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On Friday, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas and an ally of President-elect Donald Trump's, said on NBC's "MTP Daily," "I don't think we can just repeal Obamacare and say we're going to get the answer two years from now." Hours later, another Republican echoed him, saying that the strategy to repeal, then replace is not wise.

Senator Bob Corker, R-Tennessee, told reporters Friday, "I think the president-elect's position was the right position and again if you look at some of his quotes recently, he continues to offer caution, as it relates to this, that in fact in the campaign he said repeal and replace should take place simultaneously. That to me is the prudent course of action."

McConnell seems to be digesting his members' concerns. In December, he indicated that replacement could take time, saying that after repeal is complete, "what comes next is what comes next. Then we will determine what the replacement is going to be."

But on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday, McConnell said Republicans "will be replacing it rapidly after repealing it." When pressed on a timeline, McConnell refused to provide specifics, saying only it would be "very quickly."

Dent said that he and many members of the Republican conference saw Trump's tweets Friday morning where he cautioned Republicans in their replacement efforts. Trump told them to "be careful" because Democrats currently own the health care law.

"I saw that as a flashing yellow light like caution to not move precipitously," Dent said.

Dent and Corker both admitted separately Friday that a full repeal of all the tax provisions of the ACA would mean that Republicans would have to re-insert those taxes in any replacement bill to pay for their version.

"That means Republicans would have to vote for a tax increase. Now y'all been here for a while and understand how unlikely that is," Corker said.

Well they can easily resolve their jitters by doing nothing at all. Obamacare is collapsing on its own, with a flight of insureers from the various state exchanges, and fast rising rates - a result of the many absurdities and contradiction built into the law by its "progressive" authors (Including DNC chair John Podesta whoused "PASSWORD" as hi password on his hacked e mail account. To survive past November Obamacare will need an infusion of hundreds of billions in new Federal subsidies.

That's rich coming from someone who insisted that Obama didn't own anything "given to him" by the Bush Administration.

So accept my invitation to go on the record that Obama and his supporters' blaming Bush for every problem he faced, and constantly using the dodge of "I inherited this problem from Bush..." was intellectually dishonest and irresponsible.

No, I agree that Trump and the GOP now "own" every problem America faces and that it is their responsibility to do whatever they can to fix them. If they can't they should be judged to have failed.

I just find it amusing that any liberal tries to make this case when all of them were desperate to inoculate Obama from the problems he "inherited."

After 8 year some of them are still peddling this dodge.