GOP establishment eager to act on Democrats agenda/caption
Besides the certainty of death and taxes it seems Democratic-passed entitlements never really end. For context the President has rightfully proclaimed Obamacare a disgrace to our nation." Furthermore after cutting off the Obama administrations illegal subsidies to the insurance companies (known as Cost-Sharing Reduction (CSR) payments) Trump added its virtually dead" but is it?
Well it would be if the Republican establishment would finally honor 7 years of broken promises to repeal and replace Obamacare. Yet just days after these latest developments whats Congresss response? Enter the touted bipartisan Alexander-Murray bill. A deal" to legally fund Obamacarethe governmental behemoth that appropriated 1/6 of the U.S. economyfor another two years! A grand trick on the American people: Obamacare is undead for Halloween!
Thats rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic folks. For progressives thats vitally past the midterm elections giving the GOP nothing of substance to run on. That in turn will likely give Democrats control of the Senate. In other words the same anti-Trump obstructionistswhose party created this health-care mess in the first placewill be back in charge. The horror gets worse. This Republican stop-gap" measure wastes time; adds another 14 billion to the nations escalating 20 trillion dollar debt; and can be hung around Donald Trumps neck in 2020.
David L. Hunter is an Associate Editor at Capitol Hill Outsider. Hes on Twitter and blogs at davidlhunter.blogspot.com. He is published in The Washington Post The Washington Times FrontPage Mag and extensively in Patriot Post Canada Free Press and American Thinker.