A collection of centrist House Republicans are threatening to torpedo Boehner’s plan to send the Senate a third continuing resolution that attacks Obamacare, National Review reports.
Peter King, a leader of the group:
“If Obamacare is as bad as we say it’s going to be, then we should pick up a lot of seats in the next election and we should win the presidency in 2016,” King said Monday. “This idea of going through the side door to take something you lost through the front door—to me, it’s wrong.”
No fucking shit. But the reason why Speaker Joe McCarthy, er ah, I mean Calgary, no I mean Texas Senator Ted Cruz and all his teabag radicals have been freaking out this past year since they lost the 2012 election in a relative landslide is because they know Obamacare is going to work, and they know once it works, it will never be repealed, just like Medicare, just like Social Security. And that is the way our democracy is supposed to work. A party proposes something, wins a national election, enacts their policies that they were elected to enact through the proper constitutional process, and then faces the people gain for their verdict. Guess what? That election was held. Guess what the verdict was. A reelected President with over 330 electoral votes, with over 51% of the vote. Democrats in the Senate gained two seats. Democrats in the House gained 10 seats, and won the popular vote in all House Districts by 2 million votes. So, Obamacare will go into affect tomorrow and nothing will stop it. Nothing. If it fails, then Peter King is right. The Republicans will have their issue to run on in 2014 and 2016. And they might win those elections. And that is the way this is supposed to work.