Dawning Bewilderment Among Obamacare Foes

Obamacare is complicated because the GOP was dead-set against the simplicity of 44's favorite, "Single Payer," or even the scaled-down version of SP known as "The Public Option."

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/obamas-preference-for-single-payer.html

Now that Obamacare is successful beyond expectation, the GOP must propose an alternative.

Lamentably, it has none.

Why not?

The Hard Central Fact Of Contemporary Conservatism

The hard, central "fact" of contemporary "conservatism" is its insistence on a socio-economic threshold above which people deserve government assistance, and below which people deserve to die. 

The sooner the better. 

Unless conservatives are showing n'er-do-wells The Door of Doom, they just don't "feel right." 

To allay this chthonic anxiety, they resort to Human Sacrifice,  hoping that spilled blood will placate "the angry gods," including the one they've made of themselves. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/harvard-study-45000-americans-die.html 

Having poked their eyes out, they fail to see  that self-generated wrath creates "the gods" who hold them thrall

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-hard-central-fact-of-contemporary.html

Almost "to a man," contemporary "conservatives" have apotheosized themselves and now -- sitting on God's usurped throne -- are rabid to pass final judgment. 

Self-proclaimed Christians, eager to thrust "the undeserving" through The Gates of Hell, are the very people most likely to cross its threshold. 

Remarkably, none of them are tempted to believe this. 

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/chesterton-on-charity-and-universal.html

ACA critics: Homina, homina, homina. "Back in the fall, conservatives seized on the flubbed Obamacare rollout as proof that President Barack Obama's brand of liberalism doesn't work.Now, the law's opponents aren't about to say that critique was wrong -- but they've lost the best evidence they had. On Tuesday, Obamacare sign-ups passed 7 million, six months after the launch of a federal website that could barely sign up anybody. There are still a lot of questions about how solid that figure is, but the idea that the law could even come close to the original goal after such a disastrous start would have been laughable even a few weeks ago. It was also a wake-up call for Republicans and conservatives, and even the occasional liberal, who pushed the argument that the failed website challenges the idea at the heart of Obama's agenda -- that government can still solve big social problems. That's left the critics questioning the early numbers or changing the subject. It's a reminder that the attacks on the website were more than complaints about technology, but a proxy for a much deeper argument about what government should do and what it can't do." David Nather in Politico.