How will the GOP feel once the HC bill is passed and the fixes make it through reconciliation?

[tridim]

[larkrake]

1. screwed

[Zoeisright]

2. They'll act like they always do. Lie, lie some more, pout, and whine.

Then call names, lie some more, and throw a temper tantrum. Just like a really spoiled 2-year-old.

[Warpy]

3. After they take credit for it all

they'll dig in their Gucci heels for the next fight, whether employment or banking regulation.

C'mon, we know these people. Their only reason to exist is to deprive Democrats of everything they can. It's a sad, limited existence but it's all they have.

[Political Heretic]

4. Other. Privately, they will be praised and rewarded by their corporate sponsors

For their help in undoing something that could have potentially brought and end to corporations reign of plunder and exploitation in health care and instead transforming it into a vehicle of their continued exploitation and price gouging.

Publicly, they expect reform to "fail" in the long run - because it is written in such a way as to not control costs of care or even premiums, or provide substantive regulation or close loopholes in denials of care or policy terminations all while mandating universal coverage.

So while they will be disappointed that they couldn't completely defeat Obama's agenda, they will be more than pleased that the successfully manipulated the bill to a point where its effectively harmless to corporations. It also has a secondary benefit: it sets of the push for the privatization of medicare.

So I think that those in the GOP leadership, connected to the bigger picture of their interests will feel a mixture of success and failure. Obviously the grand slam would have been to defeat Obama's agenda completely. But what they've managed to accomplish in derailing any truly meaningful long term reform - its like hitting a double, maybe even a triple in baseball.

[deaniac21]

5. How will we feel?

[tridim]

7. There's another poll in GD:P asking that question..

My poll is a copycat. :)

[HopeHoops]

6. The country doesn't have enough waaaaaaaaambulances to handle them all.

[Lil Missy]

8. Who cares. n/t

[yourout]

9. Fucked if it has a decent PO. Otherwise we just handed them the Senate.

[Sebastian Doyle]

10. If it's the current corporate mandate shitfest, they will make a pretense of public outrage.

And behind closed doors, privately celebrate another victory for corporate corruption. :puke: