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For the past two days, the six news feeds that I read every morning (Including the foreign ones) have been filled with story after story about Reboobicans/Obamacare and Government Shutdowns. I am actually mildly annoyed by it since I am very certain that other news events happened in the past 48 hours, but you couldn't tell it by the Left/Right Whinge propaganda going on all over the Interwebz. Senator Cruz is even launching a Filibuster over the subject. Sadly since the Reboobicans have tried to defund just short of an infinite number of times without even the hint of success , no one is really surprised by this.

However, it has got me thinking and as everyone knows that is more dangerous than coming between a Momma Bear and her cub. Keep in mind this is neither an argument for or against the Affordable Care Act, just the musings of a slightly deranged, but often comical psyche. Why are Reboobicans/Tea Beggars so hot to defund, destroy and debunk the ACA. Why have they been waging an almost unceasing war (and losing war) over it since its inception?

Now some will argue that they are doing it because of an overwhelming concern for the economy and the welfare of the American People. (Somehow using the word Welfare and Republicans in the same context seems wrong. Not sure why.) These same people might also argue that the Moon is made of Green Cheese and we never actually went there to check, but that is beside the point. Others might argue that a lot of them are doing it just because the Damnocrats want it and what the Damnocrats want has to be bad. Even others might argue that it is because Evil Alien Blue Gnomes are inside their heads hitting their brains with hammers. Any of these hypotheses might be true. (Well okay, maybe not the last one. The Alien Gnomes are actually Green. Every one knows that.) Like everyone else and brother I do mean EVERYONE, I have my own idea.

I think the Reboobicans are fighting tooth and nail against this whole thing because they are scared. Not of hurting the American People or the Economy, but because they are afraid of what happens if the ACA actually Works. Not saying it will, but just because something might not happen doesn't mean people don't panic over it or there wouldn't Meteorite Insurance. (I Shift you not, look it up.) Yep my idea is that all of the Reboobicans/Cantservatives on Capitol Hill are scared out of their gourds because they are terrified that it might actually work.

Think about the context of all this for a moment or three. Reboobicans and Cantservatives have been railing against Obamacare since Day One (Well maybe day 20, most of them were on vacation the first few weeks.) Every single one of them has built their campaigns off of the fact that the ACA will bring American into a Socialistic Age where Dinosaurs roam the streets and we live in fear of Death Panels marching to take our Grandparents away. They have raged on and on long before any of the segments of the ACA ever went into effect. In short, right or wrong they have made complete and utter pompous Asses of themselves.

While they were doing all of this, they lived in the quiet comfort that actual implementation of it all was “way out there” in the future. They could preach their sermons without fear of any actual solid facts or data to contradict them. Now, as the deadline approaches, that wonderful little buffer zone is rapidly shrinking and reality (Whatever that turns out to be) is creeping up on them. So now they are being faced with a scary thought. “What if it works?”

Like I said I am not making commentary on the ACA's pros and cons. I am not making a statement on whether it is a good thing or bad thing. I simply don't have the math and any actual facts have been cleverly camouflaged by all the Rhetoric and Propaganda being put out by both sides. I am just pondering the ever increasing terror besetting the Reboobicans/Tea Beggars. You can hypothesize all you want to, toss out numbers left and right and quote any number of “experts” as both sides have, but the only way to really tell if something will actually work is to try it out. So what happens to the Reboobican Party IF and I do mean IF the ACA actually works even remotely as advertised?

Simple, if it actually works all of the years of rancor and rhetoric will make the Reboobicans look pretty much like a bunch of greedy, grumpy morons (Wait, how is that any different than now.) It will reinforce the view that so many Americans have that Reboobicans, Tea Beggars and Cantservatives are more interested in power and money than the welfare of the American People. If it actually works, it will pretty much blow any chance of any Reboobican winning a major election for at least 8 or more years.

So, the Reboobican Anti-ACA offensive has gone into overdrive. The Government Shutdown/Debt Ceiling fiasco is the last chance they have of possibly stopping the implementation of the ACA. It is Go Time/Do or Die/Photo Finish and any other cliche you can possibly think of for the Grand Old Poopers. If they don't stop it now, in just a few months the force of the ACA will come into play and then that horrible and dangerous thing called FACTS will come into play. Rhetoric and Hypotheses will be replaced with actual information. Good or bad, right or wrong, we will know for a FACT if Obamacare actually performs as advertised. Scary huh?

As an ending note (B-Sharp), I can't help but imagine all of the side/back stepping that is going to happen whichever side turns out to be right. How many Damnocrats will suddenly claim that they were against the ACA the whole time and fought it tooth and claw. How many Reboobicans will scream, “No no, I supported the idea all along, it was THOSE guys who opposed it” if Obamacare actually works. Pollytickans are generally more flexible than a gymnast when it comes to covering their own butts. Just a thought.

End of Rant