John, I don’t think the military will be involved, but there most assuredly be civil conflict. The Right is in full-on bullying mode and they intend to press their momentary advantage as hard as they can. They’re not going from a perspective of trying to work with anyone – they’re trying to ram a vicious agenda down everyone else’s throat with the constant refrain of “WE WON! YOU LOST! GET OVER IT! GET IN LINE OR ELSE!”

The civil conflict resulting from this will stem from the fact that bullies never seem to understand that you can’t push other people like this without an equal and opposite response. I again refer the Right to A Christmas Story. Didn’t work out so good for Scut Farkus, did it? 2018 should be interesting for the Right, provided that liberal Dems learned their lesson from not showing up at the polls in 2016. I believe the Right knows this, and it’s why they are frantically trying to do as much damage as they can, as quickly as possible.

Kennedy’s biggest moment in the spotlight, sadly, was when she blew an easy puff piece interview with Martin Landau on the red carpet for the first Tom Cruise version of Mission Impossible back in 1996. Landau quickly realized she had never seen the original series and had no idea why she was interviewing him, and she quickly realized it would not be a great video clip for herself.

About a decade later, she started to make a Right Wing name for herself on various AM radio shows, including at KFI in Los Angeles. In 2008, she was co-hosting a snarky Right Wing show on KFI with Bryan Suits (“Kennedy & Suits”) wherein they confidently predicted that Barack Obama would never win the 2008 election.

A few years later, she was popping up on Fox News to spew the same nonsense.

And here we have her, 20 years after her on-air humiliation by Landau, and she still hasn’t learned her lesson.

I’m honestly not sure why she is trying to play these games when the original clips have been preserved for posterity. The smarter move for her would not be to try to make fun of other people but instead to try to be a more tolerant and decent person. But that may be too much to ask.

Ellen, I hear you, and I do see what you mean when compared with the other voices Wallace allowed to speak. I think we agree on the general nature of it. We’ll have to see how the Pence White House reacts to Wallace’s gentle temerity today…

Susan’s comments, on the other hand, make no sense. Has Susan actually watched Fox News or Chris Wallace over the past 8 years? Wallace has repeatedly called President Obama a liar and many other things, depending on which policy was being attacked or obstructed. Fox News in general has repeatedly called Barack Obama a liar, a secret Muslim, a corrupt person, a cop hater, and more epithets than I can possibly recount at this time. Wallace gently pointing out that Trump’s obsession with an obvious falsehood about his crowd size doesn’t even begin to compare with the open hostility that was shown to Barack Obama.

It is important to recognize two major events and one sidebar for the day.

1. The marches around the country and in DC firmly outpaced the relatively small turnout for the Trump/Pence coronation. Yesterday’s event turns out to have been a smaller affair than anticipated and the smallest one we’ve seen in decades. The Trump supporters had hoped they would see something like 500K present at the event, but it’s clear that they didn’t get anything near that number. And they floundered in the ratings as well, coming in behind the Obama events and far behind the record set by Ronald Reagan in 1981. In comparison, the marches today were much larger affairs – making a strong case that the majority of this country does not agree with the bullying and the viciousness of the Pence White House and its stated intentions. And for those who are trying to say that the wide shot of the grounds during the Trump event was somehow from 530am or 8am, I have to point out that the item was tagged as right before noon, and that the shot could not have been taken early in the morning. It was a foggy, cold, rainy day and the sun wasn’t rising until around 8am. I know the Right desperately wants Trump to have had the same turnout as Obama did in 2009 but they didn’t. In the same way that they only squeaked through in the election, they simply didn’t have that many people running out to see them in person or tuning their televisions to the event.

2. Sean Spicer’s despicable tantrum in front of the White House press corps is a grim omen of what is coming over the next four years. He literally went into the room and shouted a stream of demonstrable lies to the press and then stomped out of the room. The CNN report on his meltdown is instructive, as they pointed out in each case where he was lying, and to what extent. If this was meant to bully the press into doing as they were told, it in fact had the reverse effect. It’s obvious that Spicer thinks he can get away with this – it being The Year of the Bully, after all. But the journalists covering him may not be on the same page. The fact that Spicer thought he could get away with obvious falsehoods on the strength of his bravado is quite telling. His next presser should be interesting – I don’t believe the journalists will let him live this down for some time.

