re: #9 EPR-radar

The Fifth stage should be described thus:

Acceptance*: The Democrats stole the idea from Mitt Romney.

(*) GOP ‘improvements’ to Obamacare are intended to gut it as much as politically possible.

It’s not like this GOP really accepts Social Security, Medicare or the Civil Rights laws.

Yep, take credit for it while at the same time weakening as much as possilbe. Just as you say they do with Civil Rights.