Originally Posted by
Ma'ake
Today, Mike Lee killed McConnell's attempt to pass "Repeal and Replace" in the Senate.
The President then called for a straight repeal, and McConnell seems headed toward a vote to do just that, with a 2 year delay, to allow Congress to start from scratch.
If the Senate, House and Trump simply Repeal, this might backfire, in a thermonuclear way. Republican plans have had polling way below Obamacare, and combined with Trump's steadily eroding support, the job might fall to a Democratic House and/or Senate.
Single Payer, anyone? It's hard to imagine the forces battling that one out, but in numerous ways, we're in uncharted waters, as a nation. The energy that resulted in the Republicans getting the House, then the Senate, then the White House, could easily spurn the current occupants. Just as Bernie Sanders got 15,000 Utah youngsters to show up at This is the Place monument, the equivalent energy on the Left has not yet been heard.
I told the wife in 2004 that Obama would become president. I have fewer tea leaves to go by now, but my super-early, "don't be surprised" call for 2020 is Kamala Harris.