The promise of repeal is a shiny object to distract the drones in the GOP base.
More than a few Republicans know that while the politics of trying to nitpick provisions and curb funding are appealing, any wholesale repeal of major provisions of the health care overhaul is likely to generate a backlash.
Even the Republican-leaning electorate on Nov. 2 was evenly split on repealing Obamacare, the exit polls showed. And many of the major provisions of the bill command broad support or could expose critics and repeal advocates to embarrassing contradictions.
As Bill Maher astutely observed, the common mantra “We’ll keep the parts we like but repeal the parts we don’t like” (aka those “intrusive measures”), is totally un-serious and indicative of the childishness of our electorate because, of course, the parts of the bill you like are PAID FOR by the parts you don’t like.
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