We’re still fighting the Civil War. They’re still pissed off that we took their slave economy from them.
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Greg Sargent just tweeted that Ron Johnson said on CNN that GOP leaders will likely get moderates to vote for the bill by offering them more money.
Blood money. Good luck next year if they change their position.
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The only glimmer of hope I have of this genocide not being enacted is Moran’s feckless self preservation move. That’s where Kansas is now, slowly turning left after the Sam Bownback experience. Moran is trying to save the Republican Party in his State while saving his own skin.
He has prioritized survival, the rats are going off the sides of the ship. Only Moran felt he needed to do it when it mattered, in order to gain PR that could save him from voters in Kansas.
That’s new, and a huge positive sign.
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“There seems to be a real philosophical divide…"
between the fascist and protofascist wings of the party.
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Not that I hope you’re wrong, and hell, I already am. I was certain last week that this bill would be law by this Friday, but remember the The Josh Marshal Rule. Republican moderates always cave. It hasn’t been wrong yet. So the way I see it, the bill moves right, and they give the middle some “to be named later” concession and boom, it’s the ACHA debacle all over again.
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So far, it just looks like they’re playing the House’s strategy. Put up a front with a rushed vote hype, exhaust the competition, instead of letting it die, don’t bring it to a vote – wait a month or so, come back and then just push it through. The mods got their chance to publicly say “it wasn’t so groovy” as a “factual” buffer against claims that they didn’t fight for their people’s medicare; the opposition, meanwhile, is worn down even more – if only by having to constantly pitch the same battles.
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Every time I see a picture of that testudinal* motherfucker, I want to piss in his goddamned, arrogant face. But then I realize he would probably really enjoy that.
*Look it up on Google. It’s THE new word for McConnell. Start a trend, peeps!
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But time is increasingly going to work against them.
They have a summer recess coming up, a budget bill to produce, a debt ceiling decision looming.
I don’t want to sound overly optimistic, but it appears that time is not on their side.
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I think the Democrats ought to invite Trump to speak to the whole Senate, to take questions and defend the bill.
How can McConnell say no?
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That would be funnier than “Some Like It Hot” and “Young Frankenstein” combined!
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I would be perfectly happy not buying liability insurance for my car. I’m a safe driver with an excellent driving record. Why do i need liability insurance just to drive a car? Why does the government force me to spend money when all of the essential facts do not support this need for me to buy liability insurance? Is it just to ensure that other people aren’t liable for my damages if i do happen to cause an accident?
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I still expect McConnell to call for a surprise vote late on Thursday night before they leave town for the July 4 recess. He just needs a day or so for the vociferous opposition to die down a bit. We cannot let up in resisting.
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Why shouldn’t we have essentially the same ‘right’ to universal healthcare that all of the other industrialized nations of the world have had for decades? That’s too fantastic for you? I feel bad for you.
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Respectfully, who cares what’s in their rotten hearts? We’ve seen the numbers, they’ve seen the backlash. They know where their electorates stand on the bill, and they are responding to it by sticking up for their voters for once. That’s good; that’s how it’s supposed to work. It should happen more, and perhaps it will.
Republican governors are at last doing God’s work. Even Kansas – the hallowed laboratory of Republicanism – is starting to reject and overturn some of their experiments because it’s become impossible to pretend they are working. Same thing happened to Joe Arpaio. I don’t know if this is a trend or a hiccup, but we should all be heartened.
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Say goodbye, Beej.
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The Republicans uniting on a budget bill and working on the debt ceiling issues should both be entertaining all on their own.
In a terrifying sort of way.
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Ill bet they pass it and suffer very little. That’s how it is now. There’s plenty of time before the next election to '‘work’ the people harmed buy the bill and the 1 % that benefit from it will be more than willing to fork over the cash needed to get that '‘work’ done. It’ll cause a mess that with help from the MSM will be blamed on Obama and the ACA. There are folks that make millions fixing stuff like this and I’m sure they’re hard at work right now.
As for retribution from their constituencies…won’t matter. There are wads of Republican’s in the electorate that know what this bill is going to do and they like that. They want that. The GOP base is going to stick with Mitch at al so the loss of a few votes from folks made to suffer by his actions won’t matter much.
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He doesn’t have to say no. He just keeps his gavel at rest. Trump doesn’t have to defend the bill nor should he be made to until he sighs it. After that it’s his.
Well, Trump making a public appearance to defend the bill would be a complete disaster, right? Democrats should invite the chance.