I have a question, and I mean it seriously: Why didn't the Republicans confine themselves to a repeal of Obamacare rather than conjoining it, repeal and replace? We would all just have gone back to health insurance as we had (or didn't have in millions of cases). My recollection (but...you know) is that both Ryan and von Fuckup insisted on repeal and replace, for reasons known only to them. We now see the rotten fruits that fell from that Tree of Thought.
It says here, and more importantly it says elsewhere, written by my betters, that as the Republicans gathered in a D.C. watering hole in 2009 during President Obama's inaugural ball and planned a one-word strategy of "No" to anything that Obama proposed, in order to "prove" that the Black man had failed, so the illegitimate De Facto successor to Obama is now planning to "prove" Obamacare a failure by taking unilateral executive action in an attempt to make it fail, or harder to succeed. De Facto predicted that in the next year Obamacare, which he says now is "imploding," will "explode." It sounds like he has another plan. The New York Times editorial board mused about possible guerrilla action:
"The worry now among advocates for lower-income Americans and the sick is that the Trump administration might seek to undermine the health care law through administrative steps. For example, officials could seek to reduce subsidies that help people earning just above the federal poverty line pay for out-of-pocket costs."
Nicholas Kristof, Times columnist, thought of another:
"Democrats may feel reassured, because ineptitude may impede some of Trump’s worst initiatives. But even if Trump is unable to build, he may be able to destroy: I fear that his health care “plan” now is to suffocate Obamacare by failing to enforce the insurance mandate, and then claim that its spasms are inevitable."
Donald Trump is an evil man. He is a congenital liar, an egomaniac, a traitor, a racist, a sexist; he is violent, a bully, and a sexual predator. He is also unintelligent, incompetent, and impotent. Trump lost today, was humiliated, and he will do anything to avoid responsibility and admit failure. He will follow his instincts and do whatever he can to gut Obamacare, "the law of the land for the foreseeable future."
