“If I don’t get my way I’m gonna hold my breath till I turn blue and die!”
Or some variation thereof.
Am I talking about children? Of a sort. I’m talking about congressional Republicans, actually, because that’s about what this current confrontation amounts to.
Very simply, there is a rock-solid block of opposition to President Obama that can only be described as perverse. Nothing he does is acceptable to a certain cadre of these folks, even if it was originally an idea from the GOP.
When the ACA was being constructed, they derailed single payer, brought in industry deal-breakers, did everything they could to make sure their constituents (read: Big Pharma, Big Med, etc) continued to receive inordinately large slices of the health care spending pie at the expense of a sane program, and, under Obama’s direction, assembled this lurching Frankenstein critter themselves, and have been bitching about it ever since. …