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Earlier this month, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said, “If my side is unable to agree on an adequate replacement, then some kind of action with regard to the private health insurance market must occur.” You can bet “some kind of action” is nothing more than a great, big bailout of insurance companies that comes with no Obamacare relief for the middle class, no lifting of the individual mandate, no lifting of the employer mandate, and not one dollar of tax relief.

Then Republicans will be stuck with Obamacare, stuck with the price tag of a big insurance industry bailout, and — the cherry on top — they’ll shoulder the blame for not fixing the problem when they had the chance.

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Refusing to support the bill because it doesn’t completely repeal Obamacare is like catching a fish and throwing it back because it wasn’t a mermaid or sending a horse to the glue factory for not being a unicorn. Full repeal of Obamacare will remain a mythical, fantasyland option until somebody invents a device that converts Rand Paul’s libertarian idealism into Senate votes. Sans the Rand-izer 3000, there’s no Door #4 with full repeal behind it. I wish there were. There should be. They promised one. But no amount of political foot-stamping can make it so.

Democrats are ready with the fireworks and party-poppers to celebrate the failure of this bill because it closes Door No. 1, hands them a #resist legislative victory, cements the gigantic new entitlement Obama created, and undermines the Republican administration they hate.

Eddie Zipperer is an assistant professor of political science at Georgia Military College and a regular LifeZette contributor.[lz_pagination]