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Local GOPers, who for SOME weird reason are still convinced I am a Republican, are almost purple with fury when they talk about Obamacare but they go pale when the prospect of repealing it comes up and start making all kinds of excuses. That is because Obamacare has become Social Security Mark II; in other words, INSTANT DEATH if you touch it.
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Iāll never understand why these thugs feel the need to make a career out of hating humanity.
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Iāll never understand why these thugs feel the need to make a career out of hating humanity.
They are simply catering to their like minded supporters/donors.
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Voting on leislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act is now cattorgized as a mental illness. It meets thesymptom requirements perfectly. Repeatedly doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different outcome. Time to put them in a mental institution. Oh wait, we canāt, Ronald Reagan changed the rules and closed most of the mental hospitals first in California as govenor and then across the country as president.
Maybe this mesmerization therapy will help them come up with somethingā¦
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That is why the abbreviation RWNJ includes the last two letters.
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Make it stopā¦
Wait
I can!
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This isnāt difficult. Just write a bill that:
Defunds Planned Parenthood
Eliminates the ACA
Eliminates the minimum wage
Eliminates the department of commerce
Eliminates the department of education
Eliminates the IRS
Eliminates OSHA
Eliminates the EPA
Makes unions illegal
Makes gun ownership mandatory
ā¦and send the damned thing to the White House. How hard can it be?
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I know what they will doā¦
keep Oācare but give it a totally acceptable name that resonates with their dum bass voters.
Suggestions welcome.
The one selected will win an all paid 1-week vacation to Kansas
The runner up will win an all paid 2-week vacation to Cape Giradeau MO.
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āI am very concerned about the 160,000 people who had Medicaid expansion in my state. I have difficulty with that being included,ā said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), according to The Hill.
The hell with the other folks on Medicaid in Red states who have been locked out of health care. What about those āin my stateā? How narrow minded can these dweebs get?
āI want to make policy, not a political point,ā an unnamed GOP senator told The Hill.
Unnamed for a reason: you canāt work for the Repubs and go around saying stuff like this.
Groan.
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Republicans have spent seven years trying to pass a bill that is guaranteed to be vetoed
Seriously, why not scratch some bullet points on a napkin, submit that, and save time drafting thousands of pages of drivel?
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The country PAYS them for this garbage.
Obamacare repeal isnāt going ANYWHERE!
The 2016 election will end Republican leadership in the Senate, and that will likely be the end of this repeal nonsense.
Health Achievement and Life Freedom Act to Subvert Socialism, a fitting acronym to the GOP approach to governance.
Topeka, here I come!
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Soon after the House bill passed, Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT), Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) said they would oppose a bill that didnāt fully repeal Obamacare.
Itās the best of all worlds for these guys. They stay ideologically pure to their conservative base while ensuring nothing actually ever gets done and nobody gets mad at them for taking away their healthcare.
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Very hard! Youāve just listed the really easy parts. The hard part now is what to name the bill. See, itās all about how to wrap policy that would kill lots of people and ruin the economy up into a nice little well-worded package that your average Rush Limbaugh listener would be all giddy for. Something like āThe Super American Awesome Ninja Beer and Big Truck Freedomy The Troops America is Awesome NASCAR Bald Eagle Awesome Freedom Guns Everywhere Defeat ISIS Act of 2015ā.
āI am very concerned about the 160,000 people who had Medicaid expansion in my state. I have difficulty with that being included,ā said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), according to The Hill.
Iād LOL at the hypocrisy, but hypocrisy is, at this point, the very fiber and backbone of the GOP, so what would be the point?
Bill Kristol seems to be always wrong, but he certainly recognized, in 1993, that actually providing a mechanism by which many people could be insured would be very very very difficult to get rid of.
Bill and his cronies (hello, Andy Sullivan and Betsy Whatshername) were effective in derailing the effort then. Theyāve lost, now. Patience, poppit.
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Agreed. They are AWESOME grifters. When will their supporters realize that theyāre just all marks?