the GOP? They've got a pretty solid track record of delivering for big business, so the business community went with their hearts and didn't worry their pretty little heads about actually trying to get Obamacare to work for them - in reality, Obamacare is no worse than ERISA, Dodd-Frank or Sarbanes-Oxley, and the business community has managed to comply with those. Were it not for the GOP, lots of small businesses set up to handle all your Obamacare Compliance needs would exist. Business schools would offer one-semester Obamacare Compliance Specialist courses. There would be a board that certified these people, and an accountant or lawyer would be able to put "COE" (Certified Obamacare Expert) in his or her list of titles and certifications...something like "John Doe Esq., CPA, COE." You'd be able to go to Monster.com and hire Obamacare Compliance Specialists just like you can hire Sarbanes-Oxley compliance specialists or Dodd-Frank specialists. Why can't you? Thank the Republican Party. And now they've got to do three years' worth of work in a week.
Three years. Three years is enough for ANYONE - and no, the law isn't "too complicated to understand." I've read it. It's no worse than anything else health insurance-related. (Which isn't saying much for health insurance...) For God's sake, people, it only took FOUR years for Eisenhower to clean the Nazis out of Europe, and this is going to be much easier.
Even the sleaziest used-car salesman is held to higher standards than we hold our Republicans in Congress to. If you were a Sleazy Used Car Salesman and you made unfulfillable promise after promise, you'd be either fired or jailed. When the House Republican Caucus does it, it's perfectly fine. Well...no, it's not perfectly fine.
So those are the options I will accept: either get rid of every Republican, right now, or implement the timetable in the law as it was written.
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OMG, NOOOOOOOOOOO! 
