The First Rule of Being in the Hole is to Stop Digging.

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  by: Urban Snowshoer Sat March 16, 2013 at 9:00 AM MDT

(Promoted by Colorado Pols)

For anyone who has any doubts that CPAC is part of the Republican alternative version reality, look no further than The Washington Post. Senator McConnell told the CPAC audience that the Republican that the party will continue to try to dismantle, or at least weaken, the Affordable Care Act.  He also proclaimed the GOP will ultimately win.

When the constitutionality of Affordable Care Act was challenged the Republicans ended up on the wrong side: the ACA was upheld. Being on the wrong side of a constitutional challenge may not have significantly damaged the party per se; however, the GOP (especially Senator McConnell) did not do wonders for themselves after the Supreme Court upheld the ACA.  

The GOP repeatedly tried to repeal the ACA, even if every attempt was a façade to please the base. Furthermore, the party has also blocked legislation, for the sake of trying to make President Obama and the Democrats in Congress look like they can’t get anything done. The GOP, of course, also ended up on the wrong side of the election.

How much of this “we’re still winning” rhetoric Senator McConnell really believes, versus telling the CPAC audience what they want to hear is hard to say. Either way, the first rule of being in hole is to stop digging. As long as the GOP as a whole continues fighting against the ACA, blocking legislation for the sake of blocking it,  and refusing to comprehend why their candidate lost the presidential election they will just dig themselves deeper.      


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  1. DavieDavie says:
    Sat March 16, 2013 at 4:41 PM MDT

    Paul Ryan's warmed-over budget proposal is another example of the GOP plan to dig to China by 2016.  Here is an interesting article about why the right-wing hard-liners think it's a wussy budget:

    http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-12/the-right-wing-case-against-paul-ryans-budget

    Basically, they see this as a breach of faith. The point of balancing the budget in 10 years, in their view, is to force Republicans to vote for entitlement cuts—and then, they hope, to see those same Republicans get reelected. This would demonstrate that voting for deep entitlement cuts would not be the automatic death sentence that many Republicans presume and, in time, would condition Republicans to think differently, and much more ambitiously, about what they could achieve. Today, my source told me, Republicans would shy from such cuts, even if they controlled all of Congress and the White House. It’s important to begin laying the groundwork now, so that future Republicans will be willing to go much further.

     

    • MADCO says:
      Sun March 17, 2013 at 9:27 AM MDT

      …future Republicans will be willing to go much further

       

       

      That is awesome.

      Mark "Appalachia in Argentina" Sanford is running for the vacant  US House seat in South Carolina.  I hope he wins.

       

      Richard Mourdock is still in office, and just recently said he's ready to run again. I hope he does.

      Todd Aiken is not in office – but I hope he runs too.

      Paul Ryan, of course, is still in office. And while he has never really stated his intention for the big race in 2016, ya gotta believe the good people of Janesville want him to run again.

       

      The "future Republicans"? Yeah… the current and past Republlican politicians are eating them alive.

       

  2. Gray in Mountains says:
    Sun March 17, 2013 at 11:13 AM MDT

    Rubio is trying to be Ronald Reagan. Hence his remark that we don't need any new ideas because we've got America

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