A Blueprint for the GOP's Attempt to Sabotage Obamacare

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Say someone blows the wheels off a moving train and blames the accident on whoever built the engine. Fair game?

That’s precisely what Republicans are up to with their onslaught against Obamacare. Their tactics go well beyond political opposition: as others have pointed out, what’s happening now is deliberate sabotage of a duly enacted and Supreme Court–affirmed law. This morning Norm Ornstein, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, called the GOP’s efforts to block the implementation of the law “unprecendented” and “sharply beneath any reasonable standards of elected officials with the fiduciary responsibility of governing.”

The GOP has a narrowing window in which to wreck the rollout and blame structural deficiencies in the law, and they’re intent on smashing their way through it. Not only are they sacrificing the well-being of millions of Americans—now they’re gambling the global economy, too.

Here’s a blueprint for the GOP’s sabotage act, which runs the gamut from spreading half-truths to, as John Boehner himself put it, “risk[ing] the full faith and credit of the United States.”

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