My wife's uncle (a Republican) speaks some truth

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14. The funny thing is reading that

I questioned whether he was a Republican. Then I remembered a time when Republicans were actually about smaller government and not Looney Tunes like they are today.

I don't agree with the 2008 election analysis though. That election was in an environment where Bush had burned the country to the ground, and no Republican was winning.

But the Obamacare stuff is spot on. They don't really worry it will fail. When has any political party ever worried that the opponents passed a crappy law that is going to fail and hang like an albatross around their neck for generations? Yes, Republicans are trying to save the Democrats from themselves, and in order to do so, they are willing to destroy the American and Global economy. That makes sense.

In reality, they are trying to save themselves from being the party that opposed a popular law, and that's what it will be. 20 years from now, when Health Care is ubiquitous, they will be on the wrong side of history. They know this already. So the only option is to completely dump the law and start over. It can never be allowed to survive in any form. The reasonable thing to do would be to leave the law mostly intact, and amend issues with it that come up later. Or, even now. The law is far from perfect. If they passed things that changed parts of the law and "fixed" it, it would actually have a good chance of passing and being signed into law. But they can't do that, because doing so would leave Obama with credit, and they can't allow that to happen. That's why it has always been "repeal and replace...with the same exact law." Ironically, they created this situation by calling it Obamacare. He's now tied to it, it will help millions of people. Obviously, hiccups will happen and the law will be modified in the future, but it is now forever tied to Obama, and it will never go away. Obama has his legacy, and ultimately positive one, and that is what the Republicans have been railing against. The law itself is docile. It's what the law will symbolize, a major accomplishment for a Democratic president, that they are trying to prevent.