And still ANOTHER pile!
Your capacity for self-delusion is well-nigh infinite. You're entitled to your opinion, but that doesn't make it in the least bit true. The facts on the ground do not in any way justify or corroborate your views.
Here's another blunt fact: the democrats already have at least one candidate in place and ready to start rallying the troops and convincing the mass of non-partisan voters that they should vote for her, and the republicans don't have a donkey, let alone a race horse, in the works. Instead, the so-called "conservative" wing is dragging the GOP into an ugly little internecine circle jerk, thereby wasting all of the political capital and good will they built up with the electorate. For example, if the Supreme Court rules that people who bought their Obama insurance on a federal exchange can't get subsidies, there is going to be a lot of pain in this country and we must absolutely have a coherent plan to deal with that ready to go. If nothing else, we should go with something similar to the immediate 18 month fix that's being proposed that would effectively leverage off of the current COBRA structure and allow people to keep their current policies at their current, subsidy-adjusted, premiums for 18 months while Congress prepares a comprehensive replacement for Obamacare. The adults in the GOP have already started running proposals up the flag pole, but instead of constructively engaging with the issue - i.e., governing - the so-called "conservatives" are throwing the world's biggest hissy fit.
If they don't stop that immediately, and focus on real issues like dealing with a potential anti-Obamacare ruling, then here is what's going to happen: the democrats will spring their already-prepared solution fully-drafted and ready to go. That will basically involve nothing more than a simple amendment to Obamacare that permits subsidies to be given to everyone, regardless of whether they bought their Obama policies on a state exchange or a federal exchange. It would be simplicity itself because all it would require is adding the phrase "or the federal government" to the end of the statutory provision that's currently the subject of the Supreme Court case.
And when that fails to pass, as it surely will given that republicans control Congress, then the democrats will be able to convincingly portray the republicans as being heartless obstructionists who prefer to play games of ideology rather than taking care of people by fixing the damage wrought by the Supreme Court's ruling.
So please, go right ahead and play pretty little games of ideological assassination to your heart's content, abandoning any pretense to being capable of actually governing in a real world where a lot of people whom you have to work with don't agree with you on all of your policy goals, but the one piece of self-delusion you are not permitted is the delusion that you did not contribute to the democrats' victory in 2016.
