Discussion: Cotton Calls BS On House GOP Repeal Plan: 'There Is No Three-Phase Process'

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Maybe it’s starting to dawn on Tom that we’re his platoon and some of us will die as he leaves his sensible khakis behind and ascends into the heady, French-cuffed Mitch McConnell lifestyle.
I’m glad his tiny Republican heart grew two sizes that day…

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Science students note: The long neck is an adaptation for eating from high-limbed trees at the country club.

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Ahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaa!

There’s blood in the water now.

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How dare he speak the truth?

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Things fall apart. Excellent.

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I confess to taking pleasure in witnessing Republican cannibalism…

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There really is a 3-step process! I swear, guys! The first was just inserting it. Step two is when we kick it in, and step 3 is when you feel it hit the back of your teeth.

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It’s the SmartBeard ™. If he takes up a SmartPipe ™, he might become the liberal lion of the Senate and solve the gravity-quantum theory problem.

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The evolution of Tom Cotton is fun to watch. “In the long run, we will all be dead” said Lord Keynes. And Tom Cotton is finding out what Richard Nixon once said that in the end we are all Keynesians.

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Don’t be fooled. This man speaks out of ambition for the highest office, not out of empathy. He is smart enough to know that eveyone involved will be held accountable if they pass this POS bill into law.

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Wonder which of the Koch Boys has the shiniest knob courtesy of IchabodCottonMouth.?

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Just waiting for Trump to leave Paul Ryan hanging out there on his own.

As much as I don’t care for Trump, I find Ryan’s fakeness, callousness, and mendaciousness more grating.

Edit: Even his muscles are fake. Meaning they’re for show, not for anything useful.

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“They’re right that coverage levels will go down in the coming years
under the House bill. They’re also right, I’m afraid, that insurance
premiums will continue to go up in the near term, for three to four
years, before they start perhaps falling in the long term,” he said.
“However, I suspect that the political consequences of those near term
changes means that the long term will never actually arrive.”

This time it is a little less direct, but this is the second time in the last couple of days he has give public warning to politically losing at least one chamber of commerce - NEXT election (ala ‘before three to four years’) due to this legislation. Interesting. Maybe Tehran Tom is finally gaining some political insight.

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I hear that.

Here he is, in one of the most powerful positions in our government, daily demonstrating what a weak-willed poser he really is.

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Yes. More specifically, I think Cotton is aiming at hurting potential opponents for a presidential run in Ryan and Cruz…who he has essentially boxed out of this debate so far. And at the same time, he is raising his profile within the GOP Senate and the public at large.

Like I said earlier, Cotton is being very shrewd about this. And is the GOPer who worries me the most, looking forward.

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Half-truths, but at least that’s something. What is his game?

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“He argued that the CBO has “pretty consistently overestimated” Obamacare’s coverage,”

Will someone explain to me how this Republican talking point helps their cause? If it were true that the CBO pretty consistently overestimated O-care coverage, then what follows? That they are likely to be overestimating Trumpcare coverage too? “Don’t worry folks, 24 million people won’t lose their health insurance. It will probably be 30 million!”

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Price’s promise that “everyone will have access to coverage” is ridiculous.

Everyone may have “access” to a Rolls Royce showroom, but it doesn’t mean everyone can afford one.

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