[quote=FlyerInHi]Livin, the Republicans said it would be a disaster, but then they said they needed to stop obamacare before the population became addicted to it. Addicted to a disaster.

So was the defund movement good or bad politics?[/quote]

The republicans are morons for sayings that. It doesn’t make any sense. There’s things that people really like in the ACA, stuff like pre-existing condition coverage, young adults being able to stay on their parents policies, etc. The thing they don’t like is how much it’s going to cost them. A lot of people thought it was going to be free or super cheap and it just isn’t by most measures.

I was listening to NPR this morning and they had the CEO from Scripps Hospital on this morning and he said the number one question their call center was receiving was how to I sign up for my “Free” Obamacare coverage.

Until just recently we didn’t know what the costs were and now that we know the ACA is becoming a lot less popular. The publicans probably should have passed a 6 week bill and waited for the public to become discontent with the costs of the ACA and then pushed for defunding. It would have been a much more popular move 6 weeks down the road.

That said the republicans had a piss poor strategy and it will likely cost them. I’m still waiting for the day I can vote for a fiscally responsible candidate that isn’t looking to garner my vote on some emotional charged issue like gay marriage, abortion, legalizing drugs, immigration. That stuff should be the last of our worries right now.