Can some enterprising tv reporter PLEASE put up,
"Republicans in disarray" on a chyron.
That is all.
B-b-but you’ve been planning this for six (6) years. You’ve had 2,191 days to work on this. I’m starting to think y’all are like the proverbial dog that finally caught the bus.
Replace THIS, dick.
Maybe they could couponize ACA
This guy sounds dangerously sane. Not only did he suggest waiting for a replacement, but he also talked about fixing the problems in the ACA instead of repeal.
How long until the GOP leadership makes him change his tune?
As long as it takes to get him to the Republican woodshed.
They have no intention of replacing it. Telling them they can’t repeal without replacing it is like telling them they just can’t repeal it…and as far as I’m concerned is just part of the kabuki theater of PRETENDING they intend to replace it. THEY. DON’T. Their entire social darwinism utopia depends upon the poors dying the fuck off like they’re supposed to.
Just wondering…Is “pyite” a reference to the song Punch You In The Eye?
You’ve had six years to work on a plan, so where the hell is it?
He’s doesn’t give a good goddamn about what the leadership thinks. He’s in a safe red seat on the Outer Banks, (67% in General, 60% in primary) since 1995, he’s 75 and he’s already had his committee chair pulled out from under him in 2012. His daddy was a Mayor (Farmville NC, no kidding) and a 13 term congresscritter. Walter Jones is all outta fukks,
“You cannot repeal and not replace,” Jones told MSNBC’s Peter Alexander. “You have to replace.”
Asked to elaborate on what a replacement would look like, Jones acknowledged that he and his fellow GOP lawmakers have yet to see a proposed bill in writing.
The incredible irony here is that the GOP-endorsed replacement plan that they seek is the Affordable Care Act, the essence of which was proposed by the conservative Heritage Foundation, years ago.
The only acceptable replacement: Medicare For All.
“You cannot repeal and not replace,” Jones told MSNBC’s
Peter Alexander. “You have to replace.”
Most GOP’s don’t even know their own party …
That’s how stupid they are —
This guy sounds dangerously sane.
Let’s face some realities here: 1) Since the Great Depression, Republicans as a whole have virulently opposed government involvement in health care, and for that matter, any social services like Social Security, welfare, etc. Even today, the conservative Republican mindset positively reeks of Victorian, Dickensian social moralism that consigned indigent children to workhouses, indigent, sick and dying adults to the streets and unspeakable miseries; 2) Republicans bitterly opposed President Johnson’s Medicare program and have attempted to gut it ever since it passed; 3) They vilified attempts by Hillary Clinton to effect a comprehensive national health care program while her husband was President and never forgave he for the effort; and 4) Republicans vehemently opposed President Obama’s Affordable Care Act not only because if passed, people might like it, but because Obama was black and had no business being President.
Now, Ordinarily when a bill as complex as the ACA is passed, there is follow-up or trailer legislation to work out the kinks and to address the inevitable unseen consequences. Republican legislators showed that they would have no part of such efforts and only wished to destroy the Act. Remember, the Republican House voted to repeal the ACA over sixty times, wasting millions of dollars.
Now, the Republicans have won control of the Executive and Legislative branches they are hell-bent on repeal. At least a few sensible Republicans like Rep. Jones have come to realize that millions of Americans benefit and like some provisions of the ACA (horrors!) and that it cannot just be repealed without some replacement or corrective legislation. If it is just repealed, millions of people will be worse off than they were before the ACA was adopted.
News Flash to these few sensible Republicans: YOUR PARTY, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY DOES NOT CARE! If the ACA is repealed and not replaced and people die, so be it!
This is what we have come to with this new, regressive government that only a plurality of our citizens voted for. They wanted change, but as some wise sage once said, be careful what you wish for, you might get it.
Agreed. He’s also an honest pol, he and McGovern (MA) have teamed up to form a pretty potent - if still small in numbers - bipartisan anti-war caucus.
And you’re right about his committee - his leadership told him he’d get booted if he in favor of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act. Which he promptly went ahead and voted for anyway.
We may not agree with him 100% of the time, but you have to respect his integrity and dedication on behalf of his constituents and standing up to Wall St.
I’m loving the new governor of North Carolina.
The hope is just to make a mess with a delayed repeal, then stall and hope something happens between now and then to get them out of their jam. It’s like the scouts delay gambit. If they stall until they lose the power to replace it, they can go back to being feisty obstructers again. See Chait’s piece below.
It didn’t take long. I just heard him interviewed again early this evening and he is already changing his tune. Doesn’t bode well for the hope that there are enough sane Republicans to block the repeal of the ACA.
Would you believe their dog ate their homework?