Discussion: Schumer: If The GOP Repeals Obamacare With No Replacement, They Own It

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Schumer: If The GOP Repeals Obamacare With No Replacement, They Own It Schumer: If The GOP Repeals Obamacare With No Replacement, They Own It Back to article
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I’m guessing that the Republicans will work twice as hard finding a way to blame the coming catastrophe on the Democrats than they will finding a way to avoid the catastrophe in the first place.

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Barring total economic and/or geopolitical catastrophe, odds are pretty good that the GOP comes out of the next election with a filibuster-proof Senate majority. I wonder if they’re factoring this into their thinking? “We’ll have 60 in two years, so might as well repeal and delay…” Of course, they’re probably lowballing the chaos this causes in the healthcare industries, short-term, and the refracted pain on patients, even if they do some don’t-call-it-risk-corridors payoff to the insurers to keep them from heading for the exits…

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Can the democrats learn a few things from the republicans? l mean, we are 100% in the post trump world where EVERY THING IS MARKETING. Open the playbook, find a term that describes what the repubs are doing and USE THE TERM SO DAMN MUCH AND SO DAMN OFTEN that the media begins to pick up on it. Perhaps 'RECKLACE" or DANGEROUS or SOMETHING so that afterwards when it all goes to shit that word will be left hanging in the air and the masses will remember which side did it and which side predicted what would happen? Enough of the “make my day” swagger shit. We are back on our heels and need to come out swinging just as hard and the right did when they had people screaming in the streets that Obamacare was awful. There needs to be a cohesive strategy to make the repeal even more horrible so they own it. Just being a milktoast and saying “oooh, do it and you’ll be sorry” without any teeth is the kind of bullshit that leads us into losing positions again and again. IT’S ALL MARKETING FROM HERE ON IN.

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This. 100%. They don’t for a SECOND give a crap about any downfall. Apparently downfalls lead to bigger wins politically for them.

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Or did. They really do own it now. All of it. There will be no “But the dastardly Democratic Senate minority MADE us fuck up.” Not that they won’t try.

Still, the Senate map for Dems in 2018 is so ugly it could well give McConnell 60+ votes, unless the degree to which the Repubs have looted the country is really, really obvious by then… I mean, throwing 30 million people out of the healthcare system is a pretty good start.