Hugh Hewitt finally catching on that to the extent the GOP even exists, it can't stand being in the majority and is counting the minutes til 2014 when the House goes back to their pal Obama

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4/12/13, "Forfeiting the House: How The House GOP Began To Lose the 2014 Elections," Hugh Hewitt

"In an almost-impossible-to-believe collapse of principle and political smarts, the House GOP appears committed to stalling out the bipartisan effort to repeal the onerous, job-destroying medical device tax.

In an interview with me on Thursday, House GOP Deputy Whip Peter Roskam attempted to explain why the House Republicans would not be moving a stand-alone repeal bill, even though the Senate’s test vote on repeal passed by a 79-20 margin the week before the Easter recess began.

The transcript of my interview with Roskam is here.

A week ago Roll Call’s David Drucker had reported that House Ways and Means Committee Chair David Camp was opposed to moving the repeal bill through the committee and to the floor quickly,

but a series of interviews with other Ways and Means Committee members as well as Mitch McConnell’s appeal to the House to pass a stand-alone repeal bill appeared to set the stage for quick House action on the measure.  Why, after all, would the GOP endanger its signature issue of tax reduction, especially when the Senate was poised to agree?

That is the politics of self-destruction, and it was simply impossible to believe that even the so-called “stupid party” could be so dumb.

Well, it now appears to be, and the reasons Roskam advanced for not moving repeal are not only not persuasive but in fact verge on the incoherent.  The very savvy Roskam was trying to argue that the House couldn’t pass repeal because Harry Reid might hijack the repeal bill and send a different bill to the House-Senate conference.  This is utter nonsense, of course, because Senate Republicans could block such a measure, and even if they didn’t the House would be under no obligation to approve the disfigured repeal.  The Camp-Roskam argument appears to be, then, that the House GOP cannot pass a simple bill for fear of getting tricked later, but that it can be trusted to pass a complicated tax overhaul sometime in the future but not get tricked in the course of that House-Senate conference.

Right.

There are explanations for this bizarre decision to snatch defeat from the the jaws of victory, but what is truly amazing is that Speaker Boehner, Leader Cantor and all the other House GOP members are willing to let Chairman Camp endanger their majority because he doesn’t want to proceed now with a narrow medical device tax repeal that is manifestly great and urgently needed policy and good politics.

If the leadership does not overrule Chairman Camp and oblige a clean repeal bill –which is already supported by a majority of the House– to issue from the Committee,  every single House Republican will suffer damage to their credibility, re-election chances, and of course their own self-respect.  Real jobs are being lost by real people, genuine hardships are happening and the nation is losing a crucial edge in a crucial industry, but the House GOP is fiddling and spouting absolute nonsense.

The idea of volunteering time to, much less contributing to a party this lost in Beltway absurdity is ludicrous.  How can any House GOPer expect anyone to take them seriously when they refuse to do the most obvious things?" via Free Republic

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Ed. note: The bottom line is the GOP loves ObamaCare, has always loved it, has no intention of messing with it.

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