The Republican effort to repeal and replace Obamacare has been an “epic fail,” said Charles Krauthammer. “This is seven years of argument gone down the drain.”
Krauthammer explained why the Republicans failed so abysmally:
There are three reasons why this went down. The first is that once you give an entitlement, which is what ObamaCare did, you almost never can retrieve it and abandon it. The second is there was no presidential leadership. You want to do something of this scale, you have to do — and here we were critical of Obama, but he gave at least 32 national addresses, you and I lost count after that, I mean, it was higher than that, on his healthcare bill, and he made the case. Did anybody make the case for what was in this bill in the Senate, other than it was a promise? And the last is that it shows the divide between the moderates and the conservatives in the Republican caucus, in both houses, is almost unbridgeable and there is no one to adjudicate the split. The moderates were afraid of the curtailment of Medicaid, and the conservatives are the ones who wanted the curtailment of Medicaid as an entitlement out of control.
You put all of those together and you get an epic fail.
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