AhhhhhhhhâŚnow every moment will be around the Senate while the House is sneaking in tax reform. 
The Senate, as was the case with the House, will have the ulterior motive of stripping away actual âhealth careâ and replacing it with a pile of words with a slick name. A pig with lipstick and a pearl necklace on it.
Cable news will bandy about âpossibilitiesâ in unending panels of experts that will conclude nothing but will show their political stripes for all to see. Rump is right about the âfake newsâ thingy but doesnât admit that they held his hand all the way to the White House. He is right that it is âsadâ.
Cut to the chase ⌠there are only two choices ⌠Medicare for all or Soylent Green.
Please proceed, Senators!
Who, in their right mind, wouldnât be heartened that those four cheerful senators will make deplorable care more palatable for everyone?
In a polite way Senate Republicans have basically informed House members that should they do anything about this bill, it wonât look ANYTHING like the Houseâs fantasy bill.
I imagine it will be more of a civics lesson than ACA ârepealâ.
TRUMPCARE IS THE MOST MALICIOUSLY CRUEL, DESTRUCTIVE AND WHOLLY EVIL PIECE OF TORTUROUS LEGISLATION THAT AMERICAN POLITICIANS HAVE EVER CREATED!
The Republican Partyâs Trumpcare is literally legislation that purposefully facilitates and inherently mandates, the sickness, suffering and death of millions of working class Americans.
Trumpcare isnât healthcare; itâs not caring at all about the lives of millions of American men, women and children.
WHY is sacrificing the health and lives of the American families that cannot afford the extortionist cost of health insurance and medical care a price the Republican Party is EAGER and WILLING TO PAY to provide UNFAIR WINDFALL TAX CUTS to billionaires and millionaires who DONâT NEED THEM!
WHAT DO THE WORKING CLASS AMERICANS WHO VOTED REPUBLICAN HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE MERCENARY SCUMBAGS THEY VOTED FOR NOW?
beej alert.
Have the Dems put forward any of ideas for replacing ACA with a better system? Havenât heard any, but perhaps just media doesnât care?
Obviously the Houseâs next move.
All the buzzwords in the Frank Luntz lexicon wonât get the CBO to polish whatever turd the Senate drops. This, along with the Medicaid cuts that the hospitals wonât stand for, is the Republicansâ major problem.
Anyone trusting the Trump GOP Senate to do the right thing isnât paying attention.
Wouldnât the House bill provision allowing some states to opt out of protecting peopleâs access to healthcare for pre-existing conditions violate peopleâs federally guaranteed rights to equal protection? Could there be a legal challenge to this provision? I started thinking about this when that dimwit Congressman made the gaffe that people with pre-existing conditions could just move to another state with more favorable healthcare if they wanted to. I am not a lawyer, so please correct me if I am wrong, but this provision in which peopleâs rights are guaranteed in one state and not another seems unconstitutional.
They voted for Trump because of abortion. That is all most of them care about. Theyâll overlook immorality, corruption, treason, their own self-interest and risk nuclear war â everything â as long as they think he will help them impose godâs will on women. One of their biggest beefs with the ACA was with guarantees of womenâs healthcare. They canât take that women use birth control or would seek termination of pregnancy for whatever reason.
Have the Dems put forward any of ideas for replacing ACA with a better system? Havenât heard any, but perhaps just media doesnât care?
There are two answers, both of which any competent âobserverâ who is paying attention should know.
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Yes. Single-payer.
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Yes. Tweaking the ACA to fix the few small issues that have arisen since it was first passed. Nothing more is required.
Just a questionâŚare the Republicans EVER able to take a pix that isnât a bunch of WHITE MEN? Yesterday, the House picture celebrating their âwinâ and today with the TurtleâŚEVER?
So this:
Boy, did DT just shoot himself in the foot.
I think the House leadership learned a couple important lessons here. If they move fast, with an ongoing rhythm of concern/response, they can outrun the mediaâs ability to analyze the actual proposals. The media coverage then devolves to blow-by-blow, and the headline narrative looks like a series of improving compromises even if the initial proposals were terrible and the changes make it worse. Their messages (e.g. Ryan/McCarthy/Upton/Trump) sets the context for the vote.
If they continue to be rewarded for this, they can pass pretty much any legislation they want. Political gravity will only apply over the multi-year election cycle, to the extent that the media can follow cause/effect.
The question is what McConnell wants to do. His paramount objective is probably retaining majority in 2018 to confirm more SC justices.
Tim Kaine was interviewed on NPR this morning. It was an appalling performance. Kaine said he was anxious to start negotiating with the Republicans and was fully prepared to compromise with them. If ever there was a wrong message at the wrong time, this was it. Totally tone deaf. Even the Republican NPR reporter, David Green, appeared shocked.
The Democrats message should be that before they even go to the table with the Republicans, the Senate must kill the House bill by bringing it up for a floor vote and overwhelmingly voting it down, including Mitch McConnellâs vote. Only after the Senate Republicans demonstrate their good faith by doing that should the Democrats even be willing to participate.
In is both perplexing and alarming that at a time when the commitment and enthusiasm of the Democratic base is the highest in decades that Democratic officeholders are so totally clueless.
Donât forget the hatred of the poors. Just stroll on over to any Fox News comment board for the views of the hardcore Trump supporters.
Axiom: White Christians = Hardworking Americans
Theorem: As a hardworking American, I am a future rich person.
Corollary: If I am not rich now, it is because I am being dragged down by the undeserving poor.