3. Trump’s visit to the CIA was sadly marked by his usual inability to focus on anything other than his narcissism and his obsession with any slight. It’s telling that the intelligence people who had to listen to it were shocked at Trump’s display. And it’s unprecedented for this visit to get a solid rebuke where the outgoing head of the agency is clear that the Tweeter-in-Chief should be ashamed of himself.

Behind the scenes of all this, Trump’s people erased vital materials from the White House website (which is why so many have been archiving the valuable research on climate change, etc), and Trump happily signed an executive order to make it harder for lower income people to get a mortgage, and the expected one to gut the ACA. (Trump’s first salvo removes all the requirements and mandates, making it up to each agency whether they wish to enforce anything. This means the individual mandate is gone, as are all the required coverage issues. Meaning that the insurers now have no reason to stay with the ACA and will begin backing out immediately. The incoming bill from Congress will finish this off and we can get back to where we were in 2009, before Barack Obama had the temerity to try this.)

Looking forward to next week, when the Pence White House gets to work on deporting undocumented immigrants, building a wall against Mexico, unraveling our various treaties (TPP, Paris Accords, Cuba, Iran, etc) and announces either William Pryor or Mike Lee to be inflicted on the Supreme Court. Expect Fox News to cheerlead all the way.

More bullying as we expected. It’s not even original.

Glenn Beck got into this in 2005: “Hang on, let me just tell you what I’m thinking. I’m thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I’m wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out — is this wrong? I stopped wearing my What Would Jesus — band — Do, and I’ve lost all sense of right and wrong now. I used to be able to say, “Yeah, I’d kill Michael Moore,” and then I’d see the little band: What Would Jesus Do? And then I’d realize, “Oh, you wouldn’t kill Michael Moore. Or at least you wouldn’t choke him to death.” And you know, well, I’m not sure.”

The difference here is that Clarke is a Sheriff.

Can’t he be impeached for this? He’s threatening violence against someone with whom he disagrees. As a peace officer charged with protecting everyone’s safety, doesn’t it violate his oath to engage in this behavior? This is a serious question. If there is a way he can be disciplined for this, that should be done.

David, I would add Bill O’Reilly to that as well. He made sure to get a deferment so he wouldn’t have to go to Vietnam. This was decades before he would tell falsehoods about his “combat zone” experience in Argentina, etc. But we digress.

I doubt there will be any attempt to do anything with the draft, in that the Pence White House will be looking to have their conflicts be more trade-oriented than military. When it comes to ISIS and other groups like that, Pence will simply order bombing raids. He won’t want Trump to have to explain lots of casualties coming back home as would happen if they instigated a ground war. I think they picked up one lesson from Iraq, which was that they got themselves into a stupid quagmire with that one and they don’t want to repeat it.

I agree with Bemused that the rioters yesterday did not help anyone’s cause. If anything, they just gave Fox News and the Right Wing a reason to dismiss the more important marches happening today. And sure enough, the Right happily went about referring to the rioters as “typical liberals” and “snowflakes” and other nonsensical phrases. I’d frankly be very curious to hear exactly who was rioting and who instigated it. It’s most likely just the same people who do this every time there is civil unrest, but it would bear examination to confirm that there wasn’t any covert involvement by some who wanted that to be the headline for the Left.

I realize that it looks unseemly for a bunch of people to choose not to be part of Trump’s coronation, but I also see it from John Lewis’ point of view. Make no mistake, Donald Trump has repeatedly conducted himself in a disgraceful manner, embarrassing the nation with his repeated personal swipes at anyone he thinks has insulted him. He has conducted himself in an offensive way, repeatedly saying bigoted and sexist things and generally trying to bully everyone else to his will. His conduct yesterday was typical of that behavior – he didn’t speak of bringing anyone together or of working with anyone or of acknowledging that most of the country did not vote for him. Instead, he pumped his fist and gave a vicious, angry, bullying screed that had to have shocked people both in the country and abroad. I can see why Lewis did not want to sit there for that.

