Iowa's GOP senators started leveling with their constituents Tuesday about how incapable Republicans really are when it comes to carrying out the promise they've made for four continuous elections cycles to repeal Obamacare. The New York Times writes:
"You can't repeal it in its entirety," [Sen. Joni] Ernst told reporters after a joint appearance with Grassley in suburban Des Moines.
It was a frank admission from loyal conservatives representing a state Republican Donald Trump carried in November.
The Senate's filibuster rule means that Republicans — who control the Senate with 52 seats — can't repeal the entire law.
"You've got to have 60 votes and we don't have 60 votes at this point," [Sen. Chuck] Grassley said.
Nice excuse. Of course, the reason they can't lure any Democrats on to the bill House Republicans authored is because it stinks to high heaven. A new Morning Consult/Politico poll released Wednesday showed that a plurality of Americans oppose the GOP bill, 47 to 38 percent.
What we have here, folks, is a failure to govern. If Republicans were unified, they could pass a bill through that would go a long way toward crippling Obamacare with a simple party-line vote using reconciliation rules. But they can’t even govern themselves.
That means they need Democratic support, which they can't get because their bill would strip health insurance from too many people.
Too bad their four-cycle repeal pledge didn’t have a giant bolded asterisk next to it: *unless it turns out we’re just too incompetent to repeal it.
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