The GOP is losing their message. In record time.
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Posted On: 02/04/2017 5:18:42 PM
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The GOP is losing their message. In record time.
The GOP is actually starting to make me crack up with some of the silly stuff they’ve been saying lately. Not Der Gropinfuhror, he is both toxic and dangerous, especially where foreign affairs are involved.
I’m talking about run of the mill, line Republicans. Did you catch the way John McCain tried to walk between raindrops yesterday? Trying to show how stupid Mein Furor was in picking a fight with the Prime Minister of Australia, without actually directly criticizing “The Man” himself. Groucho Marx couldn’t have done it better.
But, by far and away, the Gold Medal winner in the backpedaling my ass off, mealy mouthed political speak category is Paul Ryan.
The entire GOP has spent the last 6+ years promising to repeal and replace Obamacare if they ever got the reins of power. Now they have those, but no replacement to show for it.
Last Friday, based on pressure from insurance companies and other GOP sources, suddenly “repeal and replace Obamacare” was amended to “repair Obamacare”.
That went over like the original lead balloon. By Monday, Ryan was “put on notice” by the Tea Party base that anything less than at least a carbon copy of the 2015 bill that actually made it to Obama’s desk, to be vetoed, would lead to open mutiny.
Which led Ryan to yet another circus contortionist verbal act yesterday, stating that the GOP objective had not changed, that it was still to “repeal, replace. and repair Obamacare”. There’s just one problem there. One of those words is mutually exclusive.
If you “repeal” something, there is no need to “repair” it, it is wiped off of the books. And if you “repeal and replace” something, by logical definition the replacement should be superior, there should be no “repair” necessary!
These verbal gymnastics from Paul Ryan are not very likely to get him a bunch of 10.0’s from the judges, and a gold medal.
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