Discussion: GOP Rep. Says Obamacare Repeal Bill 'Is Definitely In Serious Trouble'

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Ya think?

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Yes, it is in serious trouble, so, then, this means that it’s about time for the “Democrats in disarray” trope to be revisited.

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Let’s be clear about something. The fact that the Republican welfare program is not as bad as Obamacare does not mean that it’s good. It is not good,

Someone has to ask him/Trump in what way is it better than ObamaCare (which has serious problems). What problems does this bill solve and how?

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What a shame. Really.

In other news, because we can focus on more than one thing at a time:

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A wounded animal can be dangerous.

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And about that 2018 election, here’s something to keep in mind about Trump, IF he’s still around:

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"Let’s be clear about something. The fact that the Republican welfare program is not as bad as Obamacare does not mean that it’s good. "

I’d like to point out that “far, far worse; even worse than anyone imagined” also falls under the category of “not as bad as Obamacare.”

“As bad as” implies equality. They’re not equal entities. Not by a long shot. The new bill is a disaster; the old one was merely less than ideal.

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T***p won’t know because he’s a stone-cold imbecile. Paul Ryan is spiking the ball in the end zone about how it will… wait for it… lower the budget deficit.

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Shocking. An old white man from Alabama doesn’t want the poors and minorities to have access to health care.

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What problems does this bill solve and how?

Why, that’s easy! Rich people pay too much in taxes! And poor people receive too many benefits from the government!

They kill two birds with one stone! (We haven’t started counting the human beings they kill…)

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What effect will all this deficit hawkishness have on Trump’s plan to bait unions with $1T infrastructure bill?

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I think I heard a chorus of “Let them Eat Cake” when I read his comments about all the welfare programs he would like to get rid of, and a chorus of “Let them Die” in his criticism of both TRyancare and Obamare.

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So says the guy who depends 100% on stupid to keep his job

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Welp … Everybody better ’ mount up ’ …It’s the great GOP ride –

Half a league half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred:
‘Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns’ he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

‘Forward, the Light Brigade!’
Was there a man dismay’d ?
Not tho’ the soldier knew
Some one had blunder’d:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do & die,
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley’d & thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.

Flash’d all their sabres bare,
Flash’d as they turn’d in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army while
All the world wonder’d:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right thro’ the line they broke;
Cossack & Russian
Reel’d from the sabre-stroke,
Shatter’d & sunder’d.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volley’d and thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
While horse & hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro’ the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.

When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wonder’d.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred! -

See more at: http://www.nationalcenter.org/ChargeoftheLightBrigade.html#sthash.d2DKXJOf.dpuf

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IMO, any major infrastructure bill is just DOA. From what I had heard previously,Wall Street wanted to know what was happening with health care reform first (nothing, so far) THEN onto tax reform (a given) THEN onto infrastructure.

Now, after tax reform explodes the deficit (which it will), I can’t see how a large infrastructure bill goes down. Maybe smaller, state selected ones. Like more gravel roads…

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Someone posted yesterday Bruce Bartlett’s suggestion that Dems should turn the tables and string Republicans along with a willingness to negotiate on healthcare for as long as possible then balk. That’s what Republicans did and it worked.

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It’s not a health care bill.

It’s a revenue redistribution bill.

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Ryan’s had a hard-on for this kick-the-poors & gut Medicare/Medicaid for years… and his plan is to implement it via reconciliation. Once that’s done, they’ll never “work on” the rest of the non-reconciliation items because: fuck 'em – “takers” aren’t constituents or real people anyway.

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