Republicans Loot the Palace ...

[PsychoBabble]

This week’s rollout of Paul Ryan’s “repeal and replace” Obamacare bill is an excellent reminder of what the country would look like if any Republican other than Donald Trump had won the presidency — not that different. We can now say for sure that the problem isn’t just that the party nominated an crude, unprepared conman for the top job. The problem is that the party itself is a big sloppy hot mess. How could we have forgotten?

Like the old Republican cry of “tort reform,” which nobody really understood, “Repeal Obamacare” became a slogan that would evoke lusty cheers from an audience of partisans. If you asked any of them what it meant in practice, not one could tell you. Not that it mattered. The whole issue was political kabuki once the Affordable Care Act was rolled out and tens of millions of people signed on to it, and the Republicans knew it. Their elected legislators just kept voting for repeals they knew would never be enacted and screaming their empty slogan at rallies to keep their base excited ...

... So we have yet another Republican president throwing Bush-league amateurs into jobs that are over their heads, along with a Republican Congress full of people who’ve either been getting by on an unearned reputation for seriousness or whose definition of legislating is to hold their breath until they turn blue and then declare victory.

If you liked the way the Bush administration handled running Iraq in the first years of the war, you’re going to love how the Trump administration and the GOP Congress runs America. It seems that’s the only model the Republican Party knows anymore.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/republicans-loot-palace-gops-plan-govern-looks-lot-way-it-rebuilt-iraq-0

[Kablooie]

1. The problem is that these imbeciles may actually change things that affect people's lives.

They may be idiots but the chain saws they wield are real.

[Warpy]

2. but but but all those people cheering for repeal wanted OBAMA care repealed,

not the ACA! They liked what the ACA had done for them, their friends and their families. That OBAMAcare had to go, it was just a lot of free stuff for black freeloaders. The ACA was what hard working white folks had finally gotten.

Yes, bigots and other Republicans are just this ignorant. The party likes it that way.

[Gabi Hayes]

3. barbarians at the gate

lots more than the money, honey