After pledging to 'bury Obamacare,' Rep. Matt Gaetz shirks full repeal

Matt Gaetz likes to borrow from Billy Shakespeare. Channeling Mark Antony from “Julius Caesar” during one of his first-floor speeches recently, the Florida Republican declared that he came to Congress “to bury Obamacare, not to praise it.”

But just a few minutes ago, Gaetz supported a healthcare bill that preserves the bulwark of Obamacare’s regulatory architecture and creates an altogether new entitlement. If the Florida man felt like living up to his flowery oratory, he would have been the deciding vote against the bill.