Doing the Same Thing and Expecting Different Results

Posted on July 11, 2012 at 9:29 am by Bob Cesca

The definition of insanity. For the 31st time, the Republicans will vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act today.

This is arguably the most repetitive pander to the base. Ever. And more Americans every day, including Republicans who agree with most of law’s provisions, don’t want the law to be repealed.

When House Republicans vote for the 31st time tomorrow to kill the entirety of the law — that’s literally the number, not a figure exaggerated for humor — they’ll no doubt give a lot of speeches boasting that “the American people” are on their side. But public attitudes are far more complex than the right chooses to believe — support for the law has gone up and the provisions within the law remain quite popular. Less than a third of the country actually likes the Republican proposal to scrap every letter of the law.

The votes are purely symbolic because they’ll never get beyond the wacky House. But I wonder if the Democrats should be making a bigger deal of the Republican effort to repeal an increasingly popular law.

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  • http://www.politicalruminations.com/ nicole

    “I wonder if the Democrats should be making a bigger deal of the Republican effort to repeal an increasingly popular law”

    If not that, they should certainly be screeching about how the Republicans waste megabucks of taxpayer dollars every time they play this little game.

    Really, the 112th congress has done little else but waste time and money on votes for or against this or that in an effort to avoid addressing real issues and real action, all as part of their effort to disallow Pres. Obama even small legislative victories.

    These so-called Republican “lawmakers” should be barred from public service.

  • mrbrink

    Republicans voted today to hurt people. Plain and simple. They are torturing, lying, greedy little sadists who have the power to hurt people.

    Their vote today confirms all of this.

  • muselet

    Steve Benen today:

    I noted yesterday that it will be the 31st time the House GOP has voted to repeal all, part, or some of “Obamacare,” but it turns out I understated matters — I’ve since been informed by the House Republican Whip’s office that today will be the 33rd repeal vote.

    These people are children.

    –alopecia