The Kochs and the Mercers and etc. don’t care. They want their wealth care tax cut and if the babies and elderly and the sick have to suffer and die, well, that’s not their problem. More money for those who have plenty of it, god dammit.
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I love that! “Health care over wealth care!”
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give it a rest.
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Because: Kochs
Because: $
Not brain surgery
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Not the great and powerful OZ
Give him time …
lots and lots and lots of time…
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Likely a self esteem issue.
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[W]e have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
– George Orwell, 1939
However, by Orwell’s criteria, this duty is not incumbent on you.
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It takes a lot of consistent, determined, planned out work to hold these things together and get majorities in Congress.
This is exactly the kind of work for which Trump has no experience, patience, interest, skills, aptitude…
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All this talk about the Republican psyche might help you feel superior but my theory is it is always about the Benjamins.Where else are the Republicans going to find a couple of hundred billion dollars to help their donors with tax breaks? That is why it has to come before tax reform.
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“Republicans just can’t quit Obamacare repeal” because it is the only thing that united the Party for 6 years.
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It’s not a question of “obvious.” It’s having a minimum awareness of history. “Government is the problem” said idiotic Reagan in 1981. Over 35 years ago!
With respect to the congresspeople, you are 100% correct. They cater to the psyche of the donors because they feel that Congressman or higher if ambitious is the best job they can get. Probably correct, too since they are so untalented.
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Snark off
I’m not apologizing for our healthcare adversaries, but here’s their rationale:
I don’t know about the Kochs, but Betsey DeVos is definitely a God’s Plan type of person–she’d agree if she were here. I believe Rebekah Mercer is also.
I volunteered selling books on Amazon for a multi-faith religious charity for four years and I met a number of these Major Barbara types(though not nearly as rich as Betsey and Rebekah). As Betsey sees it, and in her (very limited) experience, in the Good Old Days “the churches took care of them”. In her small home town this may have been possible. She didn’t see the rural poor dad who would swipe a chicken, often with tacit permission, from a local farmer to help feed his family. She didn’t see the urban poor who, even with churches and soup kitchens, were still malnourished during the Depression. Most important, she can’t or won’t face the fact that most of the part-of-the-community churches have been replaced by televangelists who still collect money but plunk the money down for near-Trump-level mansions, yachts, Mar-a-lago memberships, or worse. She knows these guys and they’re very nice to her. As her “reasoning” goes, when the government “interferes” by feeding people or providing family-planning assistance, it keeps the recipients from joining her ideal 1940s churches. It’s interference with The Way Things Should Be. Her idea is to force these people who need 'correction" into the churches.
Add an idealized small-town-doctor who just wants to help people and feed his family–it’s always for the family–and insurance companies that are this close to being struggling small businesses suffering under the weight of oppressive regulation and you have the extension of this to healthcare.
Care? They’ve been in a position their whole lives to not even consider the question. No danger of them ever doing it.
Now, back to the snark.
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Their Tupperware party isn’t over, yet.
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And yet in the same messaging cycle there are some Republicans and POTUS claiming “the military has been hollowed out.” So I give you tax cuts, you pay less, and who will pay more to beef up the military?
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Very nice line-but you know what happens when you feed them.
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I think the Goopers are finally realizing that they are inextricably tied to the SS Trumptanic, and will sink right along with Hair Furor. They see the 2018 mid-terms staring them in the face, and know the shit is gonna hit the fan. ACA repeal is their proverbial Hail Mary, but Mary isn’t on their team.
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“Who will pay more to beef up the military?”
Well, Mattis says the budget, which is DOA anyway, won’t include the military, petty cash I guess. Trump isn’t saying so, but it seems he wants this and lots of other things on (shudder)Deficit financing!
Hey GOPers, is everybody happy?
This is gonna be great.
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Yep, Republicans are hooked on red ink the same way a junky is hooked on heroin. And they sure love to whine about “Tax and Spend” Democrats yet not one Democrat comes out and attacks “Borrow and Spend” Republicans!
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Thanks, and yes, I know. But this one has a well-established life cycle – sort of like passing through larva - pupa - adult stages. It has now entered the “What’s your point? – Why state the obvious?” phase, which I associate with the pupa stage. It will soon enter the “adult” phase where it will indulge itself in flaming, personal attacks that will lead to its inevitable banning.
I just thought I’d chivvy it along a bit.
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