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Has "ObamaCare" Begun The Undoing Of The Republican Party? | California Progress Report

Has "ObamaCare" Begun The Undoing Of The Republican Party? | California Progress Report

Has "ObamaCare" Begun The Undoing Of The Republican Party?

Posted on 22 May 2011

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By Bill Scher

The President's health reform law has mostly been considered a political liability for him and his party, especially since it failed to keep Congress in control of the Democrats.

But the events of the past few days suggests Republicans are experiencing an internal meltdown -- crumbling under the pressure to offer a conservative solution to the health care crisis, and flailing to explain why Republicans are so hysterical about a health reform law based on what were Republican ideas.

First, presidential candidate Mitt Romney was widely mocked for a health care speech eloquently making the case for the central feature of his Massachusetts reform law -- the individual mandate to buy insurance -- then nonsensically assailing the President's reform