President Trump has nothing but contempt for Republican senators, on account of their inexplicable failure to repeal and replace Obamacare. He points out how for years now they have been promising to pass legislation the instant they can hand the bill to a Republican president for his signature.
Trump says he's been standing by with pen in hand, itching to sign, but those rascals can't seem to get the job done. The President is stumped by this failure. He has to wonder: Have those guys been lying all this time? Large numbers of Republicans campaigned on the promise to put a bullet through the heart of Obamacare. Don't they fear their constituents? They're all going to get un-elected!
But folks like John McCain say they don't want to rush into a one-sided agreement. They want to involve the Democrats in this deal.
So here's what I propose:
Get together a coalition of Republicans and Democrats to retool Obamacare and fix the problems with it. (This is what the majority of Americans want to happen.)
Begin the bill with these words: "The Affordable Care Act (AKA Obamacare) is hereby repealed, to be replace by the following measures."
Then drop in a big-ass slab of amended Obamacare.
Call it the American Health Care Act, or some such thing, and you're done: Obamacare is officially repealed and replaced. Suck it, Barack!
Republican Congress-critters can wave this piece of paper (or more likely, a massive paperbound book thousands of pages long) in the faces of their critics back home. "I said I'd do it and I done it! Obamacare is no more! Break out the champagne!"
Detractors may point out there's a heck of a lot of Obamacare underpinning this new legislation. So what? "It's a healthcare bill, okay? You have to expect some overlap in the details! If we're going to dump Obamacare, we can't very well replace it with an aardvark smoking a cigar. We need to replace it with more healthcare stuff!"
Hey, it might just work.
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