here is salon.com political editor blake zeff, national review senior editor and bloomberg columnist.ieb is still with us. let me go to you. all these glitches and problems mounting by the day. do you think this thing will die of its own weight or is it going to last and make it? >> well, i don't think that it's a sound strategy to wait for it to die of its own accord. it could take a long time, and it could inflict a lot of damage on its way down. i think the most likely outcome is a fairly disappointing set of results, but not a spectacular catastrophic failure all at once. >> blake zeff, not a catastrophic failure, but so many failures so, many disappointments, it's probably going to be a lot smaller than anybody dreamed. why shouldn't republicans want to amend this or even try to play rest place it? why not? >> i don't think there is any reason why they shouldn't try to amend it. i think that might be the best strategy for republicans. look, repeal is not happening. that's been tried legislatively, you know, they tried the supreme court. that didn't work out. they tried to threate