Bring a recorder and take notes.
New Rule: The people in this administration only want to follow the law that Republicans have passed with overwhelming margins as part of their party platform. All other laws are moot.
Civil and Voting Rights were passed with GOP help. They wouldn’t survive a primary election these days.
That’s right, take the war to them!
I just heard Price’s shredder fire up.
While they are right to demand answers, a sternly order letter won’t move the freaks in Trump’s HHS.
My hope is that democrats will make the repblicans own every action they take to undermine or kill Obamacare. The public has been very clear on how they feel about the issue.
Would have been nice if y’all in Congress could have fixed what needed fixing in the ACA instead of all the GOP bullshit that went on. And it would be nice if there was a law that would keep trump’s grubby short fingered Vulgarian hands off healthcare in general.
I so want trump to resign.
CYA, the Democrats are right to put down markers, when people start to lose their health insurance, the Republicans will attempt to blame it on Obamacare imploding.
The Democrats can point to this and many other actions and legitimately say “we fought this every step of the way, there was a concerted and deliberate effort to undermine the ACA”
The failed health care bill will be poison for the Republicans next year.
Yep. The letter is nice, but every one of the Dem signatories needs to be in front of the cameras screaming that after failing to take Americans’ healthcare away, Trump is now actively and fraudulently sabotaging Americans’ healthcare. Stop with the niceties – just as people clearly understood the simple message that Trump and the GOP were trying to strip healthcare from millions of Americans thanks to the Dems actually getting off their asses and collectively delivering a consistent, repeated message in the media, the public will quickly get that the Trump fraudsters are trying to do it again.
I wouldn’t hold my breath.
Wait a minute - you expect someone from the Trump administration to read a 6 page letter?
I just wanted to repeat this! They can call press conferences and the media will show up. They need to start using THEIR bully pulpit or the “Obamacare Implosion” and “death watch” will continue with no blame landing on their doorsteps.
The first thing I thought when I saw the headline: “The Dems are going to send a letter!” That’s leadership for you.
The Democrats would, the problem is that the media hardly covers them. There is no liberal media, it’s a buttoned down corporate media that skews Republican.
It’s only when the problems become so apparent that the media will deem to pay attention. Even then, we get the both sides nonsense.
There was a study recently that explored the media bias during the 2016 election, that showed the strong Republican media bias. Trump’s scandals were downplayed while Hillary’s minor issues were blown out of proportion.
It’s only when Republicans criticize Trump, that the media pay attention.
Or when, as with the defeat of the repeal legislation, the public pressure is too great (and mediagenic) to ignore. Democrats have been unified and strong against GOP efforts to destroy health care, but without all the terrifically effective activism putting the heat on Republicans – and giving support to the Dems and the few GOPers inclined to do the right thing – all the Dem press events in the world wouldn’t have registered in the media.
Now, I do hope the Dems are planning to make the sabotage case long and loud in their respective districts as well as DC, and I imagine they are. But as you and that depressing study note, the media deck is truly stacked against us. The answer isn’t to bash the Dems on their weak messaging (though they definitely can use some help on that score); it’s for all of us to do what we can to amplify that message. We all need to be talking about the GOP’s sabotage to everyone we can, demanding that local and national media cover that sabotage, and getting every constituent of a Republican we know to tell their reps/senators that we see what the administration’s doing, and that they’d better do something to thwart it.
Don’t expect a traitor to do anything good for our country.
There is more going on than just this letter…
As posted in the Hive–the courts will be humming…
And I agree with this…
And… Hi Cvilledem… You’re right as rain on this…
Oh and Hello there @darrtown It’s good to see ya’ still chiming. in… I hope you and Mrs. Darr are doing well
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Mrs darr and I are doing very well, thank you much for your consideration (bows). Whilst I tend to the home front (house, dog, 3 cats, various front yard critters), she is back east in Maine doing a bike race. This after another race in New York state and visiting family in Massachusetts. We’ve finally ditched our wire connected land line and are enduring the learning curve associated with fancy and utterly non-intuitive smart phones. Even the so called instruction booklet doesn’t tell ya how to receive or make a damned phone call but by God they wanna tell ya how to sign up for Facebook and that tweeter thingy. But I got texting down. The damned thing stays in my pocket when I drive.
If trump messes with the ACA that will backfire on the GOP in general.
And if trump does come to Phoenix Tuesday he will find a less then receptive crowd. And it will get way worse if he goes thru with an Arpiao pardon. I expect he will pardon Arpiao and that will cause a firestorm here in AZ which makes me damned glad I am 120 miles south of all that. Not that I liked Sheriff Joe,… I did not. Joe fully deserves his criminal conviction and any time in the pokey he gets.