Conservatism failed and social democracy won.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Let the recriminations begin! Actually, the health-care-failure finger-pointing got under way well before Friday, when Donald Trump and Paul Ryan cancelled a House vote on the American Health Care Act. A day earlier, aides to the President let it be known that he had come to regret going along with Ryan’s idea of making health care his first legislative priority.

In the coming days and weeks, there will be more of this blame shifting, and, in truth, there is plenty of blame to go around. Ryan failed to unify the House Republican caucus. Trump’s staff allowed him to endorse a bill that made a mockery of his campaign pledge to provide health insurance for everybody. And Trump himself blundered into a political fiasco, apparently believing he could win over recalcitrant Republican members of Congress simply by popping over to Capitol Hill.

But this is just politics. The larger lesson here is that conservatism failed and social democracy won. After seven years of fulminating against the Affordable Care Act and promising to replace it with a more free-market-oriented alternative, the House Republicans—who are in the vanguard of the modern conservative movement—failed to come up with a workable and politically viable proposal. Obamacare survived, and that shouldn’t be so surprising. When it comes to health-care policy, there is no workable or politically viable conservative alternative.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/the-health-care-debacle-was-a-failure-of-conservatism?intcid=mod-latest

[yeoman6987]

1. I can't imagine that the repugs won't draft another bill and give it another try

I know bannon is drafting one now. We'll I don't but wouldn't be shocked.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. Maybe they are masochists and want another public humiliation.

[yallerdawg]

2. Just like we Democrats repeatedly find out,

the Republicans just found out a more centrist, less extreme positioning is where consensus and governance lies.

Just like we can't get socialized healthcare, they can't get a privatized, free market healthcare.

Isn't it funny that everyone rants and raves and gets nowhere, and what we have - "Obamacare" - is really pretty close to a middle ground?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Any adult who wears his baseball hat backwards

is a fucking dork.