Passing the buck by including language preauthorizing the senate to make changes the house members don’t have the guts to make? Weak. And somehow both patronizing and nasty to the senators. Ryan couldn’t lead a dog on a leash.
This passes though.
This isn’t a matter of spite towards President Obama. This isn’t an exercise of taking credit for Obamacare.
This is a matter of taking that $600 billion dollar to $ trillion dollar tax cut for the wealthy that goes along with repeal. This is the cheapest replacement bill that will pass.
If they can make about 10 more changes they can achieve a passable bill. Essentially it will be just minor tweaking to the ACA…
This all makes Trump look terminally chaotic.
Maybe that is Putin’s plan all aong?
Create a lampoon President by stroking a chickenshit psuedo-billionaire who is willing to sell American real estate to anyone with a dirty ruble? And even more excited about taking back benefits The People finally forged from our greedy Republican-managed congress.
Why waste Russian time ridiculing us, to elicit global contempt, when Trump does it all by his little ol’ lonesome in frantic, manic tweetstorms in the wee hours of the day?
Republicans are living in a bubble that is about to burst. How many of them are counted with the rest of the treasonous traitors is the only question remaining.
And they all think this is about healthcare.
Adding spending and subtracting revenue by the “fiscally conservative party” yet again…
House Republicans are Trump-drunk.
They’re high on their own Kool Aid…
The Republicans will fall in line and vote the bill. Senate too. After a lot of huffing and puffing, they always do. The Party has already been embarrassed enough. They need some kind of “win” right now to save face.
This is really fucking stupid. It’s needlessly complicated and isn’t about care - it’s about taxes.
If they really gave a shit about health care, they’d take the profit out of the system. I want to hear ONE reporter ask one of these GOP mooks how much profit is in the system. HOW MUCH?
Because we’re all paying for it. And FUCK THAT NOISE.
This is like building a railroad using seven different track gauges. They have been doing this from the start EVERY time they come up with some hokey “replace” proposal.
“Oh…you like pre-existing conditions and staying on your parents plan until age 26? Sure we’ll add that.”
They keep doing that over and over without ever admitting that Obamacare is complex and that the various pieces were designed to work together. Take away the overall mandate to have coverage and anything you do after that is essentially nonsense in terms of crafting any kind of workable and affordable plan.
And now here they are, working at the macro level to draft various bits and pieces of language to get Cong. Butthead from East Ignorance, OH and Sen. Beavis from New Highway Interchange, MT to sign on, at least long enough to get this mish mash mooshed through the legislative process.
If there was ever a pure symbol of mendacity and cant, it is Mr. Ryan. At least John Boehner can laugh when anybody talks about repeal and replace and then admit there never has been any kind of workable replace because of the far right wing of the party and its obstinance. And he can laugh about it because he is retired.
Ryan meanwhile, earnestly talks about achieving what he “has dreamed about” for years, without smiling or admitting that what he has dreamed about is gutting Obamacare and Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security and food stamps and pretty much everything else because the wealthy just don’t have enough…and of course freedom…
Excellent post, one correction.
Not true, remember no one in the USA knew how complex it was until Trump admitted it a few weeks ago… Damn he’s smart…
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Vladimir Putin did not support Trump because he wanted to have a strong and effective U.S. President, who would defend our interests and those of our friends and allies.
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A little lipstick and an earlier tax cut was all it took to make the bill the pig of the Freedom Caucus’s dreams.
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