Marsha Blackburn, Republican Congresswoman from Tennessee, was interviewed on TV a couple of weeks ago. She was talking about plans to repeal and replace Obamacare. She made two statements that astounded me.
First, when questioned about the disruption that repealing Obamacare might cause, she said that there were some good features that would be retained.
Really?
After Republicans have insisted that Obamacare was rammed down the country's throat without Republican input or votes, declared to be a complete failure, blamed for all the ills in the health care system and they tried to repeal it dozens of times because it was beyond repair, I was amazed to hear Representative Blackburn say Obamacare has some good features that the Republicans would like to retain.
When questioned further about these Obamacare features that she would retain, she explained with a wry smile, that they were actually originally Republican ideas that were included in Obamacare.
REALLY!
After six years of hyperbole about how bad and worthless Obamacare is, now you want to take credit for its "good" features?
Actually, she is correct. There were a lot of features in Obamacare that, at one point, could rightly be called Republican ideas. They only became vile when Democrats included them in the legislation. The individual mandate, which Republicans still despise, was also an idea conservatives had once supported.
So now that it is their turn to govern, they want to make sure that they, the Republicans, get credit for all the good features they will keep from Obamacare.
There are dirty, low-down, ornery liars and hypocrites and then there are Republicans.
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