GOP: HAUNTED BY OWN STUPIDITY

[DonViejo]

GOP’s anti-Obamacare stupidity is about to haunt them

Just as their base expects more and more, here's why Republicans will be forced to dial down their empty extremism

BY BRIAN BEUTLER

All year we’ve watched the running tally of House Republican votes to repeal, defund and dismantle Obamacare climb — 40, 41, 42 — to one and only one effect. Not to actually harm the Affordable Care Act but to exploit and intensify conservative outrage, by misleading GOP base voters about the likelihood and necessity of ending the law.

It’s no surprise that those numbers have ticked up more rapidly in the past several weeks. Obamacare’s just days away from opening for business, and once that happens, repealing it or defunding it will entail taking health insurance benefits away from Americans. It becomes a much harder fight.

It’s also why I imagine that quite soon — certainly after the first of the year, when ACA-approved insurance actually kicks in — the GOP will lose its appetite for more and more and more doomed repeal votes.

But Republicans are setting themselves up to tumble into a discontinuity of their own creation. The surge of anti-Obamacare legislative antics has created a feedback loop between Republicans and GOP base voters, where each vote increases the right’s insistence on defeating the law, which in turn creates more pressure on Republicans to take radical steps to defund or delay or repeal it. But unless they plan on trying to take away people’s insurance in an election year, they’ll have to dial back their extreme anti-Obamacare procedural tactics at the moment that the right’s insistence on keeping up the fight is most pitched.

full article
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/25/prepare_yourself_for_the_new_politics_of_obamacare/

[gopiscrap]

1. GOP=evolutionary dead end!

[Laelth]

2. Interesting. k&r n/t

-Laelth

[Vogon_Glory]

3. They're in a box-canyon of their own making

The rethuglies and Teabaggers are headed into a box canyon of their own making. I have no sympathy for them and no desire to help them find a way out.

[Arugula Latte]

4. I am hoping for a flash flood.

[Vogon_Glory]

5. That would be nice

That would be nice.