Staten Island's Republican Congressman Suddenly Not So Eager To Repeal Obamacare
Pity the poor congressional Republicans. They just don’t realize what they’ve gotten themselves into.
For eight years, they clung to the safety blanket of Barack Obama. As voters in their districts railed against the communist Muslim in the White House, Republicans could promise to do their bidding, voting repeatedly to scrap the Affordable Care Act, the flawed but very real achievement of Obama’s presidency.
House Republicans would vote to repeal Obamacare more than 60 times, building party discipline and shoring up support at home while wasting everyone else’s time. They always knew Obama would come to their rescue with a veto.
After getting elected to an open congressional seat on Staten Island, Dan Donovan got in on the act. The Republican gleefully voted in January 2016 to repeal the ACA. “Obamacare just isn’t working,” Donovan said at the time. “Middle class families in Staten Island and South Brooklyn are already burdened with some of the highest costs of living in the country.”
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