2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum'Obamacare' turns from GOP uniter to internal divider
Opposition to Obamacare has united the GOP for the past four years, but now its threatening to become a central fault line in the partys simmering civil war.
While still unified on philosophical grounds against President Barack Obamas signature health care reform law, Republicans are no longer using Obamacare to pummel Democrats so much as each other. The divide exists between Republicans engaged in a crusade to repeal the law at all costs and those resigned to accept a government program three years into its implementation.
Theres a schism between people who want to accept reality and be quiet and let the thing take its course, and another side that makes it into a cause célèbre, said former Rep. Steve LaTourette, the recently-retired centrist Republican congressman from Ohio.
Some Republicans have begun relenting to the reality that the law is here to stay after numerous failed efforts to repeal it, Obamas re-election and the Supreme Courts ruling upholding the laws key provision as constitutional. But a number of Tea Party affiliated conservatives insist the law can be vanquished, even if it means shutting down the government.
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/04/20327629-obamacare-turns-from-gop-uniter-to-internal-divider
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Because that one have is sure working overtime, and all their media friends like Huckabee are on board.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)I think they will start referring to Obamacare by another name for there would be no way Obama should get credit for a good thing for our citizens.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)Cha
(297,348 posts)Monk06
(7,675 posts)of 51% of 48%, which is the situation now. The old guard GOP made a big mistake trying to appeal to the mouth breathers on the far right.
The US is rapidly getting more inclusive and multicultural. "White makes right", is no longer true. The world is trending non English and Mocha.