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And then what?
Just saying no is not going to be anymore of a plan than it has been to date. I can agree that the hostility toward Obamare creates a perfect scenario for a one-two punch. Except the two is lacking. The view that obamacare is just an unruly animal that can be killed and then everything goes away is not one that I share. It just feeds into the public perception that the republicans really dont want health reform, they just want to stop obamacare. So they are forced between a crap plan that is doomed to fail or doing nothing which is another way to fail.
The polls show that people want health reform, they just dont want Obamacare. The polls also clearly show that even though they increasingly have no use for democrats that have as little or no use for republicans. It is easy to want to think that people are saying they want what we have now and everyone hates democrats now so that must mean they love Republicans more. They dont. It is a mess but leaders have become leaders by stepping into messes and providing leadership. Why the christ dont republicans try it and hopefully not frig it up like they did in January.
You want to stop this half-arse madness then you have to switch people off to a better more palatable plan. I have been around on this enough to know that many here do not believe that. Their strategy is to just resist Obama and to watch for any republicans who look like they want to discuss the issue and tear them down too because that will help make everything go away. Meanwhile, Obama and Pelosi have advanced their cause considerably and have had a major win. That is a fact. We can get ballsy and say that November is going to straighten everything out. Fine. Then what, 2012. Meanwhile rates and costs willl continue to spiral upward so fast that the public will hand Obama any authority he wants to implement crisis measures.
It is nuts. Message to Repubicans: Get a brain and get a strategy.
Frigging idiots.
