MANGOTUS, channeling his inner General MacArthur, vows âWe Will Returnâ
Nobody listens to Orange Foolious anymore.
Dem Senators Dance On The Grave Of Senate GOPâs Obamacare Repeal Bill
One of TPMs dumbest headlines of the year. Yes, I love this site, but they do foist some god awful headlines on us.
Ted Lieu. The Man !
Posted last night:
When youâve got experienced leadership, this is what you get. Donât underestimate what these two did to grease the skids for Mitch.
(Always helps to have a chump for an adversary)
Honestly this isnât, or certainly doesnât have to be, an occasion for partisan jeering. I know plenty of people who directly benefit from the ACA and many who wouldnât have health insurance without it. Itâs a boon, a lifesaver, for millions. So this is a damned happy moment and a good one to see. If my many calls to Pat Toomey contributed not to a ânoâ vote but at least a sense of trepidation, Iâm glad. And if not at least I tied up a bunch of his staffersâ time. Itâs all good.
Answering the purity postersâ question, âWhat are Dems doooooooooooooing?â
They âdancedâ? WTHell writes these headlines? They were understandably happyâŚand relieved. Now they want to get back to work. You make it sound like they were needling and digging at the GOP. THIS is the crap that keeps dividing us.
And Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-VT) said there is still work to be done to protect health care, âa basic human right.â
We should not be dancing on any graves, we should be fighting for universal coverage. Senator Warren gets it right.
No one is dancing on any graves. Its a stupid headline. But you have to stop and take a moment to appreciate when youâve won a hard fought battle. It doesnât mean you stop fighting, but the joy of saving tens of thousands of lives, millions from financial ruin, and sparing many more the stress and anguish of worrying about their healthcare is worth celebrating, or else what are we fighting for? This is a big win. Donât diminish this victory and the work so many people put into it.
When did Liz Warren move to Vermont???
Itâs also important to tease and mock Republican failure when the head the Republican Party is so easy to inflame. Queue up another ten day brouhaha, keep running out the clock through the rest of this yearâs legislative calendar. Iâd rather have progress than the status quo, but preserving the status quo beats burning down the building.
While this was a great outcome, the Demâs now still officially âownâ Obamacare, and Donnie and his minions still have a multitude of ways to damage it to the point of collapse, while pointing at the Demâs for itâs failure.
Still nice to see Donnie take such a bugly yuge blowâŚ
You know what really, truly pisses me off about that line? Where the fuck was the media the last eight years when Republicans ran on nothing even remotely resembling a positive message? Where was this concern trolling in 2010 and 2014 when Republicans ran almost solely on âdestroy the black manâ? There really are two totally different standards for the parties.
I appreciate your point, but I also remember when the House Trumpcare bill was âdead.â It ainât over until it is over.
Only to the extent Trump doesnt publicly call for its failureâŚoh, wait, he did that
So what happens now? Repubs just repeal Obamacare, then Dems happily come to the table to help them construct some new awful conservative mess thatâs better than nothing? Yay?
But thatâs exactly it. The Republicans have effectively messaged against that 80 years of progressive effort. It doesnât matter that people like liberal policies better when the word liberal is used as an insult.
Dems desperately need repackaging and reframing to counter the faux libertarianism pushed by Ryan et al.
@pluckyinky The Reps justified all their obstruction by appealing to their core themes (I wonât call them beliefs, because theyâre not) of Freedom and Personal Responsibility. A fig leaf, sure, but enough to fool the rubes in the media.
Until the next Congress is seated, they can bring this thing back up at any time. But there does come a time when itâs all but dead. Considering the slate of must-pass bills coming due in September and what little will be left of the congressional calendar, itâs about as close to dead as itâs gonna get.