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By DYLAN SCOTT Published AUGUST 28, 2014, 6:00 AM EDT
The implosion of the GOP's all-or-nothing assault on Obamacare might have started on Election Night 2010. Republicans thought they had been validated in their relentless attacks on the law, swept to huge victories in the House. Four years ago, it seemed unthinkable that they would ever waver.
As recently as last fall, conservatives felt as confident as they'd ever been when the federal health insurance exchange HealthCare.gov failed miserably in its first days. It reinvigorated their faith in fighting the law after the U.S. Supreme Court and 2012 presidential election dealt that thinking a serious blow.
But since the heady days of cancelled policies and a balky website, the political viability of absolutist repeal has been on a downward spiral. It was probably a decline made inevitable when President Barack Obama beat Mitt Romney in 2012, which ensured that repeal would at least be vetoed for another four years. But that decline has been slow enough that it can be difficult to detect.
Even though Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who fancies himself to be a thought leader in the party, still tweets #FullRepeal with regularity, he's become an increasingly lonely voice. The use of Obamacare as an effective Republican attack looks almost at its end. It's been a long time coming.
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MADem
(135,425 posts)That's the "big fail" with the GOP plan. Their supporters aren't immune from life's trials and travails. As more people benefit from the Evil Obamacare, they'll have to revert to their default position: "Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah--it was Romney's idea, not Obama's!!! WAAAAH!"
Give it time, you'll see the argument morph like a basstid.
Of course, never mind that a Democratic-majority MA legislature did a lot of correcting to "Romney's" triangulation scheme.
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]"The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it."
Tony Randall, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)[/center][/font][hr]
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)the GOP and Fox News is not going to be pretty for either one of them.
Not to mention the mass media as their partners in this massive speech crime.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)...or even another majority.