Snatching Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory

Like the dog who chased the car and caught it, only to realize he has no idea what to do with the car, republicans obtained the power to get rid of the unaffordable health care act and now seem to have no idea how to do it. This is one of the most monumental failures orchestrated by any political party, ever, period. This failure redefines the meaning of the word republican in the minds of those of us who thought we knew. We have no idea what the word republican means now but rest assured, unless this failure is somehow fixed, the two words democrat and republican will now basically have the same meaning. Democrats impose something upon us we do not want, republicans will do nothing about it. A large part of the problem seems to the one thing we wanted, repeal, has been expanded to include a second aspect, replace. No one with any sense that was enraged by the government takeover of our free market health care system ever demanded or wanted a replacement. The demand was for repeal, get rid of it, do not replace it. There is no replacement better than what takes over after a full repeal, the free market. So if this embarrassing failure is not reversed who do we vote for to fix things next time? Ask someone else, I do not know. cjpost