Eliana Johnson: Republicans Were Not Prepared to Expend Political Capital In Order to Pass Health Care

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JOHNSON: "Well one thing I don’t think has been sufficiently appreciated is that the Democrats expended an enormous amount of political capital to pass ObamaCare. It took 13 months to craft the law. President Obama talked about it incessantly. He was mocked by Republicans for pounding away at it. Democrats lost 63 seats in Congress, six seats in the Senate. I don’t know if Republicans were mentally prepared, if they cared about it so much to expend that kind of political capital and to know, 'Okay, precisely because they’re doing something unprecedented, taking away an entitlement, we might lose the House. We might lose the Senate for doing this.' Do they care about it that much? I’m not sure."