Can Republicans govern if they can’t keep a promise they’ve made for 7 years?

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House Speaker Paul Ryan said that “Obamacare is the law of the land,” after the GOP health care plan was pulled on Friday. “We came really close today, but we came up short,” Ryan said.

 Republicans exulted in November when they won the White House and both congressional chambers, promising aggressive moves on health care, taxes and immigration.

But a spectacular stumble on the first agenda item amid intra-party squabbles begs the question of whether the party will be able to get anything done if it can’t deliver on a promise it has made for nearly a decade.

“We were a 10-year opposition party, where being against things was easy to do,” said House Speaker Paul Ryan, faced with the biggest loss of his career. “And now in three months’ time we tried to go to a governing party. We will get there, but we weren’t there today.”

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For anyone curious about the answer to the question Can Republicans govern if they can’t keep a promise they’ve made for 7 years - the answer, completely substantiated by their planned chaos, confusion, and utter contempt for the electorate who put them in their office of power is - NO!