Do Republicans have a plan for the country? The answer is ‘no’.

[applegrove]

Do Republicans have a plan for the country? The answer is ‘no’.

By Eugene Robinson at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eugene-robinson-what-would-republicans-do/2014/10/30/daba9d2a-6070-11e4-91f7-5d89b5e8c251_story.html

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There’s nothing new or dishonorable about running against the policies of an unpopular president. But Republicans aren’t actually running against Obama’s policies in any meaningful way. Instead, they are conducting a campaign of atmospherics. Be afraid, they tell voters. Be unhappy. Be angry.

For the activist far right — already brimming with fear, anxiety and ire to spare — GOP candidates promise to obliterate Obama’s most significant achievement, the Affordable Care Act. This pledge has always been shamefully dishonest. Even if Republicans capture the Senate and manage to pass one of the umpteen House bills repealing all or part of Obamacare, the president will simply veto the measure. Do even the most fervent right-wingers believe Obama will ever, under any circumstances, sign legislation doing away with landmark reforms that bear his name ?

Republicans talk about “repeal and replace” but feel no obligation to elaborate on the “replace” part. If they were being honest, they would admit that the need to keep the consumer-friendly parts of Obamacare — especially the provision forbidding insurance companies to deny coverage because of pre-existing conditions — would require them to enact a program that would be virtually identical, although it would surely have a different name. Maybe they’d call it “Not Obamacare.”

What else do Republicans say they would do? Nothing, really, that you can put your finger on.




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[randys1]

1. Yes but it is worse than that, sadly, not only do they have no vision or positive platform

they intend to shut down the government and harm as many Americans as possible

count on it

[locdlib]

2. of course hey have a "plan." Their "plan" consists of making everything all white, I mean right,

just like it was back in the good ole days when old rich white men told everyone what to do and when to do it. take away voting rights, take away women's right to choose, take away health care, pay shitty wages at dead-end jobs . . . you know, the good ole days. Where is that sarcasm stamp? I really needed it for this post.

[applegrove]

3. Well said.

[Maedhros]

4. They want to transform the United States into a banana republic,

in which the rich resource- and land-owners live behind gates and walls, protected by armed security forces, while the rabble toil endlessly for peanuts to prop up the status quo.

[hifiguy]

5. The Repukes do have an end game.

No doubt about it. It is called "feudalism."