Spandex-wearing grapple-freak Jim Jordan definitely struggled under a sustained line of questioning from CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Tuesday about extending the Obamacare premium subsidies and goddamn he really had no good answers for her about what should be done to fix it.

The fact that he even went on CNN instead of staying in his Fox News/Newsmax safe space could speak to what the network’s website and Politico that night separately and distinctly reported was a growing realization among Republicans that, incredibly, Democrats are actually winning the shutdown fight, forcing Gymbo volunteering to step into hostile territory to attempt a reboot.

It took just over two minutes for Gym to retreat from asserting that Republicans could somehow come up with an Obamacare replacement before December and switch to spewing out the “Dems want healthcare for illegals” line of shit that he obviously would’ve led with if he thought it was going to work. On that, and it shouldn’t have taken this long for National Zero to ascertain the actual numbers on this, but it’s estimated in a KFF study from earlier this year that something like 0.35 percent of emergency Medicaid spending nationally goes to undocumented immigrants.

The upshot being that when the Trump Regime says “Democrats and their Fake News allies want you to believe it’s all a lie that Democrats shut down the government over free healthcare for illegal aliens,” they’re saying “We’re burning the village to save it” by wiping out roughly 8 percent of total Medicaid spending for needy Americans to kill off a fraction of a percent going to illegals.