I hope they continue to turn guys like this on the spit for hours and hours, day in and day out. I hope it will make them avoid more town halls and I hope that more Dems do the âadopt a districtâ to get good info on the ACA out there where it needs to be gotten. I hope the Goopers get afraid to show their faces and that they get run out of offices for their misdeeds.
Thatâs a lot of hoping, I know, but I gotta stay optimistic or Iâll crawl under the covers for the next 3.5 years and not look out.
What I think is really in Dems favor is that weâre just a few short weeks away from summer. The worse things get for the regime, the hotter the outside temp gets, the more people for they can just vent to the Rethugs. By the end of the year, itâs time to actively work towards the midterms.
Itâs a good thing.
This âgapâ thing frosts my ass. The whole REASON for government health care is to take CARE of us and pre-existing conditions and having access when we DO have a âgapâ in employment. So we know a basic level of care. Itâs not to QUIT our jobs, to live off the dole (as per Orrin Hatch) or screw the government. Itâs to KNOW you have health care. Period. You shouldnât have to be a âslaveâ to your job because of health care. Even if you CHANGE JOBS generally there is a 90 day âgapâ in health care. What about THAT, MacArthur???
If heâs been in insurance for 30 years, then he knows that other countries manage to provide health care more affordably than the US. None is a precise fit for the US, but they are a damn sight closer than what he helped get passed in the House.
Also out of touch, Speaker Ryan, Rep Stivers and Tiberi:
âŚ> .Ryan said tax changes are needed so that more companies could follow Accelâs example of bringing good jobs back from overseas.
âWhat you have here embodies the American dream,â the speaker said.
Workers in the plant said they started at $10 an hour, while one, a team leader, said she made $14 an hour.
http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170510/ryan-talks-taxes-but-not-comey-firing-in-new-albany-visit
This guy is the anti-Jimmy Kimmel.
Kimmel has a son with a serious medical condition that thanks to resources available to him, affected a positive outcome. He extrapolates that experience to the general populace and wants everyone to have those resources.
This guy has a child with a different medical condition, albeit serious, but hasnât learned anything from that. Absolutely heartless.
âI am trying to save a system so it continues to help you,â MacArthur said, repeating the Republican line that the programâs expansion had created unsustainable growth.
The ACA Medicaid expansion has been so successful that it threatens to include all âthe poorsâ so the GOP had to do something to curtail this unsustainable growth. We know the best way to save the âsystem so it continues to help youâ is to cut $800 million from federal funding so the states can then make up the shortfall. Merely reciting, much less trying to explain, GOP logic must be painful.
Question: does MacArthur have (or currently believes he has) a fairly safe seat??
Or has he drunk RAynâs Koolaid and believes that this is his ticket to Gooper heaven? 'Cause heâs got a lot of hopping mad constituents there.
It is a fairly safe R district. Democrats are running a challenger (an Obama alum), though, and given his role in the bill he might have become a target.
These sessions prove that these reps like MacArthur are living in a brutally ignorant misinformation echo chamber. They have no fucking idea what is reality.
And worseâŚtheyâre completely and totally in control.
Excellent point! Hadnât thought of that before so thanks for the new worry.
âHow is it ever going to get finished if you keep firing the people that are conducting the investigation?â someone asked to applause.
âWell, you asked and I answered,â he said.
just because words rattle thru your lips doesnât mean you put them together in a way that makes rational or coherent senseâŚ
Republicans have gone so far off the deep end and they are totally oblivious of it. They all seem to actually believe the total BS they are spewing when even a modicum of research reveals the nature of their lies. It is absolutely insane.
Look on the bright side Rep. MacArthur⌠18 more months, and you wonât have to face this kind of scrutiny ever againâŚ
âMacArthur told angry constituents Wednesday that the pricing protections for individuals with pre-existing conditions would only be waived in states that had opted out if individuals experienced a 63-day gap in insurance coverage. Critics of the amendment point out that spurts of unemployment or economic hardship often result in those gaps.â
And right there is the entire problem: Gaps.
Nobody should ever be uninsured in America.
Whether itâs a newborn with a heart condition, a grandparent with cancer, or anyone in between.
An insurance system with ZERO GAPS is the only sane endpoint for this whole exercise.
Everything else is willful insanity punctuated by Republican deceit to serve billionaire tax cuts.
Precisely! And it boils down to Republicans in power having a demonstratively low opinion of their fellow Americans. Hatch or Mr. Ayn Rand or even a âmoderateâ MacArthur prove it every time they touch the subject.
Concise yet comprehensive (because they deliver by front end loader.)
This guy is the anti-Jimmy Kimmel.
Kimmel has a son with a serious medical condition that thanks to resources available to him, affected a positive outcome. He extrapolates that experience to the general populace and wants everyone to have those resources.
This guy has a child with a different medical condition, albeit serious, but hasnât learned anything from that. Absolutely heartless.
Itâs a safe district, but if the closeness of insanely red district Special Elections in 2017 is any indicator, itâs winnable. There will just be too many races for the RNC, etc. to allocate resources to. An example from Tuesday, where the Republican spent massive amounts of money in a district where he should have won handily just by having an R behind his name:
"Wow. On Tuesday night, voters in two counties on the eastern outskirts of Oklahoma City cast ballots in a special election to fill a vacancy for Oklahomaâs 28th State House District, a seat Republicans should have held without so much as an eyeblink: Donald Trump carried it by a monster 73-23 margin in November, even better than Mitt Romneyâs 69-31 win four years earlier.
So what happened? Republican Zack Taylor, the owner of an oil and gas company, eked out a 50-48 victory over attorney Steve Barnes, his Democratic opponent, a difference of only 56 votes. That is, simply put, a stunning collapse: Trump won by 50, yet Taylor squeaked through by just 2âa 48-point fall. By contrast, former Republican state Rep. Tom Newell, whose resignation created this vacancy, easily won re-election last year 67-33."