It's what we've suspected for a while now, and what's consistently being confirmed. The GOP establishment has utterly given up on principle. They'd rather remain a permanent minority, as long as they maintain some insignificant smidgen of power. The quisling leadership folds to Obama and Democratic demands at every turn, while repeatedly expressing its disdain for conservatives who want to restore our individual liberties. And when it comes to the President's oppressive namesake, Obamacare, GOP leaders and establishment operatives make it quite clear that they want to fix it, not repeal it. This is Republican defeatism rapidly embracing progressivism. In other words, if you can't beat'em, join'em. However, the debacle known as Obamacare has critically bruised Democrats, thus it's the very definition of ignorance for Republicans not to capitalize on that fact...but that's what appears to be going on.Rush gives us the latest case of the Republican establishment ultimately snatching defeat from the jaws of victory by not only downplaying Tuesday's electoral victory in Florida, but discarding the role Obamacare's unpopularity played in it...
"We have this massive electoral victory on Tuesday in Florida, Florida 13. And I’ll be damned if the Republican establishment is not doing its best in high gear to tell everybody, “Hey, don’t think that Obamacare was the main factor here.”
It is becoming clear to me — not that it needs to be any more clear — that the Republican establishment does not want to run against Obamacare. Karl Rove has a column today. Karl Rove is on TV this morning on Fox, but there are others in the Republican establishment saying, “Hey, hey! You know, it wasn’t just about Obamacare,” and I’ve heard other members in the Republican establishment say that David Jolly did not say repeal."
"Who said anybody was gonna run "just on Obamacare," anyway? But the fact is that both parties are cautioning Republican candidates, "You better not focus on repealing Obamacare! You better focus on fixing it, and you better focus on something besides Obamacare. You can't just win by talking about Obamacare." Both parties are telling Republican candidates this.And in such defeatist warnings, House GOP leaders are going one step further and effectively handing vulnerable Democrats an Obamacare gift this coming election cycle. WHY?!
It happens that it flies in the face of some of the most obvious logic that has ever been in politics. Obamacare is one of the biggest negatives any politician has ever been saddled with. Obamacare is one of the biggest negatives any political party has ever been saddled with. It is an absolute, utter, total failure and disaster. There isn't anybody recommending it. The Democrats can't even put together, with any credibility, a fake video of happy citizens touting the benefits of Obamacare.
They know it wouldn't be credible. That's how bad it is.
Even the best liars in the world can't come up with a fake ad campaign with fake citizens touting how great their lives are now because of Obamacare, 'cause nobody would believe it -- and in the middle of all this, we are being cautioned and warned, "Do not think you can win by simply opposing Obamacare!" Immediately after this guy did just that, they come out and tell us, "Don't think you can do it."
It's really odd, folks."
NJ: Another week in Congress, another vote to change or stop Obamacare.Unbelievably boneheaded and rudderless...but that's the contemporary modus operandi of the Republican establishment.
While these Republican-backed measures—now up to more than 50—are opportunities for Republicans to keep up their drumbeat against a law they believe has detrimental effects, they also have another curious outcome: They can help vulnerable Democrats facing tough reelection battles.
Take Rep. Joe Garcia, a Democrat representing a swing district in Florida. He is against a full repeal of Obamacare. But the wave of House votes in recent months from Republicans to alter the health care law, such as delaying the tax penalty for not purchasing insurance, have given Garcia the opportunity to provide a more nuanced voting record when it comes to the Affordable Care Act than simply supporting it.
Are those opportunities helpful? "Thank you, Speaker Boehner," Garcia says.
By all accounts, the party is broken and desperately requires new leadership for any hope of repair. We know it, like the federal system on whole, won't fix itself, so will the Republican electorate come together and demand a change at the ballot box this primary season? That's what must happen to revitalize the party of Lincoln, Coolidge and Reagan.
