Ted Cruz reads Green Eggs and Ham without recognizing the irony of reading a story that encapsulates the GOP position perfectly.

The Democrats’ bet on the Affordable Care Act is that it’s like green eggs and ham—they’re convinced the public will like it when they try it.

Conservatives like Cruz claim that this is wrong. That Americans will taste the green eggs and ham and they’re going to hate it. But their actions speak otherwise. They’re desperate to repeal the law before it’s implemented. And in terms of the 2012 elections, that was fair enough. But they lost in 2012. Now instead of acting like they’re confident that the voter backlash to the green eggs and ham will power them to victories in 2014 and 2016, they’re engaging in flailing desperate tactics to make sure nobody tries the green eggs and ham. Because deep down they fear that Dr. Seuss was right.

The GOP doesn’t eat green eggs and ham.

They wont eat green eggs and ham. So the GOP doesn’t want you to eat green eggs and ham because they fear you might actually like it.

So they’re fighting to prevent anyone from eating green eggs and ham.

The GOP’s greatest fear is that once the next set of Obamacare provisions take effect - the exchanges and IM, that people will realize that the GOP is spectacularly wrong - that the program expands health insurance coverage to millions of people and that the costs are reasonable. That’s why they wanted to strangle the program before it gained acceptance - once people realize how valuable the program is, repeal, defunding, delaying, or obstructionism will be even harder to impossible to achieve.

So, instead of offering up constructive criticism on how the program could be modified to make it more cost effective or provide coverage to even more people (or everyone), they’re pushing to eliminate the program altogether - cutting health insurance to millions that would otherwise have access to those who would participate in the exchanges (which are a collection of private insurance companies who provide policies in accordance to the federal rules - which is inherently not a monopoly since it creates a new marketplace for individuals to obtain insurance).