History will record this as The WTF Administration.
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No.
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Haven’t these Republicans gotten the party’s memo? The modern GOP exists to make people’s lives miserable.
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Oh, I’m sure that’s what they meant to do.
Grassley’s claim at the 1:15 mark in particular: “The last time we voted for repeal was when McCain voted the other way…” Just to refresh your memory, that predates the 2017 Tax Bill by four or five months and one heck of a big funeral for the former Senator and presidential nominee.
That video from Grassley’s recent town hall is a must see, by the way. He explicitly talks about this court challenge.
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Republicans needed to be careful what they wished for.The DOJ argument isn’t that bad. It cuts the guts out of Robert’s rational for preserving the ACA. The case will find its way to the Supreme Court before the next election. While the direct loss of health coverage for 20,000,000 is bad the loss of the pre-existing conditions protection provided by the ACA will bring everything crashing down on the heads of elected Republicans. The repeal of the ACA in the next 18 months means a lot of Republican officeholders will no longer be employed in the government.
My guess is a lot of Republican senators are going to get behind Senators Bennett and Kaine’s expanded Medicare X plan with added language about pre-existing conditions. Being bipartisan it could be something that Pelosi would find hard to resist in the house as well. The question is whether McConnell is smart enough to understand that the current Republican position in favor of repealing the ACA without a replacement is a political loser for every elected Republican.
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At first they pretended that they had a “better” plan than the Democrats. But that was a long time ago. Now, they’ve dropped that pretense and their base has forgotten that was ever a promise. All that matters is being against anything the Democrats are for.
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It’s very simple - Trump hates the ACA because it’s Obama. He wants it destroyed because that is all he knows how to do. He does not care how many people are harmed or die, nor whether his lickspittles in Congress agree or not. It’s a simple power game by a deranged mind. Why parse it any further?
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I have NO faith that they will do that since McConnell packed the benches with right wing racist RepubliKKKlans.
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It wanted to.
Robbery has to be done delicately, especially when aiming for the fat retirement nesteggs of sickly, elderly Republican voters. It has to be done quietly during naptime.
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Maybe I’m just really slow at catching on. I thought Trump was all about enough wealth to be able to project an even larger image of wealth. Now I see it’s all about raw power, and not even for the sake of other accomplishments. It’s about dominance, plain and simple. The level of (lack of) self confidence is staggering.
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Republicans’ failed attempt at repealing the Affordable Care Act in 2017 was a disaster, and helped Democrats take the House in 2018. The Senate GOP has shown no interest in trying again to find a replacement, even as the threat of this lawsuit looms.
I’ve come away with 2 axioms working as a Federal Security Guard.
- The world is made up of a helluva lot of really stupid people.
- Stupid people are the reason I still have a job.
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Simple solution. The House should reinstate the Individual Mandate on a a “Must Pass” bill. Say Border Protection.
Tell the Senate and White House you get both of these things, not one or the other.
With Mandate and Tax reinstated, court case is moot.
Particularly when Trump has also slashed advertising and help for people applying.
Which reminds me: who had the idea of not having some office to go to in order to get help applying for ACA plans? Instead there were “navigators” somewhere or other. When I recently started on Social Security it was all online. I wanted to get an answer from a human so I went to the local SS office. It was a large waiting room with little bank-like windows (only with sitting, not standing) all around it and down two halls. Three fourths of the windows were not being staffed, no doubt because the office was built twenty years ago when everyone had to go there to apply or get answer and today most just do everything online.
ACA reps should have been incorporated into SS offices so people who aren’t computer literate and others with questions would have had an actual place to go to apply or get answers.
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Probably should’ve been a “tax credit if you do” rather than “penalty if you don’t” but…variables.
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How were the chairs in waiting area? When I had to go to our local SS office to deliver some paperwork for someone, the chairs were the oldest, most beat up, uncomfortable chairs I have ever sat in. Made the DMV seating seem luxurious.
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Maybe we should change the name from the Affordable Care Act to the Unaffordable Care Act.
It is obvious that the GOP does not want anything that makes the majority of peoples’ lives any better.
The name change would throw them off for a few years… they don’t read very much beyond the first couple of words.
‘‘TPM could find only one Senate GOPer defending the DOJ position: Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), who said arguing for the whole law’s invalidation seemed to him a “more rational” position than arguing that only the pre-existing conditions protections be struck down.’’
The thing is, Hawley is right in one sense: it’s a lot more honest, logical and internally consistent to invalidate the entire law than it is to strike out the individual mandate and pretend that all will be fine, as the rest of the GOP is doing. Kudos for wingnut transparency.
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First time for everything, I suppose.
Hawley should be jailed for torturing logic.
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Yeah they’re making it easy for us. It may come sooner than we thought.
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Once again it is clear, the Trump “administration” and the GOP really do want to kill sick people.
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