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The spineless Republicans in Washington have been compromising for so long that it seems like many of them don't really stand for much of anything these days. I was 10 years old when Ronald Reagan won the 1980 election, and ever since that day I have considered myself to be a conservative. Even at such an early age, Reagan's message resonated with me, and
I felt that I clearly understood what it meant to be a Republican. But now I'm not so sure. Many of the Republicans in Congress are often doing the exact opposite of what Reagan would have done, and this is confusing a lot of people.
For example, just look at the Obamacare debacle. For years,
Republican politicians have pledged to repeal Obamacare if we would just give them control of the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives. So we did that, and Obamacare still has not been repealed. Many are pointing to
John McCain's shocking betrayal on Friday, but the truth is that the effort to do something about Obamacare has been a disaster from the very beginning.
Instead of simply repealing Obamacare, Republican leadership in the House and in the Senate attempted to "replace" Obamacare with a slightly less odious version of Obamacare. But that isn't what we wanted, and that sure isn't what we were promised.
I still remember the days when the Republican Party actually believed in free enterprise. Free markets work exceedingly well when you take the shackles off, but
for some reason Republicans in Washington don't seem to want to apply free market principles to our health care system.
Comment: Make that $11,000.