They told you the NAMES of the phases…2 and 3.
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A little local color -
Bend is largest city in District 2 and Greg hasn’t done a public town hall actually in Bend for over 4 years. He’s done some smaller events elsewhere in Deschutes County, but he’s avoided town halls in Bend for quite a long time. And for what its worth, normally he doesn’t have to. He regularly wins with 60+% of the vote. The fact that he is coming to town and doing a big public event tells me a lot about how he’s feeling about the rest of the district.
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I like this the best from one of his disgruntled constituents. The man knows Pelosi grew her pair years ago and they’re in working order.
“Why don’t you go back to Washington, [and] in the spirit of bipartisanship, grow a pair, sit down with [House Democratic leader] Nancy Pelosi and say, ‘Let’s fix Obamacare,’ ” said one middle-aged man at Columbia Gorge Community College, where about 500 people gathered.
@yokem55 There’s a reason congress critters avoid town halls. It’s means being held accountable to the people who voted for them and they’d rather just float above the controversy they generate in D.C.
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Per The Oregonian, over 1/3 of Walden’s constituents rely on Medicaid for their health care coverage. This putz wants to do away with that. He deserves what he gets at these town halls.
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While the next nationwide elections are not until 2018, Republicans have grown fearful that these voters are recoiling from what they see as lamentable conditions in Washington: a government entirely in Republican hands that has failed to deliver on fundamental goals like overhauling the health care system.
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Walden is the Representative of a deeply red district. He won his most recent election with 72% of the vote. It would take a lot of giant bats to the side of the collective heads of his constituents to change that.
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Take it from an Oregonian, Walden is no moderate.
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OK–Did not see the quotes (or this response) ahead of my comment…
I never said he was. The media seems to be using the term “moderate” to differentiate people like him from members of the Freedom Caucus. I happen to think the media usage of “moderate” is full of shit. After years of primary challenges from the right, moderate Republicans no longer exist.
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“…a government entirely in Republican hands that has failed to deliver on fundamental goals like overhauling the health care system.”
Yup. They have lusted for this opportunity, and, quelle surprise, are not up to it.
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Never underestimate the ability of a 50 year old to understand when some politician is working hard to screw him personally. We all talk about the 24 million losing health insurance number, but the number that really impacted the AHCA was the number associated with skyrocketing premiums for people over 50.
What Ryan and his band of merry crooks forgot is their base has no problem screwing poor black people, but if you threaten them personally they have no problem jumping right in your face. The AHCA doesn’t just harm poor people of color, it threatens older white middle class working people directly. I don’t care how deeply gerrymandered a district might be, it isn’t gerrymandered deeply enough to protect people like Walden who have been caught trying to steal from their constituents.
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“…but the number that really impacted the AHCA was the number associated with skyrocketing premiums for people over 50.”
Yes. And this hits directly at people who ostensibly are their base of supporters. Seems like a Kamikaze move to me.
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So saith every huckster since the dawn of time.
Seems to work for the Rs
It’s hard for a party which has taken over the country by illegal means and whose governing philosophy is “No” to then be able to implement anything because at bottom they don’t want to govern. They want to just control.
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Easier for corporations but not for people. Leading to the inevitable lie : Corporations are just like people.
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Excellent point! And the desire to control leads to the Authoritarian approach they are taking. The “Party of Limited Government” is really the “Party of Limited Government for the Things We Like.”
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This chump just signed away your internet privacy, while taking $150K from telecoms. He’s a shitstain on Oregon.
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I actually think that internet service provider bill is going to be a really important issue the next cycle. Voting for that bill is going to cost incumbents a lot of votes.
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I turn to political cartoonists at times like these.
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