GOP tactics on ObamaCare move away from full repeal

The Hill ^ | January 16, 2015 | Sarah Ferris

[C19fan]

Republicans are shifting their tactics on ObamaCare, an abrupt change from the party’s repeal-only rhetoric that dominated the last five years of debate.

The GOP is coalescing around the idea that incremental changes, rather than a sweeping repeal effort, can be more appealing to voters — while also holding out the possibility of hollowing out the law from within.

[nothingnew]

Welcome to THE UNIPARTY!!

FMCDH(BITS)

[itsahoot]

Say the cognoscenti with nose in the air after their 20th consecutive year of missing primaries in which 5.5% of the eligible voters voted

I vote it just doesn't seem to matter.

They told me if I voted for Goldwater the war in Vietnam would accelerate. I did, it did. See how that works?

[Hardens Hollow]

“55 years a republican-Now Independent”

Same here, but 25+ years.

[Drew68]

end the subsidies and mandates for one

Yeah, I suppose that might work. The biggest problems politicians have now is that some people are getting royally screwed by Obamacare, while others are benefiting greatly. And to complicate matters, those getting screwed and those getting hooked up don't necessarily break down by party lines. In short, some Democrat voters loath the ACA while some Republican voters love it.

It's all a matter of whose ox is getting gored.

I don't really have a dog in this fight. I'm active duty military. I have a Cadillac plan. Health care for me and my family costs me nothing more than gas money. Prescriptions costs me nothing more than time.

[Amagi]

The political elites are all the same.
The repubs were elected to stop the Obama agenda, ObamaCare. Period.
The current federal government offers little hope to the restoration of the limited government principles of the Constitution.
There may only be one solution left.

[i_robot73]

Maybe, because back then, the electorate was more engaged, more read and educated. There WAS no welfare (yes, there was the carpetbagging and crony Capitalism even then)

Maybe, there was still the paper ballot, and though stuffing the box (I’d presume here) was ‘easier’, it was not as prolific as it is today.

Maybe, just maybe, Twain was blowing smoke ;)