Republican senators led by disquietingly robotic Stepford Housewife Katie Britt are lobbying convicted felon President Trump to endorse a max three-year extension of Obamacare subsidies in what Punchbowl News reports is an admission that they’re going to get destroyed next year if they don’t figure something out but also that it would “buy time for Congress to pass a longer-term health care plan that mirrors the president’s preferences.” Copied that part verbatim to lol at the notion that the fat bastard has any “preferences” beyond eradicating “Obamacare” simply because of its name.

It’s been literally eight fucking years since Trump’s GOP tried and failed to repeal it and now that Donald has the opportunity to just let crucial portions of the landmark health law expire without having to do anything. There can be no question now that he would sooner see his supplicant majorities burn than sign a bill keeping Obamacare intact. That is unless the wind in those majorities blows in that direction and passage becomes inevitable. Then he’ll act like it was his idea all along.

Which – going by John Cornhole Cornyn saying he’s “not opposed to bipartisan deals. The problem is, Obamacare was never a bipartisan deal. Democrats seem to be saying you need to swallow this partisan bill that was sold under false pretenses. That’s unacceptable” – probably isn’t happening anytime soon. Think of how many GOP members in both chambers, Jesus Dork Mike Johnson included, got their careers started by campaigning against Obamacare back in the early 2010s.

“I see the political shop on the Democratic side just churning up all the very sympathetic stories that are gonna result if we don’t come up with a reasonable plan,” warned North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis, who doesn’t have to actually worry about that since he’s not running again. Yet he persists in concern for his GOP brethren, imploring them to abandon their commitment to “principle,” lol.