These chicken Repubs are still running scared of Trump’s A-hole Nation—a bunch so low that they still support Dear Leader just out of spite for being such a-holes to foist him on the country.
Here’s a short blog explaining how A-hole Nation must be beaten back:
Enjoy!
Exactly. They already appear eager to do everything within their power to lose control of the House and, some are speculating, the Senate, as well.
They’ll pick up the needed Rethug votes because they are going into Self-preservation Mode.
You have to spend money to make money.
But go ahead. Let Trumpcare continue, and watch your “beautiful” economy come crashing down.
It’s a pretty good bill. It will help regular, non-super-rich Americans. Democrats will vote for it. Republicans control Congress and the presidency. It will not pass and become law.
I’m assuming that this bill is only good for this Congress, so while I agree with you that the insurance companies will succeed in getting the markets stabilized, it might take until after the first of the year. That would be soon enough for GOP to stay clear of the election, and Trump might be gone or on his way out.
I’m still guessing that Trump will be negotiating his exit in December. If that’s so, everything will be on hold.
The way things are now in our current tenth Smash Week of the lomng-running kabuki melodrama “Waiting for Mueller”
The GOP Senate can’t get the job done.
Then stop supporting repeal of the ACA, jackass.
I agree it’s a pretty good bill, but I disagree that while Democrats will vote for it, Republicans won’t. There will never be a vote on the bill in either chamber unless the Republican leadership wants a vote. If they want a vote, they want the bill to pass. So, if there is a vote, enough Republicans will vote for it to make sure it passes. We will have plenty of faux drama before the bill gets enacted, with Republicans and the Trump White House demanding things they know the Democrats will never agree to, but in the end accepting essentially what is on the table now.
The bill will get a lot more than 60 votes in the Senate, not that Trump would ever veto it anyway. And in the House, it will be a replay of every phony crisis served up in the Boehner years; Ryan will put together a coalition of Republicans and Democrats to get the bill passed. The notion expressed in some comments that Trump would veto the bill is also wrong, because Trump will not veto a bill sent to him by a Republican Congress. Rather, Trump will take credif for the bill, as would any president.
This will–should–be a test of how suicidal Republicans are.
More like 60 years old and the legacy of the John Birch Society, which was founded in 1958. Gingrich was just part of the continuation of that legacy, like Reagan and Nixon before him, and Fox, Breitbart, Cheney, Trump, and most of the GOP today.
Include attaching “Trump” in gold letters on the Lincoln Memorial and he will be 100% for the bill.
Let’s not get too confident. Even without voter-suppression efforts by the GOP, the 2010 gerrymander means Democrats need an estimated 7-8% margin over Republican votes to take back the House.
With voter-suppression efforts added in, it seems like 11% is the minimum spread the Democrats may need to win, and maybe even as high 17-18%. I’m talking about national support here rather than vote counts, because - between people who are actually denied the vote and people who don’t even try due to barriers imposed by the GOP - right-wing vote-suppression alone could lead to as much as 12% of otherwise Democratic votes never being cast.
Edited to Add: The numbers in the paragraph directly above are my own educated guesstimates, based on reporting from Ari Berman at Mother Jones - Rigged: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump. For example:
After the election, registered voters in Milwaukee County and Madison’s Dane County were surveyed about why they didn’t cast a ballot. Eleven percent cited the voter ID law and said they didn’t have an acceptable ID.
And we haven’t even accounted yet for the unpredictable impact Russian meddling in the 2018 election will have.
That said, I still think we can win back the House, and maybe the Senate, but it’s going to be difficult, and it will probably be close.
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Ryan will put together a coalition of Republicans and Democrats to get the bill passed.
[/quote]Hope you’re right and my cynicism is proved wrong.
It’s all about the “leadership”.
Let’s note that this bill, with a known 60+ votes and a very simple effect, has to go through the whole committee process. While repealing the whole damn ACA can be passed with 50 votes and no hearing at all.
gop can’t govern.
Thank you Alice for keeping your eye on the ball with all the distractions flying around D.C. and the media right now.
That’s one of the things I really like about Ms. Ollstein, Ms. Sneed and Ms, Kirkland’s reporting here…they have an actual beat, and they stay on it, instead of getting yanked off to cover whatever insanity Donald tosses out there to distract from everything else.
“You know, both parties can get together and do real healthcare. That’s the best thing. Obamacare was rammed down everyone’s throat – 100 percent Democrat. And I think having bipartisan would be a big, big improvement.” Donald “The F’ing Moron” Trump, March 24, 2017.
“I’m concerned we’re just perpetuating a bad process,” Hatch told TPM. “They want to do it for another two years. I’d rather face the problem now.”
^ dude who voted for sequestration
Fuck off.
I really dislike analysis of this sort. It implies that national, or even state, voter turn out is what wins House races. It isn’t.
What matters is turning out more voters than the other sides in specific geographic Congressional Districts. If we do that in more of them than the GOP does, we win back the House.
Turning out 7% more voters doesn’t mean a thing if they all turn out in safe, heavily blue districts.
IMO, its a lazy mechanism that many Dems use to blame electoral misfortunes on gerrymandering entirely. Gerrymandering IS a problem, but it isn’t the only reason we don’t hold the House. I live in a CD that isn’t gerrymandered, it actually makes good sense looking at it on the map. Its also about 70% republican. Boosting voter turn out another 7-8 or even 11% probably isn’t going to flip it blue. (and we had close to 80% Democratic turnout in 2016…still lost our county). Likewise boosting voter turn out 7-8% in Miami Dade isn’t going to flip my district, either.
If we achieve the formula I laid out above, we even flip gerrymandered districts. Its the only way to win back the House…we have to fight for it in every single Congressional District, in every single county, in every single precinct.