Be Careful, Democrats. It is too soon to Crow..

Democrats need to be careful here.  Don't be comfortable the GOP will make a political hash of replacing Obamacare.  

Donald Trump laid out a threat to Republicans in the House.   We either pass this bill or I will "move on," he said.  It was an ultimatum and he put them, not him, on the spot.  I will look like I can govern and it will be you House members who look bad.

I hear Democratic pundits sounding sure Republicas will both fail to replace Obamacare and that they will look incompetent.  I agree they will fail, but not that they will failure politically. They are capable of joining with Trump to put a veneer of being able to be a party capable of governing. They might pass something and call it great.  It won't pass the Senate, so reluctant  House members need not worry the will be stuck with Trimpcare.  They will name the Democrats in the Senate as the villians.

And Democrats cannot yet pretend they are a united party.  They aren't.  The Sanders people and the establishment Democrats are as divided as the GOP.  The ideological purists of the Democratic left consider the establishment Democrats to be "corporate" and sellouts.  The Perez-Ellison split mirrors the Sanders-Hillary split.

Republicans became a party of protest and sold a majority of Americans on the idea that government does not work and that politicians are corrupt.  They did not simply convince Republicans.  They convinced Democrats.  They do not yet have a unified response to Trump.  Indeed, Democratic interest groups have been intransigent when contemplating deal making on the Gorduch nomination.  "Anything less than a gull commitment to resistance, including a filabuster of Judhe Gorduch, would be a betrayal of the communities you represent."

A college classmate, Alan Weisbard, said it nicely in a post to fellow classmates:

It is a hell of a lot easier to be an ideological purist when you don't have the responsibility for governing.

Today's Republicans are ideologically opposed to government, and have no talent for its practice.

Their brand for decades now is that government doesn't (and can't) work. They are doing their best to demonstrate the truth of that proposition.  And under their so-called management, the proposition is substantially correct.

We desperately need new management, committed to the proposition that government can work for the good of the people, and committed to making it work. Whether that describes contemporary Democrats is something of an open question.