They had 8 years - 8 fucking years - to come up with a replacement for

[KingCharlemagne]

the ACA. They did not do it and still cannot do it. They are manifestly unfit to govern.

[MFM008]

1. Gang that

Couldn't shoot straight.

[KingCharlemagne]

4. Breathtaking incompetence. I mean, just staggering. - nt

[cilla4progress]

2. It was all a huge feint all along

Anyone surprised?

It's not so hard to recognize a serious adult, when one is encountered.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Braindead and heartless

Unfit. Inept. Blinded by toxic ideology.

[KingCharlemagne]

5. Utterly and completely bankrupt. Just unbelievable. - nt

[unblock]

6. their plan was always to repeal the taxes on the rich and hang to poor out to die.

when the aca passed in the first place, they complained that it would create a big new federal program with a big new constituency and be hard to repeal later.

they were actually right about something for a change, but they made it sound like having a big constituency of well-served americans is a bad thing....

[Achilleaze]

7. republican FAIL sucks for Americans

The repubes' russian buddies might like it, but for Americans it sucks.

[Tanuki]

8. GOP, you had one job. One job!

http://youhadonejob.org/

[Johonny]

9. More to the point-what they've tried to pass isn't a replacement

It's basically a partial repeal which creates more problems and solves none of the ACA's existing problems. It's exactly how not to do government.

[KingCharlemagne]

10. It's utterly breathtaking in its incompetence and sheer ineptitude. - nt

[The_Casual_Observer]

11. This is what happens when rw AM radio rant is put into practice for real.

It never works.

[HipChick]

12. It's the Dems fault though..

[dembotoz]

13. shit here is wisconsin they can't even pave the damn roads

healthcare? way over their heads

[Cosmocat]

14. There is an obvious reason they could not come up with anything to replace ACA

It was THEIR FIN HEALTH CARE REFORM.

That this country indulged their lunacy in whipping their zombies into a frenzy over how horrible it was is example #1,000 of flat out stupid this country is.

[Johnny2X2X]

16. Yup

I was just about to post something similar.

This was their plan for the most part. Obama and company made it better so that it would cover more people, but by in large this was the GOP plan conceptually. Obamacare is a market based solution, what the Reps hated about it was the Medicaid expansion.

[Fresh_Start]

15. actually they had 24...since they helped defect HillaryCare back in 1993....

and after telling us that they knew better than the democrats for a quarter of a century..they still have no ideas.

[HughBeaumont]

17. Replacing the ACA with Mercantile CullCare is like trading cardiomyopathy for aneurysms.

This is on all the idiots who thought giving the shooting monkey a machine gun was a great idea in the first place.

[workinclasszero]

18. The republicans only exist to stop democrats from improving the country

And to steal every last dime we have and give it to the filthy rich.

Everything else they claim to stand for is a baldfaced lie for the suckers in the fox 'news' bubble.

[mercuryblues]

19. Since 2011

Republicans have voted 8 times to repeal the ACA in entirety. 54 times they voted to defund or delaying certain aspects of it. Knowing full well that Obama would veto it.

Now that they have all 3 houses of government, a repeal only bill would be signed by the acting president, they can't get the 50 votes needed.

When their vote was for show everyone was all in. Now that it actually means something the can't get the votes.

[Adrahil]

20. Here's a secret.....

.... some of them KNOW that we need major health care reform. The "repeal and replace" mantra was an act for the rubes for them. The mushy middle of the GrOPers have no idea what they want. They are driven by emotion, not policy. Telling people they can have better at lower cost while eliminating protections and fracturing markets is insane. It is a lie and always was.

[progressoid]

21. It was just a talking point to rile up their base.

[moondust]

22. "Repeal" was and still is less about health care

and more about racists asserting their superiority by trashing the work of the minority President and his party.

[panader0]

23. Who knew health care was so complicated?

[Initech]

24. They don't give a fuck about replacing the ACA.

The reason they're doing it is out of pure spite for liberal ideals because they don't have anything that works. The democrats are Stark Industries,, the republicans are Hammer Tech.

[tblue37]

25. They were counting on Hillary winning and being in a position to veto their stupid repeal bills.

It was always Kabuki theater, performed for their rabid base. They never expected to have their bluff called.

[atreides1]

26. They never intended to replace it!

And they aren't interested in governing...they want to rule over us, in much the same way that Putin rules over Russia!!!

The Republicans want to be oligarchs and want to do away with all the trappings of a Democratic Republic, to include the US Constitution!!!

[Warpy]

27. Whaddya mean replacement? They just wanted to give that black guy a bloody nose

by repealing the best part of his legacy. These are very primitive people, acting on primitive impulses. They lack the capacity to plan, to test, to evaluate, and to implement---in other words, to govern.

The problem is that so many people in this country have been propagandized into being simpletons and spiteful fuckheads just like them. They won't notice there is no plan and no alternative until all the hospitals in their area shut down.

And they will. And they won't get them back.

[procon]

28. 8 years of 😖 lying and grandstanding 😖 does not qualify as good governance. nt

[KingCharlemagne]

29. I have little to add to all the excellent responses that came to my OP. Many of

those responses constitute the seeds of good OPs of their own and I strongly encourage those who are so inclined to build out their responses. Really impressed by the caliber of response here. Thanks!