Yeah, our country is still being run by a psychopathic man-baby, but I’ll be damned if I wasn’t all smiles going through my social media accounts yesterday. Conservatives are still seething over Paul Ryan’s admission that Obamacare can't be repealed, even though the GOP now controls every branch of government. Blaming Obama for all their failures may have worked well with their knuckle-dragging base when Obama was in charge, but now that he’s kitesurfing with Sir Richard Branson, they are finding that a hell of a lot harder to ingest.
Conservatives had expected that, at least by now, they would be dancing on the graves of poor mothers and children. And boy, are they ever pissed. Yet what really sent them over the edge and lit Twitter on fire was a statement from GOP Texas Congressman Joe Barton. That idiot actually admitted what Democrats had known all along--those 60 House repeal votes were a complete and total fraud:
Reporters asked why, after Republicans held dozens of nearly-unanimous votes to repeal Obamacare under President Obama, they were getting cold feet now that they control the levers of power.
“Sometimes you’re playing Fantasy Football and sometimes you’re in the real game,” he said.
“We knew the president, if we could get a repeal bill to his desk, would almost certainly veto it. This time we knew if it got to the president’s desk it would be signed.”
Yup, he really said that.
It’s one thing to con your followers. It's another thing to outright tell them that you did it.
You GOTTA love that man.
I know Trump republicans should be used to being conned by now, but my God, Trump just tweeted barely a month ago how he was going to "immediately repeal and replace" the ACA with #TrumpCare because he was such a deal-maker.
He even said that repeal and replace was the "single most important" reason he needed to win---oh, and that it would be "So Easy":
We will once again be fighting for our rights and our freedoms on Monday, as we do everyday and will continue to do until we restore our nation’s sanity by electing people who actually know how to govern. But for this weekend, I will enjoy my respite in the utter failure of Paul Ryan, the breakdown of Donald Trump, and the misery of my enemies.