The Democrats will spend the next several months working with you to "tweak" Obamacare, to fix this or that detail that has not worked out. They want to proclaim that they "saved" Obamacare, if for no other reason than to show you could not pull off a "repeal" as promised. They will declare that you care more about insurance company profits than you do about your constituents -- the citizens of the United States.
My advice to you?
You are suddenly now in the perfect position to turn the tables on the Democrats, deprive them of their key election issue -- and make all your members re-electable heroes instead of political pariahs.
Just as President Obama took Mitt Romney's health-care bill and declared it his own, you should take the Sanders' bill, or some version of Rep. John Conyers' House Bill HR 676, and declare it your own.
That would sure mess up the Democrats' plans, and all next year's campaign strategies.
With the Senate Democrats' refusal to even propose Medicare-For-All (Sen. Sanders finally said as much on the Thom Hartmann show Wednesday, July 12), it would be impossible for the Democrats to insist that a viable health-care program that covers everyone and is fiscally responsible, proposed and passed by the Republican House and Senate this year, was their idea. Even if every last one of them voted for it.
Good-bye Democratic campaign strategy. Hello continued GOP control of House and Senate.
Do it, Mitch. I double dare you.
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