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Redstate
Follow the Law
By Erick Erickson
October 25th, 2013
Vladimir Lenin is
said to have observed, “the worse, the
better,” meaning the worse things got for Russians the better it was
for the
communists.
Lately, the left
has taken to calling conservatives
“Leninists” for our refusal to fix Obamacare.
The implicit
acknowledgement here is that Obamacare is going
to make things worse, despite their claims to the contrary.
No conservative
wants things to get worse. We just know
things will get worse. Obamacare will be deeply destructive. People are
already
seeing it. The only way Obamacare would ever work is if people behaved
irrationally. It is a system that requires the young to go out and by
their own
insurance, but allows them to stay on their parents’ insurance until
they are
well into their twenties. The law operates only if people do not behave
like
people.
Republicans should
be opposed to any and all fixes of
Obamacare. The GOP should not lift even half a finger to accommodate
Democrat
demands for changes. The Democrats planned and implemented Obamacare
without a
single Republican vote. They made clear they did not need the votes.
They used
a budgetary procedure in the Senate to get around a filibuster after
the people
of Massachusetts sent a Republican in Ted Kennedy’s steed to try to
stop it.
So the Democrats
can own it. They can own every deleted
application, every delayed entry into the website, every denial of
insurance,
every decline in full time work, and every denial of care that comes
from this
horrible law.
The Democrats can
own it all.
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