Washington Post columnist and perpetual MSNBC guest Eugene Robinson lives in a fantasy world where everything that Republicans do is evil and a failure and everything that Democrats and especially president Obama do is both a work of genius and totally successful. To say the least, I got a chuckle from his column today in which he proclaims the repeal of Obamacare by the House to be not only a faillure but also something that is working against the GOP. According to Robinson, most people who oppose Obamacare actually wanted the public option to be included; they were angry that the bill did not go far enough. I guess that explains why not a single Democrat ran for election last fall on the basis of his or her vote for passage of Obamacare. Robinson also claims that Republicans actually lost on the repeal vote because only three Democrats joined the GOP in voting to get rid of the bill. So that must mean that Robinson considered passage of the bill to have been a defeat since only one Republican voted for it. In other words, Robinson is full of it.
The real truth is that the vote to repeal by the House is a necessary first step towards forcing Obama and the obamacrats to defend the actuality of Obamacare. No longer will the issue be phony rhetorical points. the House GOP can now force a consideration of the real issues. For example, how much of that half trillion dollars of Medicare cuts did the Democrats actually get so far. Here's the answer: NONE!!! So the biggest mechanism for paying for Obamacare has so far been a phony. Maybe it would do best to call it what it really was: a blatant lie. I look forward to hearing Kathleen Sibelius explain why there have yet to be any savings nearly a year after passage of the law and where she is going to make up the amounts that were supposed to have been saved by now.
The left loves to talk about speaking truth to power. for the next two years, the mission of the GOP has got to be to force power to speak the truth. It will not be easy. Obama and the Obamacrats are the ultimate propagandists. To paraphrase Will Rodgers, they never met a lie they did not like. It will be interesting to watch this.
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While I offer no view on the wisdom (or lack therof)of Eugene Robinson, the vote in the House was a total waste of time and money. The health bill (ObamaCare) is not going to be abolished. The Republicans would be better off representing the citizens by coming in with improvements to the bill. The vote to abolish the entire bill was a waste of taxpayers money and time when we don't have much of either. The political parties ought to do something constructive versus postering.
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