Republicans Say They Have a Plan if the Supreme Court Rules Against Obamacare. They Don’t.
On Sunday night, three Senate Republicans — Lamar Alexander, John Barrasso and Orrin Hatch — published a Washington Post op-ed promising that if the Supreme Court rules against Obamacare and rips subsidies out of federal exchanges, “Republicans have a plan to protect Americans harmed by the administration’s actions.”
The problem is they don’t have a plan. And Republicans spent the last week showing that even if they did have a plan, there’s no way the House would pass it.
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There’s a game behind the game here: Republicans want to persuade five members of the Supreme Court that it’s safe to rule against Obamacare — they want the Justices to feel secure that Republicans will fix the mess, rather than letting it become a sucking wound that turns the country against both the GOP and the Roberts Court.
But they can’t actually promise that. They don’t have a plan to fix Obamacare, and they don’t have a plan to pass the plan they don’t have to fix Obamacare.
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