[ldoughty]

Yep? I mean it's threatened every time by Republicans. But it's usually just grandstanding... Take Obamacare for instance. It was threatened to be repealed constantly, over and over, But even when they had full control and could do whatever they wanted it still survived.. at the end of the day, the elected officials know that it hurts their own people more to appeal it, so they just give the issue lip service and tweaks and fly a giant mission accomplished banner from the deck of their ship.

So on one side, I agree with you, who would think that they actually follow through with what they were saying over and over on the campaign trail.... And now they have.

[krapp]

"I never thought the party that's been saying for 20 years that they want to reduce government to the size where they can drown it in the bathtub would ever do anything drastic..."