Months, they cant have a replacement. The democrats are very happy in some ways they are going to get rid of obamacare. This was the one big answer paul politically. This was one big answer, a new solution that was going to be revolutionary and change things for the better. Didnt work. They are happy. We had it for six years. Theyre happy to dump it off. Im more optimistic, there are a lot of pitfalls, we can go through them, if we have momentum, get one part down on the replace part, it creates the conditions for further things down the road. So i think that the main thing is that they need to show momentum. They have the repeal and show good things being done. Because our goal is not, the problem is, obamacare is like, closing down a nuclear plant. There is all this waste. You cant turn it off and walk away. You have to be careful with that waste because it can kill you in the meantime. So i think they just have to have the momentum. Paul the argument is, that you hear, and i hear is
early win despite the risks which are very real as joe described? absolutely. this has been their theme for six years in every election. elect us and we will repeal obamacare. so to come in and not make it a top priority would be political malpractice. i think they would risk losing the respect of a lot of voters that decided to trust them with washington. so they have to do this, and that put them in a little bit of a rock and a hard place. paul: that rock and a hard place is chuck schumer on the democratic side, bill, who is not going to cooperate i think, very much at all to help replace it and maybe some people on the right, ted cruz, others, rand paul this week says he doesn t want to help, repeal obamacare because it might add to the budget deficit. so you end up with a purists on the right saying i m never going to vote for tax subsidies, and chuck schumer, says i will never help you republicans at all, what happens, six months, nine months, they can t have a
the mix. kim what about this idea that the seat is stolen democrats are saying look, the republicans stole the set too because they never gave a vote to merrick garland president obama nominee since scalia died in february is this going to this is going to raise the temperatureture on the democratically opposition isn t it. it is, i mean this is going to be their mantra all the way through, that and justification for everything that they use to oppose republican nominee will partly be the ideology shuck schumer said out of mainstream partly hey you he never had the right to fill this seat because you took it from us. now, again, whether or not that washes, whether or not the pressure on some democrats grows to not obstruct what is by the any measure look, too this is important paul, this is a seat already held by a very conservative injuryist republicans will make that point, that they are simply
should have been doing it. this is you don t run in immediately say we ll tackle a priority they hadn t even talked about really publicly before. so he had a point and they scattered. you make a good point is that, he has got a lot of power via 140 characters on twitter and i think at times he may use that to impose some discipline. but it could spread a lot of disarray within the republican caucus too. i think this is leadership issue. the leadership said don t do this. the rank-and-file overruled them. they did it. and then they reversed themselves. they should have said if you don t want to do this, don t do it. makes it clear politicians on capitol hill are perfectly capable of running off the rails. i want to make a point in defense of donald trump s tweets and so forth. he wants to change washington. the washington doesn t move. the process extremely difficult. they would rather do nothing.
replacement. the democrats are very happy in some ways they are going to get rid of obamacare. this was the one big answer paul: politically. this was one big answer, a new solution that was going to be revolutionary and change things for the better. didn t work. they are happy. we had it for six years. they re happy to dump it off. i m more optimistic, there are a lot of pitfalls, we can go through them, if we have momentum, get one part down on the replace part, it creates the conditions for further things down the road. so i think that the main thing is that they need to show momentum. they have the repeal and show good things being done. because our goal is not, the problem is, obamacare is like, closing down a nuclear plant. there is all this waste. you can t turn it off and walk away. you have to be careful with that waste because it can kill you in the meantime. so i think they just have to have the momentum. paul: the argument is, that you hear, and i hear is, okay, we ll