I do understand the notion of “respecting the process.” But the issue at hand is that Donald Trump has never respected the process. He repeatedly said everything was rigged against him, he repeatedly demeaned everyone who was trying to work within the actual electoral process and he repeatedly encouraged violence and viciousness towards those with whom he disagreed. At what point did Donald Trump ever show respect for anyone else when he wasn’t thinking he was being magnanimous after bullying them? Given that Trump has no respect for the process, and given his documented hatred for most of the other people involved, anyone attending this event would have to either be an ardent supporter or a reluctant attendee trying to at least put on a good face. But how can one put a good face on a situation where you have Sean Spicer, Rush Limbaugh and all the various personalities on Fox News repeatedly, angrily screaming “WE WON! YOU LOST! GET OVER IT, SNOWFLAKE!” and demanding that the rest of the country now just let bygones be bygones and happily support our new Tweeter in Chief? In other words, the Right Wing has openly tried to bully everyone else into getting in line behind Trump, including by spending their day watching Trump and Pence be crowned.

I fully understand why John Lewis and the others felt they needed to make a statement against this kind of bullying. I fully respect them making that statement, and I really appreciate the Dems who said that they intended to spend the day with their constituents in their districts trying to get some real work done. That’s a fully honorable thing to do, and I’m glad they did it.

And again, I don’t give any credence to Right Wing howls about them making a principled stand against bullying, when the Right never gave any respect to Barack Obama. Sure, they sat at his inauguration – which they immediately ridiculed for a flub that happened when John Roberts and Obama tripped over each other’s words. For the Right, that day was about making fun of President Obama, not celebrating a peaceful transition of anything. And people like Newt Gingrich finished that day by plotting to obstruct every single thing Obama did. And let’s not forget Rush Limbaugh feeding the flames the prior week by screaming “I HOPE HE FAILS!” Sure, the Right really supported a peaceful transition and got behind Obama all the way, didn’t they? Only if you were completely asleep for the past 8 years would you think so.

Keep in mind that Trump has no intention of spending 15 hour days sweating over policy changes and the like. That’s acting president Pence’s job.

We will be seeing the Pence White House frantically reversing every single thing that President Obama accomplished or ordered, and every day the Tweeter in Chief will be signing the latest EOs and bills from Congress to make that happen.

Meaning that Trump doesn’t need to work a super long day. Ronald Reagan never did.

Eyes, Trump is already doing that every day and will continue to do so. Trump gloating and bullying is like the rising of the sun each day, isn’t it?

Another shoe dropped this morning – we now know the first wave of radical budget cuts Pence is planning. Massive cuts to Justice, State and Energy. (I’m still waiting to see the cuts to Education and EPA that must be in there too) All part of an extreme Hard Right budget from the Heritage Foundation. Pence is also eliminating the NEA, the NEH and privatizing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Programs that were intended to help battered women or encourage Community Policing? Gone.

Welcome to the new normal. Elections have consequences. Hopefully the people who sat on their hands this election are paying attention.

Again, Trump may not know which papers he’s signing first, but acting president Pence sure does.

O’Reilly and Hannity each had really funny segments last night on President Obama’s last presser. O’Reilly angrily demanded that Obama publicly renounce Dems who have chosen to not attend Trump’s coronation ceremony. Hannity went farther – he tried to rehabilitate George W Bush, on the basis that Bush has never commented on the Obama presidency other than to say he thought he was a good guy. And he castigated the 2008 Obama campaign for noting the failure of Bush’s policies and the collapse of the economy, and connecting the McCain campaign to the outgoing administration.

A. O’Reilly seems to have forgotten how the GOP held a vicious strategy session in the shadow of the 2009 Inauguration, specifically to plan to obstruct every single thing that President Obama and the Dems attempted, and then to use that as campaign material. I have never, ever heard O’Reilly denounce this as un-American or unpatriotic. O’Reilly does not get to choose when these activities are ethically or morally compromised. If he’s getting on his moral high horse, he’ll need to be able to explain that one.

B. Hannity conveniently forgets that Bush did in fact leave the country in a massive recession, and left a gigantic mess for Obama to clean up. Hannity also conveniently forgets that Bush left office as one of the least popular Presidents in history (at least until acting president Pence does real damage starting tomorrow…) and that Obama is leaving office as one of the most popular Presidents.

C. Hannity has somehow instantly forgotten how the Trump Campaign and all GOP campaigns in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016 repeatedly used phrases to say that President Obama was a failed president and that there was a massive mess we now had to clean up. (A curious assertion given that we emerged from the recession 6 years ago and Trump is actually inheriting a much healthier economy – which Pence will now of course ransack.)

