The GOP is losing their message. In record time.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

    The GOP is actually starting to make me crack up with some of the silly stuff they’ve been saying lately. Not Der Gropinfuhror, he is both toxic and dangerous, especially where foreign affairs are involved. I’m talking about run of the mill, line Republicans. Did you catch the way John McCain tried to walk between raindrops yesterday? Trying to show how stupid Mein Furor was in picking a fight with the Prime Minister of Australia, without actually directly criticizing “The Man” himself. Groucho Marx couldn’t have done it better.

    But, by far and away, the Gold Medal winner in the backpedaling my ass off, mealy mouthed political speak category is Paul Ryan. The entire GOP has spent the last 6+ years promising to repeal and replace Obamacare if they ever got the reins of power. Now they have those, but no replacement to show for it. Last Friday, based on pressure from insurance companies and other GOP sources, suddenly “repeal and replace Obamacare” was amended to “repair Obamacare”. That went over like the original lead balloon. By Monday, Ryan was “put on notice” by the Tea Party base that anything less than at least a carbon copy of the 2015 bill that actually made it to Obama’s desk, to be vetoed, would lead to open mutiny.

  Which led Ryan to yet another circus contortionist verbal act yesterday, stating that the GOP objective had not changed, that it was still to “repeal, replace. and repair Obamacare”. There’s just one problem there. One of those words is mutually exclusive. If you “repeal” something, there is no need to “repair” it, it is wiped off of the books. And if you “repeal and replace” something, by logical definition the replacement should be superior, there should be no “repair” necessary! These verbal gymnastics from Paul Ryan are not very likely to get him a bunch of 10.0’s from the judges, and a gold medal.

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[Faux pas]

1. Lyin' cryin' ryan

is a serious danger, someone needs to shake up his district in a big way.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Cryin' lyin' Ryan...

rolls off the tongue better.

[Faux pas]

6. Agreed

[Chasstev365]

2. YES, but the Democrats must make them own the fact that they go along with Trump!

Ruthlessly and relentlessly hang Trump around Republicans necks to drag them down. No mercy!

[Wounded Bear]

4. Yep...and we have about 20 months to keep hammering on it....nt

[spanone]

5. and that tea party base probably likes their ACA coverage and hates Obamacare

dumfux

[peggysue2]

7. Between a Rock and Hard Place

Yes, the GOP has painted itself into a corner because health care is . . . hard, complicated. Repeal and Replace has a certain ring to it but it requires building coalitions within the healthcare industry as a whole: doctors, nurses, the American Medical Association, hospitals, clinics, big Pharma, Insurance companies, medical device people, Wall Street, American business, etc., etc., etc. in addition to the percentage of your electorate who actually depend on the much maligned and dastardly legislation, popularly known as Obamacare but aka the Affordable Care Act, a equivalency about which many Trumpers were unaware.

For six years, the Republicans have screamed REPEAL, only to be exposed as the shrill obstructionists they've always been. There is no plan for the 'replace' part of the chant. And without a replacement the entire health care system would collapse, taking down a good chunk of the American economy (roughly 18%) and leaving the Republican Party the unenviable task of explaining the rhyme and reason for the smoldering wreckage. Ideology of small government or screaming LIBERTY will not cut it for parents of sick children or the ailing elderly or those with pre-existing conditions. Try once again to tell a woman with breast cancer to go to the ER. I dare you!

And so, the chant has now changed to Repeal and Repair. The Tea Party, a group that has always embraced the GOP's wrecking crew instincts, is unlikely to be amused. Guaranteed, if the Republicans tear the healthcare system apart, they alone will bear the wrath of the American public. There's no wiggle room here and changing the wording will not change the result.

[world wide wally]

8. People actually tolerate crap from politicians that they would never tolerate from their own kids

That's why this country is so fucked up when it comes to voting and leadership.
How many times would you allow your kid to lie to you before you did something about it?

[Marthe48]

9. another liar

And yet, somehow these incompetent, ignorant, arrogant lying dicks keep getting elected.

[Cha]

10. The teabaggers and trumps are dumb.. paul ryan knows this.

[coco22]

13. And Paul Ryan,McConnell

Issa,Grassley,King,etc,etc are some evil sumofabitches they hate the country.Like Willard said"Tear em up!"

[jmowreader]

11. We will probably wind up with "Bear Jew Care" instead of "Obamacare"

In Tarantino's World War II revenge porn flick Inglourious Basterds, Adolf Hitler issued an order to all German troops stationed in France: "The Jew degenerate known as the Bear Jew henceforth is never to be referred to as the Bear Jew again." Donny Donowitz is still running around Germany knocking guys' heads in with his baseball bat, but since he's not being called The Bear Jew everything is so much better.

I think the Republicans will take Public Law 111-148 (the ACA), move a few sections around and renumber them all so a quick web search won't prove the new law and the old one are the same law, make a few minor changes to it (selling insurance across state lines seems to be what both The Base and The Insurance Companies most desire; the base wants the mandate gone but the insurers need it to make the rest of the program affordable to them, so it will stay), give it a new name, repeal 111-148 and replace it with their modified version, then make a proclamation that no one is ever to refer to their stunning new plan as Obamacare again.

[yellowcanine]

12. They needed another "R" Repeal,Replace, Repair. Now they have 3 "Rs." Cool.

[alterfurz]

14. resident GOP "intellectual" and fiscal genius Paul Ryan explains his budgetary policy:

"lather, rinse, repeat..."