National Review columnist Mark Steyn
blasted claims by Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and others
that the best strategy is to allow Obamacare to crumble under its own weight and
only then seek to repeal it.
Filling in as host on Rush Limbaugh’s
radio show Monday, Steyn, author of “After America: Get
Ready for Armageddon,” explained to a caller named “Joe” that there is no
reason to believe congressional Republicans have the will to repeal anything,
especially considering that Carter-era institutions like the Department of Education and the
Department of Energy have managed to flourish even in times of
Republican-control.
“[I] mean, Mitch McConnell’s line is now,
‘Oh, just let — Obamacare is going to be so self-evidently destructive that when
we win our spectacular victory in the Senate election and the next presidential
election, we will be able to repeal it and roll it back.’ When do the
Republicans ever do that? Those Carter-era innovations like the entirely useless
federal Department of Education, the federal Energy Department, even the
National Endowment of the Arts — when for decades it has been mocked for giving
public monies to crucifixes floating in urine, homoerotic photography involving
bullwhips attractively positioned — none of those nickel and dime things have
the Republican Party succeeded in rolling back. What are the odds that when this
thing implodes, the Republicans are going to be making a tremendous case for
genuine free choice in health care that Obamacare will be repealed?”
Steyn explained that there was another
possible drawback — that the government may double down on Obamacare,
which would result in more government control, not less.
“I don’t see that. I think the danger
here, Joe, once it’s a disaster, is people will — the government for one always
doubles down on, for start, always doubles down on disasters. If it’s a
disaster, they’ll say we need more government interference,” he continued. “We
need a tighter government system. We need more government control. We need
government-owned hospitals. We need government-employed doctors. We need
government-employed nurses.”
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