“It’s tricky because some states expanded and some didn’t…Kentucky expanded. Florida didn’t and how do you treat both of those fairly?” McConnell asked.
Gee, I dunno. Expansion for everyone?
Sorry. I forgot that government shouldn’t be actively trying to help people.
laying groundwork for complete filibuster elimination?
more likely due to the toxic environment cultured in the Senate during Obama’s terms, mitch has certainly left his shit stain on this country
Newsmax: providing your elderly relatives with bogus email fowards since whenever that fake-muslim vampire was elected president. I heard there was a SCANDAL that he doesn’t want me to know about!
That won’t help if you can’t get a bill through the House.
2-4-6-8-!
Who do we Hate!
Mitch! Mitch! Mitch!
I will piss on his grave
You know what would unite us behind the Republicans? North Korea hammering Seoul with artillery. If only there was some way to provoke this…
Party first. Party always first.
Up for re-election or retirement in 2020. Kentucky, make it retirement for Mitch.
Blatantly obvious that Mitch does not even want to be put into a position to directly address a Republican healthcare plan because there is none. All there is is strategy and tactics and power, and having to actually formulate a working plan would be a disaster for the GOP, so he ain’t going to let the rabid dogs in his party be unleashed. He is an evil parasite but, unfortunately, a smart politician. I hope he gets untreatable dick cancer and dies in excruciating pain because he is a souless lump of shit.
"the House has been wrestling with trying to figure out how to craft a replacement that can get enough Republican votes to pass,”
Therein lies your problem, Mitch. If you and your counterpart in the House had any real interest in being "able to figure out a way forward” you would abandon the undemocratic “Republican votes only” approach to governance, jettison the Freedom Caucus, and then set about doing your jobs. But as the last GOP president said, it’s hard work.
McConnell: “We’ll have a big challenge screwing over the American people in the Senate.”
“It’s tricky because some states expanded and some didn’t…Kentucky expanded. Florida didn’t and how do you treat both of those fairly?” McConnell asked.
Hey, Mitch - here’s an idea. You don’t concentrate on treating the Republican politicians in those states fairly. Rather, you treat the people who have and need affordable actual health care fairly. I know it’s an idea that’s foreign to you and the other scum, but give it a try sometime.
And so begins laying the foundation for abolishing the filibuster entirely.
2020 In the Year of Our Lord. In Kentucky.
A lot of talk among reporters and columnists these days about Trump moderating, becoming more conventional and in effect accepting the status quo. It seems to me a lot of this comes from the fact that Trump’s claims of being a fighter, disrupter, changer of the status quo and general doer of things is largely bluster. The likely reason he is moving to less extreme positions more consistent with positions of current Republican leadership (which is nonetheless pretty hard right) is because doing all the stupid things he proposed is hard, and requires work to get done. Trump displays boundless energy when it comes to bloviating and spewing insults, but digging in and doing actual hard work to get things done? Not so much. In the end if pushed, or made to feel stupid by the press, he’ll follow the path of least resistance, and then pretend that was his idea all along. So look for extremist and incoherent policies where it’s easy (e.g., executive orders, changes within executive agencies), and for Trump to cave where things get hard (e.g., getting legislation through) and then lie about his original positions.
No candidate yet and who knows what 2020’s landscape will look like but I believe it is the best chance we’ve ever had in KY to rid ourselves of this monster.
Trump: This is ALL Democrat’s fault. They will never vote for repeal. They are the hostage takers. Obama needs to lead and withdraw ObamaCare volutarily.
Knowing KY, they will elect someone who WILL get rid of ObamaCare as opposed to the loser Mitch.
Seems like they can’t figure out how to insure fewer people for less money. I don’t recall any of them but Trump suggesting that the goal was to get more people insured. They couldn’t care less.
“Nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated.”
Sidebar Comment:
Has Mitch the Turtle ever interviewed on wing nut alt-reality Newsmax?
Normalizing (Overton Window shift) the wingnuts much?
Next: Louie Gohmert interview on StormFront?
Scheesh!