D. Hannity deliberately forgets that George W Bush has remained silent because Dick Cheney is constantly making nasty comments about President Obama. I love how the Right tries to play these games. Past Presidents shouldn’t ever say anything negative about the current President as that would be unseemly. For shame. But a past Vice President who was really running a lot of that prior presidency? Fox News wants that guy to come right in and start the insult train. (And we won’t even get into the fact that Cheney has always been able to articulate the Hard Right response while W. Bush has always been known for fumbling such statements. My favorite W statement is still the one about tough economic times making it hard for some folks to “put food on their families.”

I really wonder if O’Reilly and Hannity actually think people are so blind that they can’t remember what happened in even recent history?

Acting president Pence is never going to approve a Single Payer program. He will not allow it to go forward in Congress and he would tell the Tweeter in Chief not to sign it if it somehow did.

Paul Ryan doesn’t care if these people lose their coverage – he just wants to couch it in a way that will make it sound palatable and make himself sound sympathetic. That’s why he was superficially nice to the young woman at the Town Hall – he was providing the “friendly face” that Rick Santorum refreshingly didn’t a month earlier. And it doesn’t change that Ryan is ramming through legislation that will absolutely cause people to lose their coverage, and that he will completely support the Pence White House’s push to encourage the DACA participants to leave the USA with their families. Remember that they don’t have to have a “deportation force”. All they need to do is send that letter, and those families will get the message. We are already starting to see movement of people beginning to flee the country in advance of this – that will likely continue and accelerate.

As for Trump, I strongly doubt he thinks that much about whether or not the average person has coverage. He just doesn’t want to be asked an embarrassing question about it. After O’Reilly and Hannity feed him the talking points about how this is all the Dems’ fault, and after Pence preps him on it, he’ll issue a tweet to absolve himself and the GOP of responsibility since they’re really just cleaning up the Dems’ mess.

I strongly recommend people prepare for the ACA to be completely defunct in short order. Assuming that these guys would go back on their promises to kill it is not realistic. Please remember this has nothing to do with whether anyone has health insurance. It is specifically about killing the ACA and then retroactively declaring President Obama to be a failure who accomplished nothing.

These people have given us no indication that they actually care about how regular people get their health care. If they had cared about that, we’d have seen a real participation from them 8 years ago and all through the years since. The fact is, they don’t care. We should not assume that they do.

I fully expect O’Reilly to have her on soon, specifically to play this situation as one where CNN will be attacked for having pointed out the obvious plagiarism. This will be presented not as something for her to defend but instead as an example of liberals refusing to allow Trump the wonderful (and fictional) honeymoon period the Right supposedly gave President Obama. O’Reilly will likely present Crowley as a martyr, a decent woman who was wronged by the nasty “far left zealots”.

Keep in mind that O’Reilly’s own scholastic issues with his writing, ie his complete fabrications about his own history, will come into play here. O’Reilly will sympathize with Crowley on the basis of “I know what it’s like to be vilified by these people” and “They only hate you because you’re effective”, etc.

Beckel looked quite ill in his appearance. If anything, he appears to have aged ten years since the last time he appeared on the network. He mentioned having repeated operations during the past year. I’m not certain this idea will last very long.

I should also mention that when I was a DGA Trainee, I worked with Beckel’s brother Graham on the movie LA CONFIDENTIAL. Graham was always a decent man at work, even if he played an extremely corrupt character onscreen. (Both brothers are different shades of politics – I understand Graham to be more openly conservative)

Always interesting to hear from our incoming acting President. And helpful to know that he’s perfectly comfortable dismissing talk about his spokesman’s constant gaffe problem. Pence will need to spend some time over the next four years dealing with that. That is, when he isn’t busy with his full time job – running all the domestic and foreign policy from the White House. He has good reason to be smug and pleased with himself these days – he gets to accomplish all his goals with the US government, and Trump has agreed to take the heat for it. (You’d think Ted Cruz would be pleased with this too since it’s really Cruz’ agenda, but that forgets that Cruz wanted to be able to take all the credit for all that stuff himself…)

