Voting for failure
by digby
This really is shocking:
Ari Melber focuses in the right direction:
[A]sking whether Republicans look good by attacking healthcare again is the wrong question. By stoking another healthcare debate, even for a failed vote after a court loss, they are distracting people from the relentless GOP obstruction on economic recovery. And if there’s no jobs plan, of course, it’s easier for their nominee to keep asking where the jobs are.
This may or may not work for them. But there can be little doubt that they made a strategic political decision some time back to do everything they could to keep this economy in crisis. The fact that the Democrats have been unable to make this crystal clear proves just how complicated it is to get the facts out in our politics. All people know is that everything is still messed up --- the why of it is left up to the interpretation of people they trust. And unfortunately, most of them either trust Villagers or right wing lunatics.
.
