Republicans Do Crazy Things Because They Have Crazy Beliefs

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Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.)

National Review's Robert Costa reports that many House Republicans already hate John Boehner's debt limit plan, which they haven't seen yet.
And he has a choice quote from Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) about why he's not prepared to raise the debt limit just yet:

“America is going to be destroyed by Obamacare, so whatever deal is put together must at least reschedule the implementation of Obamacare,” he says. “This law is going to destroy America and everything in America, and we need to stop it.”

It's one thing to oppose Obamacare. It's quite another to believe it will "destroy America and everything in America." As Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Avik Roy, a strong opponent of Obamacare, wrote last month:

The idea that we had a free-market health-care system before Obamacare, and a socialized one after, is completely and utterly incorrect. In 2010, before the passage of Obamacare, U.S.-government entities spent more per capita on health care than all but three other countries in the world. Obamacare adds to that spending by around 10 to 15 percent. Not good, to be sure, but not the whole kit and caboodle either.

***my best recollection is that the author of this piece is a republican

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