Weasels in Retreat: 2015 GOP Annual Confab in Hershey, PA

Speaker Boehner and Sen. Majority "Leader" McConnell Q&A

Hang on, Barack Obama will be gone 

on January 20, 2017

From the GOP's annual party meeting ... “I note that the word retreat seems apropos...”

Republicans (there also) plotted a response if the Supreme Court knocks down health insurance subsidies for millions of Americans in the pending case. They've been tied in that knot or five years about any Obama-care alternative (that they can't seem to muster). The Court case adds urgency for them to find consensus ahead of a likely June ruling (could go either way, BTW).

Paul “Marathon” Ryan said, “We're obviously doing contingency planning for King v. Burwell. It would be wrong not to.” Then he added that there was no plan of action yet — but that discussions were ongoing (ha ...).

More broadly, the GOP “leaders” had a message for rank-and-file members: “Let's govern responsibly and focus on the art of the possible.”

Note: They seemed to downplay expectations for transformative changes while Obama remains president. 

Translation: Wait Obama out, and hope a GOPer wins the White House in 2016, and the GOP retrains their House and Senate majorities, and then go all out – balls to the walls as it were with all sorts of crazy bills and base pet projects (i.e., Koch payback if you like that word better).  

Hang on tight....it might get bumpy.