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Home Front: Politix
White House Objects to Drudge Criticism: GOP Needs Time to Replace ‘Mammoth' Obamacare
2017-02-09
[Breitbart] Online journalist Matt Drudge of the Drudge Report criticized Republicans on Twitter for their sluggish momentum in Washington D.C., suggesting that they be "sued for fraud" after promising immediate action on repealing Obamacare and important tax policy.

Drudge also questioned the Trump administration’s committment to an "executive order targeting ’conflict minerals'" but not getting rid of the Obamacare tax penalty.

"I think it’s hardly stalling," Spicer said, after Breitbart News asked him to react to Drudge’s assessment.
Would it be too much to ask to see a copy of an outline, a preliminary plan ?
He defended the Republican party’s pace on important issues like Obamacare.

"I think it’s a mammoth thing to repeal and replace," Spicer said, reassuring supporters that the president was still committed to his promise.
Posted by:Besoeker

#17  And call it a tax return.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2017-02-09 18:01  

#16  Cut it off without review that's the way it was passed forced down our throats
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2017-02-09 17:00  

#15  I'm fine with that. It's necessary in that it serves as a painful reminder to 'not ever fucking do this again'

That's how communism keeps getting spread. "Oh, it'll never happen to us, we're different!"
Posted by: gorb   2017-02-09 16:14  

#14  Looks like the Bs overlapped a Bit.
Posted by: Bobby   2017-02-09 15:44  

#13  Well that's easy - voting to repeal it knowing it'd never get past the Senate or the POTUS.
Posted by: Bobby   2017-02-09 15:43  

#12  What have they been doing for the past 8 years? Posted by: JohnQC

They voted to repeal Obamacare 52 times without a replacement plan? Little wonder they were defeated 52 times.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-02-09 15:42  

#11  What have they been doing for the past 8 years?
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-02-09 15:35  

#10  An abrupt swinging of the axe could cause chaos in our health care system.

I'm fine with that. It's necessary in that it serves as a painful reminder to 'not ever fucking do this again'.
Posted by: Raj   2017-02-09 13:48  

#9  So, they're seriously thinking about 'replacing' a massively unpopular, expensive and complete fucking failure of a 100% partisan law with... something else?

What's that they say about insanity? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result? It won't fucking work.

Repeal it now, worry about anything later, and leave the Democrats out of it.
Posted by: Raj   2017-02-09 13:46  

#8  I'd guess they had the framework in the file since Clinton, and worked on the mold and cast in earnest about 2005, certainly 2007.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2017-02-09 13:43  

#7  I don't think the ACA was 'jammed out' but carefully crafted to have tendrails everywhere just as SPOD said. Just so it cannot be easily removed without killing the patient.

More like a cancer on our healthcare system.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2017-02-09 13:30  

#6  Well said SPOD.
Posted by: Shipman    2017-02-09 11:48  

#5  ACA is a beast containing everything from loans and incentives for physicians to convert to electronic health records to how doctors are reimbursed under Medicare.

After studying ACA ad nauseum working on my doctorate in health administration, I REALLY want to see this abortion of legislation thrown on the dust bin of history with its namesake. BUT I have to say the legislation is insidious with its "tendrils everywhere". An abrupt swinging of the axe could cause chaos in our health care system.

We need to repeal it but we should do it in a more reasoned, logical, deliberate method than the approach used by Pelosi and Reid to pass it which was to just jamb the thing out without careful regard for its contents. The bill is a mess but repealing it will take months...1100 pages, 15000 employees hired to enforce it, thousands of regulations written to enable it...it is a mess...and you don't clean up a mess without getting some on your hands.

The Pubs need to step up and do some dirty work and leave their standing Thursday lunch reservations at Sans Souci alone.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2017-02-09 11:39  

#4  I fail to see the point in replacing ObummerCare with anything at all. Let the insurance companies compete with each other in the most dog eat dog manner and that will benefit the consumer more than anything the government can possibly do. The constitution does not guarantee health care. The government can only muck it up.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-02-09 11:21  

#3  "I think it’s a mammoth thing to repeal and replace,"

If you repeal it, it doesn't matter how big it is. What will it be replaced by? Something equally mammoth? Hardly sounds like something the feds should get involved with, especially since the Constitution is only four pages long.
Posted by: gorb   2017-02-09 11:15  

#2  A cautious deliberate approach must be incorporated in unasshattering the Obamacare problem. Tendrils everywhere and all that.

But Besoeker is correct - focusing on $ extraction is not a winning strategy.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy   2017-02-09 08:00  

#1  Well gentlemen, when Matt Drudge and others see pubs busying themselves with bullshi* like this, it's little wonder questions arrise:

Senior Republican statesmen propose replacing Obama’s climate policies with a carbon tax
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-02-09 06:00  

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