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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMorning Plum: Republicans running away from House GOP
Morning Plum: Republicans running away from House GOPby Greg Sargent at the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/08/11/morning-plum-republicans-running-away-from-house-gop/
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Case in point: Thom Tillis, who is running for Senate in North Carolina. In a remarkable interview with Byron York, Tillis neatly illustrates that broader dynamic:
On Obamacare, Tillis, like nearly every other Republican running for federal office, said, I think we have to repeal it. The new system hurts far more people than it benefits and is unsustainable in the long run, he said. Still, Tillis is concerned that Capitol Hill Republicans havent united behind an Obamacare alternative. Republicans have to have an answer to the when-you-repeal-it-what-are-you-replacing-it-with question, he said. We owe the American people a solution to the problem.
Tillis is under no illusions that the GOP, even if it controlled the House and Senate, could actually repeal Obamacare with its namesake still in the White House. And even after, given the structure of exchanges and subsidies that now exists, repeal cant be done in one fell swoop. I think youre going to have to ramp it down, Tillis said. Any repeal measure needs to be married with how do you provide a landing, or a transition, to some of those who are on Obamacare.
On immigration, Tillis called the Republicans who voted last year for the Gang of Eight bipartisan reform bill well intentioned. But he said the reform process meandered and started expanding to a point where they lost sight of what needs to be done first that is, securing the border. Tillis said he would have voted no on the bill.
On last years government shutdown, Tillis tried to make clear that he would not have supported it, but he took care not to demean the motives of the Republicans who did. I think what some of the members did was well-intentioned, he said, but youve got to fund government operations.
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Morning Plum: Republicans running away from House GOP (Original Post)
applegrove
Aug 2014
OP
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)1. One bit mediawhore Chris Cilizza says the GOP is united
and the Democrats are certain to lose.
blm
(113,100 posts)2. Is there anyone who still thinks Chris Cilizza is a reporter? He's a GOP stenographer
at all times and a GOP apologist when needed.