Of course, Pence is disingenuous with the Right Wing talking points on the election. Let’s try that one again. Hillary Clinton received nearly 3 million more votes than Trump. Period. Pence cites 30 states and a large number of counties. He conveniently forgets that many of those states and counties were razor thin margins. Barack Obama won 26 states to Mitt Romney’s 24 in 2012. Six states switched to Trump, by very close margins – Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. He basically gamed the system by depressing the Clinton turnout and convincing enough angry white male voters in those states that he was listening to them more than she was. Since enough Clinton voters did not turn out, Trump was able to escape those states. Even the GOP admits this was an election decided by 80K people out of a population of 300 million. So perhaps Pence and the GOP might want to be a bit more careful in their talking points. The next election is guaranteed to see a lot more Dem activity in those states, specifically to address Trump’s game-playing. And past that, the coming economic shocks many of these areas are about to face will undoubtedly swing those states back the other way. The smart way for Pence to govern at this time would be to admit this was a squeaker election and to acknowledge that much of the country does not agree with what Trump has announced Pence will do. What we’re seeing instead is a pretty nasty version of spiking the football.

And it’s nice that Pence recognizes that John Lewis is a person of far more action than Trump has ever known. Or Pence, for that matter. But his obvious condescension (normal for Pence) just tells us the new White House is almost completely deaf to the voices of much of America.

I suppose we get to choose here. We can endure the sneering condescension of a Mike Pence as he dismantles much of what we have understood American society and government to be. Or we can endure the outright vicious bullying we see regularly from Fox News, Right Wing media and of course from Pence’s Tweeter in Chief.

Spicer really needs to start thinking about whether or not his aggressive, bullying posture is going to help him much in the long run. He also really needs to think about how much of the next four years he’s ready to spend defending every gaffe Trump makes, because there will be plenty.

I really have no sympathy for Megyn Kelly. She gamed the system at Fox News and it worked out for her financially. Now she’s made a strategic move to NBC, presumably thinking she can get herself some mainstream news credibility.

I don’t doubt that she was despised at Fox – this usually happens when someone is that openly ambitious and is willing to say whatever the boss wants to hear in order to get the promotion. I also don’t doubt that she will not likely be popular at NBC – there are already rumblings about that.

Her conduct on the air was generally despicable in and of itself – occasionally she would say something halfway reasonable, but her usual approach was to demean non-conservative guests and to encourage Right Wing views.

I applaud her achievement in advancing her career, and I applaud her effort to move out of Fox News, but that does not change who she is or how she has conducted herself. Like Van Susteren at MSNBC, Kelly is setting herself up to be the “house Right Winger” so that NBC can assert that they’ve been fair to the GOP for the next four years. Her credibility is way too damaged for anyone to take her seriously as an objective reporter – I actually wouldn’t be surprised to see her return to Fox News in a few years, given the issues that Fox News tends to cause for its former employees seeking credible work elsewhere.

Eyes, you are exactly right.

And check out what Rand Paul proudly announced today – his new version of Health Care (one of the various options the GOP will spend the next two years arguing about). Heavy on the HSA idea. Heavy on the idea of small businesses all trying to band together and somehow form a group plan together – which is great if you believe all these guys are going to work together on their own to do this. Bearish on the idea of expanded Medicaid – Paul knows this was a popular part of the ACA, so his idea is to defund it and demand the states raise taxes to pay for it themselves. (He helpfully leaves out the fact that GOP legislators all sign this Grover Norquist pledge to never raise taxes, so in fact that’s not an option)

And Paul is trying to present this as a humane and workable alternative to the ACA. It is anything but. It’s basically a “You’re on your own, pal” plan. Essentially the same thing as where we were before the ACA, only with an option for these fictional group plans. I predict it’s dead on arrival, and Paul knows that. He just wants to be able to say that he had a plan he was proposing that “could have taken care of everyone” when all of this gets mired in the internal debates the GOP is going to have for some time to come.

In the meantime, the ACA will be gone, and its participants should be thinking about what actions they will take for their health care for the next four years. There is no way this train is stopping at this point. They all have spent the past 6 years campaigning on getting rid of it – they HAVE to do that. So they will. The “Repealing is Replacing” argument will work for some of them when they’re challenged about what they’ve done. For the rest, they’ll just blame the Dems for not helping them. I’m really hoping the people who had ACA coverage will remember how angry they are when the next round of elections happen in 2018.

