And then all the voters got back was the answer that, oh, sorry, the GOP had been lying. After seven years of promising (let me write that seven times, once for each year: promising, promising, promising, promising, promising, promising, promising) that Republicans had a better plan, a different plan, any plan to improve Obamacare, we just found out otherwise. What they, in fact, had was a plan to get power. With that power they hoped to conceal tax cuts for the rich as health-care reform, pass it quickly before anybody noticed and then hope for the best. Didn’t quite work out.

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So now they stand there — no, now they lie there, fallen, having tripped on their pants, which are down around their ankles — with the best “who, me?” look they can manage. They look around for scapegoats, but there are only elephants. What to do? What’s their next move? Repeal Obamacare and not replace it? Proceed to tax “reform”? No.

Apologize and go away. You are thoroughly discredited on your signature issue. You picked the issue. You defined it. You made the promises. You did the lying. You got the power, under completely false pretenses. Apologize to former president Barack Obama. Apologize to the American people. And then go away. Come back when you’ve learned how to stop lying. New platform. New candidates. Then we can talk.