I call bullshit:
Cotton said repeal and replacement must go hand in hand, even if some aspects of the Republican plan wouldn’t go into effect until years down the line.
If that’s not kicking the can down the road, I don’t know what is.
Shorter Idiot: When time comes to vote, I will repeal without any replacement. I don’t want any replacement, I want people to suffer, especially the poor, who I am sure are not white.
Worldclassassholesayswhat?
Looks like the GOP senate won’t go along with the house.
Cotton is a reactionary scum, after all.
President Obama is playing the RWNJs as masterfully as only he knows how, and they don’t know it.
“Health care is a very complex issue,” the Arkansas Republican said. “We haven’t coalesced around a solution in six years in part because it is so complicated. "
And it is much easier to criticize and sloganeer than to actually do anything about health insurance. They did squat for GWB’s 8 years, after scuttling Clinton’s attempt to do/ propose something. So, really, for the past 24 years, the Modern Dixie GOP has failed to come up with a solution or plan or any policy for health insurance. Good luck doing it now. And letting everyone see it and criticize your great fucking plan after all this time making up slogans like Death Panels, Hillarycare…Obamacare…yuk, yuk yuk wink wink.
Yep … and …
Traitor and Commie Mole Cotton speaks up.
Cotton is just another highbrow, intellectual Republican trying to nuance everything.
Not so. In response to HillaryCare, the Heritage Foundation deep thinkers got together and came up with a comprehensive plan, which didn’t make much of a splash at the national level at the time, but later got some kudos in Massachusetts as RomneyCare, and still later got a great deal of criticism at the national level as ObamaCare.
Which is why I am surprised to see Cotton show even a scintilla of self-awareness on the issue of repeal. I would have expected him to be among the “Obamacare delenda est” stalwarts manning the barricades against any talk of taking a rational approach.
I realize that the Heritage Foundation is one of the main “think tanks” for the modern GOP. However, I do not think it fair that the GOP writ large get credit for a plan or policy conceived by them. It may be a reflection of my age, but there was a time when Senators and Congresspeople, yeah, even Republicans, were into policy and drafted legislation. So, even though Romney adopted it in Massachusetts, I dont really think the GOP writ large, and all its ideologue congresspeople both houses have done squat on health policy in 24 years. Other than snarky slogans.
Translation: I’m prepping for my run in 2020 after we’ve tossed Trump out and Pence proves what an idiot he is. I’ll vote for repeal w/o replace, but say I was against it when I’m in Iowa and blame it all on Ryan.
ETA: And what the hell is with GOPers and their terrible baby-beards. Buy a damn razor!
Of course Cotton represents a state where Obamacare is working better than almost anywhere else, with the biggest reduction in uninsured in the country and premiums dropping for 2017. It would be politically suicidal for him to just jump off the same bridge as everyone else.
“It must go hand in hand.”
Okay, what was your replacement plan when you voted to repeal it the last several years"
He’s an up and comer, eventualy he hopes, presidential candidate. Best to lay a little marker down, just in case.
Maybe…but then look at what happened in Kentucky.
The wörd: permastubble.
There’s stubble and there’s the thing that grows on certain adolescents’ faces when they’re shooting for “mature” but end up with “revolting”. Christ, the man already looks like a damn bobblehead.