'Obamacare' turns from GOP uniter to internal divider
Opposition to Obamacare has united the GOP for the past four years, but now it’s threatening to become a central fault line in the party’s simmering civil war.
While still unified on philosophical grounds against President Barack Obama’s signature health care reform law, Republicans are no longer using “Obamacare” to pummel Democrats so much as each other. The divide exists between Republicans engaged in a crusade to repeal the law at all costs and those resigned to accept a government program three years into its implementation.
“There’s a schism between people who want to accept reality and be quiet and let the thing take its course, and another side that makes it into a cause célèbre,” said former Rep. Steve LaTourette, the recently-retired centrist Republican congressman from Ohio.
Some Republicans have begun relenting to the reality that the law is here to stay after numerous failed efforts to repeal it, Obama’s re-election and the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the law’s key provision as constitutional. But a number of Tea Party affiliated conservatives insist the law can be vanquished, even if it means shutting down the government.
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