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A great Native American philosopher — Tonto — once told Kemo Sabe that “Two wrongs don’t make a right.” <\/p>\n

The Lone Ranger’s sidekick was right. It also serves as a reminder of what’s happening today as congressional Republicans keep yammering for the end of the Affordable Care Act, citing the disastrous rollout as evidence of the law’s failure.<\/p>\n

Dial back to 2006, therefore, and let’s remind ourselves what many of those Republicans were saying about another big-government unveiling, an amendment to Medicare benefits, that didn’t go so well. It came under the guidance of a Republican administration led by President George W. Bush.<\/p>\n

Congressional Democrats were gleefully calling that rollout a disaster and were criticizing the Part D amendment to Medicare purely partisan grounds. That was the first wrong.<\/p>\n

Republicans sought to remind their Democratic “friends” that they all needed patience and needed to tweak the changes. Let’s not toss it all out, they urged. <\/p>\n

They tinkered with Medicare and today it’s working pretty well for the elderly Americans who rely on it.<\/p>\n

The ACA has had trouble getting off the ground. Who’s doing the yammering now? Republicans — on what appears to be purely partisan grounds. There, folks, is the second wrong.<\/p>\n

Democrats are now urging the same level of patience that the GOP sought seven years ago when President Bush sought to make changes to Medicare.<\/p>\n

Republicans are having none of it. They want the ACA tossed aside. It’s no good. It doesn’t work.<\/p>\n

Interesting, though, that they’ve made a judgment on a law that hasn’t been implemented fully.<\/p>\n

Tonto’s advice to the Lone Ranger is as sound now as it was when he said it in the old days.<\/p>\n\n

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