They really are so desperate to take from the poor and give to the rich they’ll sacrifice one of their dreams…for now.
So this is a choice between pass this hideous bill to placate their big donor overlords while destroying the underpinnings of healthcare and tax sanity in the process thereby losing swing voters and future elections or…
Vote against this monstrosity and displease their donor overlords thereby turning off the spigot and possibly losing future elections.
Republican’s have only their mendacity and cynical grasp for power to blame for this dilemma. If history is any guide, they’ll probably make the wrong choice.
“If we can repeal part of Obamacare as part of a tax bill, and have a tax bill that is still a good tax bill that can pass, that’s great,” Mulvaney said
The GOP tax bill is not a good tax bill without the individual mandate repeal so you fail your own condition precedent. Unfortunately for the country, the fact that it is not a good tax bill in either scenario will not have any bearing on it being passed by the GOP Congress.
Trump will support any legislation, regardless of content, drafted by Republicans so long as it a) results in a “win” and b) doesn’t harm him financially. If it screws poor and middle-class people or people of color, so much the better. They’re all losers.
There’s another subtext here: that, once again, Trump will throw House & Senate GOP under the bus if it gets him a “win”. If they’re “open” to removing O’care repeal from the tax bill, that means they will.
Paul Ryan just messed his drawers. Mark my words.
“We want a signing ceremony and a bill that helps the Trump family and those like them. And something that Trump can distance himself from if the public wakes up and realizes that it’s bad for the vast majority of them. Anything else is of little concern.”
The GOP congress peeps are fools. They already voted how many times now to gut Obamacare? Do they think the electorate will forget and no one is gonna remind them? Voting for a crap bill with the pretext that the senate will make it better is not a winning excuse.
The Republicans do it because they can. They control the House, Senate and White House.
Who’s going to stop them now - the “electorate”?
We’ll find out next November.
Does Mulvaney not have the look of a cretin that sold his soul for Earthly riches and now has seen Satan lounging against a streetlight looking at his watch?
“If we can repeal part of Obamacare as part of a tax bill, and have a tax bill that is still a good tax bill that can pass, that’s great,” Mulvaney said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Mulvaney said that if the provision “becomes an impediment to getting the best tax bill we can, then we’re okay with taking it out.”
Bottom line, it’s more important that the wealthy get their taxes cut than dismantling something Obama created.
For now, but we’ll come back to that.
Mulvaney is the textbook definition of the word nebbish.
OT Meanwhile, just in time for Thanksgiving in a marina a very short drive from Grift-a-Lotto …
“Coincidence takes a lot of planning.”
— Malcolm Nance
Wow. I guess the Trumps will have a Russian Thanksgiving. Wouldn’t one think he’d avoid this shit?
We’ve just had the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the one that stuck. That was at least in part the product of ginormous income inequality and an utter lack of any kind of social safety net. Do these people really want to go down that dark and dangerous road, shredding everything in this culture that helps people have a decent life? If they do, their own ill-gotten gains will be in grave danger.
Sacrifice our first-born sons to pass the tax bill? No problem! As I see this, with the public greatly disapproving of this tax bill, the GOP is willing to fall on it’s sword of tax cuts to satisfy their donors - at the expense of their own viability in office.
OT but Meet the Press is soooo much more tolerable without Todd.
Only had to hit the mute once or twice (impossible to listen to Mulvaney).
Oh yeah, bob and weave.
Sort of like his hair.
The white house insisted on adding the repeal of the individual mandate late–just a week or so ago-- so they could take it out now and look like they are “compromising”?
My opinion, reducing the overhead on the wealthy is the only true cause for the Republican party at this point. Anything else is simply a tool to create or destroy to distract us from that point. Individuals may have their own purposes, but the body is dedicated to this. Trump as far as I can tell really doesn’t care unless he can claim a “Win” as you say.
But the thing is, the moment the body gets what it wants, Trump is now a useless clown. Long have suspected the moment they pass the pertinent legislation, removing Trump from office becomes a doable thing. He is setting up his own seeds of self-destruction once he gets his “Win”.