These are the fumbling, bumbling actions of lying Republican politicians to put a bandaid on a crisis they created, and their president inflames. Shame on all of them.
At some point, we should just elect some retired NFL punters. Get some real professionals into these positions.
Lord knows the GOP doesnât know how to do anything else.
We canât just throw money at the problem,â Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told reporters Wednesday.
You fucking cretin, how else do solve a major social-governmental program? Pray? Throw rice? This is pure GOP mental inertia. News flash - money is a tool for accomplishing public works ya cheap bastard.
The GOP broke it.
They own it.
This fiddle-f*cking around and wanting the Democrats to buy into their half-assed 'solution(s) is/are totally bogus.
This will be just another GOP melodrama.
Keep it that way.
âWe will eventually repeal Obamacare and put something better in its place. In the meantime I think itâs very important that we donât see any Americans get hurt,â Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), a staunch critic of the Affordable Care Act, told reporters. âIâm not interested in hurting any American and taking away anybodyâs health care.â
I guess âever since last weekâ at the end of the quote got dropped in editing. 
Ron Johnson is dumber than a bag of tacks. I truly donât know how he functions day to day.
But they can always agree to throw money for a fucking wall on our border, even for one in which people were told they wouldnât have to pay for in the first place. tRump claims thereâs â80% stoppageâ and yet still these Pukes will insist on spending our money to appease the nonsense coming from this nutjob, even when its built on nothing more than lies.
Why not? You wasted 6 years when you could have begun working on longer term solutions for our most expensive in the world health care. How about reversing your idiotic law that prevents Medicare from negotiating the price of drugs?
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), who chairs the committee that oversees health care policy, is shopping around a proposal to appropriate funding for the CSRs for one year
This is how Republicans govern - short term funding, 90 day appropriations, government shutdowns, sequestration, one crisis to the next.
One-Year Fix To Stabilize Insurance Markets
And the year after that
And the year after that
And the year after that
And the year after that
I can see where this is going.
They think they can push it off and it will go away
âAmid deep uncertaintyâŚCongress may take matters into its own hands.â
You mean these whack jobs actually think the Founders designed our system to put Congress in charge?
As if the role of representative democracy is toâŚoh, I donât know, maybeâŚrepresent the People?
Or that the role of the Executive is to âtake care that the laws be faithfully executedâ?
Instead of subverting, sabotaging, and undermining the Supreme Law of the Land for personal gain?
Why, thatâs just crazy talk!
Thoughts and prayers.
For their part, Democrats are eager for Congress to take the issue out of Trumpâs hands, but say the one-year time frame is inadequate.
âInsurance companies want to know that these payments will be there not just this year, but next year,â Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) told reporters Wednesday. âThey make long-term decisions when they choose what rates to set and how long to stick around. We should set our sights higher than just fixing this for a year.â
If a deal can be reached, without giving away anything of real consequence, that will stabilize and strengthen the ACA for a couple of years, leaving it in place to become part of the fabric of peopleâs lives a little longer, creating an environment of working together to make other âfixesâ rather than crazy moves to try to blow it upâŚwell, that could be a good thing. It makes it even harder to play the repeal/repeal-replace game. And I think Democrats are well-aware that they have to watch the Republicans every step of the way and cannot believe a word they say or any promises made. Itâs gotta go down on written legislation thatâs fully debated and signed. Not holding my breath, but got my fingers crossed (until they cramp or I need to use a fork).
âIâm not interested in hurting any American and taking away anybodyâs health care.â- Sen.Kennedy (R-LA)
Sure you are, you just want to pick WHO gets hurt and WHO gets their health care taken away. You know, THOSE people.
That one sure did jump out at you. They just canât let go of the cheap rhetoric. Obviously they see that they need to help their own voters by making sure a vital benefit is paid for. But they still call it âthrowing money at the problem,â as if the money provided that necessary benefit and was also regrettably wasted, Schrodinger style.
âThe Beutler Conjectureâ
Bless your heart, a hopeless romantic!
Guess the GOP thinks Trump will be gone in a year.
âA yearâ isnât stabilization. âLetâs fix the leaking tire for the next mileâ isnât fixing the tire.