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I'm pretty sure that idea stopped about 10 seconds after George Washington headed back to Mount Vernon.

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The Wile E. Coyote school of political theory strikes again.

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And the best part is, they're so bent out of shape about Obamacare, they won't even notice when we implement Phase II, and turn the federal government over to the United Nations.

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Yes, but clearly it can be treated by shoving that foot in your mouth.

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Replace it with Medicare for All! That'll show that uppity bastard!

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Zombies on a diet?

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This is really a fantasy scenario? If I'm counting correctly, even if the Repos won <i>every</i> Democratic seat that is up (21), that would give them 66 Senators.

So it looks to me like the 2nd Amendment is a necessary part of the plan.

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It'll make you blind and put hair on your palms?

(As a kid, I got a hold of one of my Grandpa's textbooks from 1920s medical school in Kansas. It stated both of the above as undisputed science facts.)

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More like "Carp & Trade"

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Yes. Nothing would serve their martyr complex better than to lose elections because of an insane devotion to ideology.

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I thought zombies were all about eating braaaains.

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I really, really hope that the name "Obamacare" sticks for decades, to annoy future generations of Republitards.

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Or ... they could voluntarily decline their government health insurance and try the open market. That would be "vote with their feet" against the horrors of Obamacare and socializms.

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Something something something Socialism! Something something something something Freedom!

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Note to GOP Freshmen: we are also not going back to "White Only" drinking fountains.

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<blockquote>The breach became painfully visible to conservative insiders on a private listserv this week when a top aide to Senator Ted Cruz exchanged a series of terse and combative emails — obtained by BuzzFeed — over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s attempt to change the law’s treatment of patients with pre-existing conditions.</blockquote>

Really, the particular part of the Act they <em>most</em> want to fuck with, even the ones that have <em>finally</em> read the 60-foot-high writing on the wall about full repeal, is the most and most deservedly popular part? Wow, do they want everyone to hate them? Do they want to lose all of the elections?

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