[TheRealThing]

Nothing Democrats have said or will say in the future will justify Republicans reneging on their promise to repeal Obamacare.

Republicans have no control over what Democrats say about them, but they do control Congress and it is time for McConnelll and Ryan to start delivering bills to Trump that are faithful to conservative Republican values. If they can't do that, then it is time for them to get out of the way and give somebody else a shot. So far, they have been worse than useless.

Exactly right. But laying the concerns of everybody else aside for a sec, there are enough moderate Senators to stymie the whole thing by their lonesome. Take Rob Portman for example, even with the enhanced Medicaid spending INCREASES he's still saying no, because he wants even more. Susan Collins will never back anything other than ObamaCare. Rand Paul would likely only vote for his own bill. Dean Heller and Shelley Moore Capito are two more who you know as well as I do would never support a conservative bill, even if it was as eloquently drawn as the Holy Bible. You couldn't even get the darn thing to a reconciliation vote, much less mark-ups, much less a floor vote. That leaves you with 47 theoretically, add Pence to that to make it 48 and the bill is still dead as a hammer.

That little slice of reality leaves you standing in the shoes of Mitch McConnell.