"The GOP in Fantasyland" by Eugene Robinson at the Washington Post

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The GOP in Fantasyland

by Eugene Robinson at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eugene-robinson-the-gops-shutdown-fantasy/2013/08/22/52697d1a-0b3f-11e3-b87c-476db8ac34cd_story.html?tid=rssfeed

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The make-believe crusade by publicity-hound Republicans to somehow stop Obamacare is one of the most cynical political exercises we’ve seen in many years. And that, my friends, is saying something.

Charlatans are peddling the fantasy that somehow they can prevent the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act from becoming what it already is: the law of the land. Congress passed it, President Obama signed it, the Supreme Court upheld it, many of its provisions are already in force, and others will soon take effect.

No matter how contemptuous they may be about Obamacare, opponents have only two viable options: Repeal it or get over it.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) the Canadian American who appears to be running for president, has grabbed headlines and air time by being the loudest advocate of an alleged third option: Congress could refuse to fund Obamacare, thereby starving it and effectively killing it. This is a ridiculous fantasy, as Cruz, who has brains beneath all that bombast, surely knows.




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[Andy823]

1. Insanity rules the GOP

I thought the crop of GOP clowns in the 2012 election was bad, but this new crop is going to make them look half way sane! I can hardly wait for the GOP comedy show that they call the "primary debates"!

[Thinkingabout]

2. When you compare our healthcare to what France, we shoild be ashamed. They get

Faster healthcare without all the red tape.

[sheshe2]

3. K&R!

Thanks for posting this applegrove~

[Pretzel_Warrior]

4. Kick!

[mick063]

5. Cruz doesn't just toss red meat

He is carving it off the carcass, wearing a bloody apron, and wielding a big bloody knife as well.

He is absolutely unelectable.


Romney gained ground after the first Presidential debate because he moved drastically to the center and caught the President flat footed. The President had prepared to counter Romney's GOP primary platform and not a platform that mimicked his own.

Cruz could not do that. He doesn't campaign in Massachusetts, like Romney did, and isn't well rehearsed or cognizant of what centrists, swing voters want to hear.

In a general election Cruz would still slice chunks off the old carcass and toss it to his extremist groupies. Cruz would run a Texas campaign in New England. Cruz would get crushed.

[Berlum]

7. Teddy Teddy Teddy (R - Great White North)

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[Cha]

6. And, who says "Cruz has brains".. has he

shown one iota of proof of that?

mahalo applegrove~