Paul Krugman: GOP candidates can’t attack Obama because of party’s disastrous record of predicting his failures
In his column on Monday, Paul Krugman tackled the problem that the GOP candidates in last week's first presidential debate couldn't -- the fact that President Barack Obama's signature policy, the Affordable Care Act, is an overwhelming success.
It was only mentioned nine times during the debate, which is -- depending on how you tally efforts to defund and repeal it -- at least 45 fewer times than Republicans have voted to dismantle it. There was a good reason that the candidates skirted the issue, Krugman said, and that's because "[o]ut there in the real world, none of the disasters their party predicted have actually come to pass."
"President Obama just keeps failing to fail," he continued, and the fact that more people are insured, and that they are, "by and large, please with their coverage," means that Republicans can't go after the program and have any chance of winning the general election.