The speed with which the GOP is moving tells me that undocumented immigrants should be watching their rear ends – they’re next in the crosshairs.

And I heard a law professor point out this morning that Jeff Sessions’ dodging answer that he would “follow the law” when dealing with the instructions from the Pence White House is actually a meaningless statement. If “the law” was crystal clear on everything, we would not need courts to decide anything. The key to the Justice Dept and to the Judiciary is the INTERPRETATION of the law. That’s why it’s crucial to get judges who aren’t so wildly biased in fringe ideas like “originalism” and why it makes a difference if the Attorney General is someone like Loretta Lynch or someone like Jeff Sessions.

I noted in the Trump Press Conference thread that Spicer’s sneering comments here would be spit-take funny if the situation were not as chilling as it is.

Spicer and the Right Wing have a lot of nerve trying to claim any moral high ground in any situation of a reporter asking questions of a President. When President Obama was repeatedly heckled or booed at any event, Fox News and the Right Wing happily supported it. Ellen correctly notes just one situation with Neil Munro. That wasn’t the only time. There were plenty of others. How about, in a similar vein, Joe Wilson crying out “You Lie!” during a State of the Union Address – something that Rush Limbaugh vigorously defended him for doing? How about the numerous times that Fox News reporters would ask obvious leading questions of Obama and/or his Press Secretary, designed to play the Fox line of the day? How about the numerous intemperate attack questions inflicted by Ed Henry? How about the repeated attempts by Ed Henry to belittle Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail? And yes, how about all the support the Right Wing and Fox News gave to the Birther movement?

How about all the constant drumbeats of viciousness from the likes of Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity throughout the Obama Presidency, always looking for an angle, some scandal that would be the magic bullet to bring him down? How about the repeated statements by the likes of Sean Hannity repeating Far Right ideas about Obama’s grade transcripts being suspicious? I presume that Sean Spicer is saying that all of this is just fine, but if a CNN reporter attempts to ask a question and is viciously rebuffed by a childish politician, that this must be the CNN reporter’s fault?

Spicer’s unbelievable hypocrisy and shamelessness is jaw dropping. How DARE he try to get away with this?

Hannity’s vicious hatred of Barack Obama has really found a new intensity over the past two months, and as we approach January 20th, Hannity is visibly salivating over being able to firmly declare Obama a failure and a has-been. He’s delighted at the turn of events, particularly since he’d been setting himself up to be a lone voice in the wilderness to protest the horrors of a Hillary Clinton presidency. Instead, he’s getting pretty much everything he wanted for Christmas.

I remember in 2004, when the GOP gamed that election to play on many people’s ginned-up fears about Iraq and everything else, there was a condescending statement running around the Right of “Don’t gloat!” Although W couldn’t resist and began to talk openly about the “political capital” he now intended to spend on erasing various programs like Social Security. This time around, the Right Wing is taking its cue from Donald Trump – so they’re bullying and gloating like it’s going out of style.

I just wonder if Hannity remembers the way all bullies wind up ending. I wonder if he remembers how things worked out for Scut Farkus and Buddy Hinton. He might want to think about that one for a minute or two.

I need to point out that O’Reilly is actually making that statement in SUPPORT of Nixon, not as a Freudian slip about upcoming problems.

O’Reilly is actually spinning the notion, popular among the Right Wing, that Richard Nixon was a better politician and president than people remember and perceive, and that his bad reputation was really due to the press being aligned against him from the beginning. And the Right usually brings up the notion that the press antipathy was based on Nixon’s anti-communist activities, including his attack on Alger Hiss and the nasty smear campaign he ran against Helen Gahagan Douglas to try to paint her red.

I frankly wouldn’t be surprised if O’Reilly has Martin Dugard working on a “Killing Nixon” book so he can posthumously rehabilitate the man.

Jim Jordan said it best last night on Hannity – Repealing the ACA is itself the replacement. These guys are not thinking so much about creating a whole new healthcare program. They’re thinking in terms of just getting rid of the old law (and Jordan was saying ALL of it – every single requirement, mandate, etc) and letting the market take care of everything after that. Just like it did for the decades before the ACA.

The new meme for the Right is ‘Why do we have to replace it?" You’ll hear that one getting more amplified on Fox News over the next few weeks, until Tom Price presents everyone with the Health Savings Account solution.