Max Baucus on Obamacare: "I just see a huge train wreck coming..."

[pampango]

36. Which mainstream republicans hate Obamacare? Which don't. All their public statements and votes

in congress indicate that they hate Obamacare.

Or is "mainstream" a trick adjective here. 'Any republican who hates Obamacare is not 'mainstream''.

The 2012 GOP platform proposed eliminating Obamacare. The Texas state GOP party platform had the same thing. The House of Representatives votes about every two weeks to repeal Obamacare. About half the republican governors have refused federal Medicaid money on the principle that they don't want Obamacare in their states. It survived in the Supreme Court with all 4 liberal votes and 1 vote from the 5 conservatives.

I suppose that the GOP party platform drafters, the Texas GOP, the republican house members and half the republican governors are not 'mainstream' enough, much less all the state and local republicans who, at least in my area, never have a nice thing to say about Obamacare.

Is there some secret republican support for Obamacare that I have missed? Or are they just playing more of that 3D chess with us poor Democrats and their poor conservative base? Proclaiming constantly that they want to repeal it; voting every chance the get to eliminate it; but they secretly love Obamacare and are happy that it passed with no republican votes.

Or is this one of those - "If I hate something republicans must love it (even without evidence of that). Otherwise the world just does not make sense."?