Once upon a time when I was a young man working on Capitol Hill, it was commonplace that when a bill became law, everybody was unhappy with it. And if he does not defund Obamacare, we leave the whole thing shut down.” Our endgame is to leave the whole thing shut down until the President defunds Obamacare. They don’t realize our compromise is defunding Obamacare. Democrats keep talking about our refusal to compromise. “Congressmen, this is about shutting down Obamacare. Here was their order of the day on Thursday from the popular right wing blog : Now they’re fighting to prevent it from being implemented. Yet even after both the House and Senate approved it, the president signed it, and the Supreme Court upheld it, the Republicans keep insisting on calling the law a “bill,” thumbing their noses and refusing to accept that it is enacted legislation. And as The New York Times reported this week, “Millions of Poor Are Left Uncovered by Health Law.” Largely because states controlled by Republicans refuse to expand Medicaid.Īs far as our bought and paid for legislative process goes, Obama’s initiative made it through the sausage factory. Big subsidies to the health insurance industry. So we should be clear on this, Obamacare, as it’s known, is deeply flawed. They lost that fight, but with the corporate wing of Democrats, they managed to bend it toward private interests. Nonetheless, they fought tooth and nail to kill President Obama’s health care initiative.

Republicans have now lost three successive elections to control the Senate and they’ve lost the last two presidential elections. Unable to abide by the results of democracy when they don’t win, they turned on it. The people who hate government so much they’ve shut it down. And now to the people who refuse to let democracy work.

Klepto plutocracy