A big Republican mistake? 

As a Republican, I find it hard to write this… but I must. Here we have domination through a Republican House, a Republican Senate and a (nominally) Republican president.

But they are stumbling really badly trying to repeal and replace Obamacare. They have a really, really dumb strategy.

Here’s what I said in a speech years ago when I ran for Congress. If they had thought it through they would have used this method and this “problem” would have been resolved.

The “problem” is repeal and replace in a single bill. As I wrote above, I was asked about Obamacare as a candidate. I said that there needed to be two bills.

The first repealed Obamacare, effective March 31st of the following year after the new congress was in session. Why March 31? Think about it.

The second bill would be the replace component. Here’s why I would have done it this way.

With a dominant party, and that (almost) every Republican wanted to repeal Obamacare, that part would have been easily accomplished. The replace part would have been harder, but it would have forced the Democrats to negotiate with the Republicans as to what wording was in the replace part.

If they refused, the Republicans could have used that refusal to replace more Democrats at the mid-terms saying that they didn’t care about the public. As you know (or maybe don’t), the most important thing to a congressperson is being reelected. That means they would negotiate, or lose their jobs.

Problem solved. Sadly, I didn’t win, or this repeal and replace in a single bill would have never reared its ugly head.

So the Republicans made a big mistake in combining two bills into one. Do you agree? I’ll let you decide.