Sickie

This guy.

House Speaker Paul Ryan bragged yesterday that the House was able to pass a bill repealing the Affordable Care Act by a comfortable majority (but not enough to produce an override), with the Senate having already passed it by a bare majority.  Although President Obama did in fact veto it, Ryan noted that, with a Republican Congress in place this time next year and a Republican President in charge, repeal of "Obamacare" is already assured.

Maybe not.  I'm increasingly convinced that the next President will be a Republican - the Democratic Party establishment is hell-bent on nominating Hillary Clinton, who can't win a general election to save her career because she's too damn polarizing, even in her own party - but I'm not so convinced that a Republican Congress will be able to repeal the health care law that easily.  First of all, the Democrats, though on the verge of heading down the road the Whigs ended up taking in the mid-1850s, may regain the Senate this November.  But even if the GOP takes over everything in the elections, the Affordable Care Act is too entrenched to repeal.  No less a die-hard liberal than David Brooks (joke!) pointed that out.  While a Republican President might try to change the law, so might a Democrat, given some of the imperfections in the legislation.  But repeal it altogether?  As much as I believe that the law didn't go far enough, there's too much invested in it to get rid of it entirely, and Bernie Sanders even wants to expand it into a single-payer system for everyone.

Republicans say they want to repeal and replace Obamacare, but they don't talk so much about the latter action.  Replace it with what?  They don't have a plan.  They only want to get rid of affordable medical insurance to benefit a few at the expense of many.  Their only plan is, as Alan Grayson famously put it is, "Don't get suck, and if you do, die quickly."  Ryan is as twisted and horrid in denying people affordable health care as the governor of his state.  Ryan is from Wisconsin.

And if Martin O'Malley doesn't make it to the White House, I'll at least take comfort in the fact that Scott Walker won't.  No Republican - not even Trump - is as bad as the Führer of der Wiskonseinsches Reich.