GOP distances itself from Trump's ObamaCare attacks

[riversedge]

Source: the hill





By Peter Sullivan - 05/03/19 06:00 AM EDT



Congressional Republicans don't want to talk about attacks on ObamaCare. But President Trump isn't making that easy.

The Trump administration on Wednesday filed its official legal argument calling for the entirety of the Affordable Care Act to be struck down, once again thrusting the issue back in the spotlight at a time when GOP lawmakers are trying to turn the page.

Republicans would much rather focus on criticizing the “Medicare for all” proposal backed by more and more Democrats, something they see as a winning line of attack compared to reigniting an ObamaCare debate that contributed to the GOP losing its majority in the House last year.

Trump, though, is not playing along with that strategy; instead, he is keeping up his attacks on ObamaCare in court and in his speeches.................

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/441897-gop-distances-itself-from-trumps-obamacare-attacks

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I am hoping Trump brings down the Repugs with him.

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[Iliyah]

1. Why?

GOPers are allowing him the destroy the country and people's lives anyways. What is the difference?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. After 2020 GOP will disown tRump & fall over themselves in a rush to say they never supported him.

Just like people who admitted voting for Nixon were as rare as hen's teeth in 1974 and 1976, despite having won a landslide in 1972.

[Strelnikov_]

10. It will be like a scene from 1984

"Red Don was bad . . . Red Don was always bad . . . Red Don was a DEMOCRAT . . . a LIBERAL . . . "

Plus side, the abandonment will crush Red Don. I don't look for him to survive more than a few years following his fall.

[groundloop]

4. As always, the GOPers only care about winning elections

They finally figured out that more and more people support the Affordable Care Act and that they'll lose votes if they go against it. Since it was implemented by a Democrat they'd rather just let it fade from memory, but of course Tiny wants to destroy anything that President Obama had a hand in creating.

[McCamy Taylor]

5. Are you really asking why?

The math is simple. If you are GOP in a area that has done well with the ACA--like California or any of the other states that took the Medicaid expansion--your constituents will lost insurance if Trump prevails and you (the GOP Congressman) will lose your next election.

Trump, on the other hand is trying to court the electoral votes of states that did not take the expansion, meaning his base in these states does not have any health insurance to lose. They would love nothing better than to see people in other states lose their health insurance, because Trump supporters are basically dicks who would rather see someone else suffer than vote in their own self interest. Plus, if Trump appears to be going against his own party, it makes him look more mavericky.

[watoos]

7. Now that's some pretty twisted logic.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Always remind voters it is the Trump-Republicon Party. Otherwise known as Grumpy Old Privilege. . nt

[watoos]

6. His siphilis is spreading.

[Mc Mike]

8. 2020 Repug campaign slogan: "I'm (not) With Stupid".

[Strelnikov_]

11. Well done n/t

[Mc Mike]

17. Thanks, Strel. nt.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Nice try

Trump is stuck to the GOP like stink on shit.

[dalton99a]

12. Trump is the Republican Party. Hang it around their necks, every goddamn one

[EleanorR]

13. more than 60 times republicans voted to repeal or otherwise dismantle Obamacare

And 7 years they spent supposedly coming up with a wonderful plan of their own. Except they didn't. All politics, no policy.

[FakeNoose]

14. Yes they ARE complicit

[BigmanPigman]

15. BARR IS DOING THIS!

He is doing this right now. Remember the video of Grassley at a town hall last week and how he was confronted by a person who tried to get him to admit he wants to leave people without insurance and how he squirmed. Barr is pushing this through and the GOP is not saying or doing anything to protect us.

[Cha]

16. Kick!