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In reply to the discussion: Rand Paul backs bill that could lead to crackdown on states where voters legalized weed [View all]jmowreader
(53,201 posts)Y'see, KamaAina, the Republicans told their business supporters they'd repeal Obamacare so many times, the business supporters believed them and didn't prepare for the law's implementation. And now that it's clear there's no fucking way the law will actually be repealed, the president gave the Republicans' business supporters a little extra time to comply with the law. The GOP doesn't like that, because their next way to repeal the law (besides the daily Obamacare repeal bill they were gonna file anyway) is to let the law put three-quarters of America out of work, which will cause people to vote straight-ticket Republican in November, which will allow the Republicans to impeach the (insert favorite racist name for the president) and get rid of Obamacare that way.
The thing is, if the Republicans would have bothered spending even one-tenth as much effort on job creation or debt reduction that they spent on getting rid of a law people are starting to like, there would be so many jobs in the US everyone'd need to have two if we wanted to use them all up. That wouldn't be acceptable because people only vote Republican when things are bad.