Sometimes I’m not sure what’s worse:  that the Democrats run on their “compassion” while systematically turning the part of their base not involved in high-stakes corporatism, public sector subsidies, and crony capitalism into dependents of the state; or the fact that the GOP establishment is so impotent and timid it can’t even articulate this very obvious condition to the American electorate.

Instead, they actively fight the conservatives pushing a last ditch effort from keeping ObamaCare from taking permanent root, demonizing the fighters and the base activists while essentially arguing to continue funding for things like this:

[…] “Obamacare”[…] will make it more difficult for parents of special-needs children to pay for tuition at special schools and to purchase medical equipment, according to a new report.

More than 30 million Americans place money into a pre-tax Flexible Spending Account (FSA) through their employers to help save emergency funds to pay for their families’ medical costs. Obamacare institutes a brand new $2,500 cap for FSAs, which will make more money taxable and could raise $13 billion in taxes for the federal government over the next decade.

“Before Obamacare passed, there was no limit to how much money you could put into your FSA at work,” Ryan Ellis, tax policy director at Americans for Tax Reform, told The Daily Caller. Ellis was inspired to perform research on the issue after hearing the complaints of a friend with a special-needs child.

“Most people don’t, but the one group that does put a lot of money into their FSAs is parents of kids with Down Syndrome, and parents of kids with physical disabilities,” Ellis said.

“Currently, if parents send their kids to a special school, the tuition is considered a qualified medical expense that can run through your FSA. If you have a kid who needs a durable piece of medical equipment that’s not covered by insurance, you can run that through your FSA,” Ellis said. “If FSAs had any limits before Obamacare, those were determined by the employer. The IRS had nothing to do with it.

“Obamacare creates a new $2,500 cap for FSAs,” Ellis continued. “That’s not going to affect most people, who just put in enough to pay for eyeglasses or dental work. But the one group that is being restricted is parents of special-needs children.”

Ellis said this technical change will add massive costs for parents.

“A big chunk of the tuition parents paid for special-needs schools used to be on a pre-tax basis. Now, they’re paying on an after-tax basis,” Ellis said.

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The White House did not return a request for comment.

Remarkably, Republicans terrified of a media attack can seemingly find nothing in an unread, hastily passed, unpopular, and unequally applied law that no one fully understands and that harms nearly every part of the economy and health care in general, to make their case to the American people that their attempt to fund all the government except ObamaCare is an attempt to save people’s health care, save their jobs, save businesses, and take the power of life and death decisions out of the hands of bean counters and those who would presume to decide, by some disinterested metric, the value of a human life.

Which is why what I and others have been saying is simple, unassailable, and factual:  any Republican who votes to include funding for ObamaCare in a CR is voting for ObamaCare.  They own it just as much as the Democrats do.  And it follows — for me at least — that they therefore want ObamaCare, as both an addition to federal power and as something they can continue to run against while never actually doing anything concrete to stop it.  That  is, they will use it as a fund raising tool.

Worse still, however, is that they know their constituency despises the law and wants them to act, but they pretend that acting is the wrong strategy, that the savvy political move is to…uh…well, you know.  They’ll get back to you on that.

For right now, though, if Reid and Obama were to shut down the government, the Republicans would be blamed by the media for shutting down the government.  Reid and Obama being Democrats whose hand was forced by their unwillingness to move on a law they want but can’t effectively or fairly implement, and that the American people wanted repealed as evidenced by the 2010 conservative uprising.

And that fear of misplaced blame is worse to Republican insiders than death panels and the cutbacks that will harm special needs children and a host of others who may soon be forced into exchanges.

Because they are useless.  Cowardly.  Cynical. And so full of shit that I’d bet even their hair stinks.