The Cowardice of Their Convictions

[rangerrebew]

The Cowardice of Their Convictions
Derek Hunter
 
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Posted: Mar 26, 2017 12:01 AM
The Cowardice of Their Convictions
 

There isn’t an elected Republican in the House of Representatives who didn’t run on repealing Obamacare. Every Republican in the House last year voted in favor of repealing the law, as did every Republican in the Senate. They put that bill on President Barack Obama’s desk, he vetoed it, as they knew he would, and they claimed a moral victory for keeping a campaign promise.

But empty promises are easy to keep; it’s leading that is hard.

Leadership of the principled variety was lacking in government this week at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. President Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan were so interested in passing something on the issue of health care they were willing to support anything. Arms were t

https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2017/03/26/the-cowardice-of-their-convictions-n2304253

[Sanguine]

Bears repeating:
 

Missing from the discussions and debate was the Constitution and the fact the federal government has no business being involved in health insurance in the first place.

[skeeter]

Bears repeating:

This is why all of the bleating about the 'compromises' made to conservatives in Ryan's failed  bill are utterly embecilic.

[EasyAce]

From the article:

Democrats believed they could control the market through regulations, taxes and mandates. As we suffer through
that reality, Republicans didn’t so much propose to strip it away as they did to replace it with their version. A differently
bastardized market is still a bastardized market. Better nothing than the something Republican leadership tried to push
through.

That Democrats would seek to control people and markets is no surprise – it’s what they do and they’re quite open about
it. The Republican Party is supposed to be the opposite – in favor of free markets and advocates for individual liberty. On
paper, at least.

For seven years we heard how they’d repeal Obamacare just as soon as they had the ability to do so. They now do, but they
didn’t because they couldn’t agree about what to replace it with. How about replacing it with what the Constitution allows for:
nothing.

The reality is most Republicans are conservatives only when it comes time for elections. Their rhetoric of “repealing Obamacare
and replacing it with a free market solution” was really just replacing one federally managed monstrosity with another. Sure,
it might be smaller, but the concept remained – Washington is in charge.

(Emphasis added.)

Nice going, gang. Can't wait to see what your idea of "tax reform" is going to be.

[DB]

I've been saying it for some time now, just a different flavor of big government. Voting for either is just voting for more big government.

[EasyAce]

I've been saying it for some time now, just a different flavor of big government. Voting for either is just voting for more big government.

It's been that way for a couple of decades and maybe more.

Nobody wanted to listen then, either.

[Bigun]

From the article:

(Emphasis added.)

Nice going, gang. Can't wait to see what your idea of "tax reform" is going to be.

@EasyAce

You MAY get a small and likely very temporary tax cut and damned little if any actual tax REFORM!

[EasyAce]

@EasyAce

You MAY get a small and likely very temporary tax cut and damned little if any actual tax REFORM!

Yeah, and I may be named the next commissioner of baseball, too. ;)