You got it. Hey, helluva nickname for the Great Uniter, you were credited for it publicly the other day. I’m using Not Too Bright Orange at the moment, but when the indictments start to flow it’ll be The Apricot APParatchik. As Perelman said, de Gustibus ain’t what dey used to be.
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Those crafty Republicans believe in WINNING, and they know in their black puss filled souls that this is a winning issue (with the vermin that pay their real salaries)!
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Yes and they have a brainwashed base that will crawl over ground glass to cast a Republican ballot because they love to smack down colored people. It’s just like what LBJ said 50 years ago!
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Those who pass for “moderate” Republicans these days simply will not vote for this bill. Nobody wants to defend kicking a couple dozen million people off of health care unless they’ve already bought the whole “starve the poor” ideology.
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The answer is self-evident…
They have kitty-cats in their souls? Surely not… there is no warm and fuzzy there!
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“We haven’t really seen the kind of nuanced negotiation on the nuts and bolts of the policy that you need in order to come to some sort of consensus and we haven’t seen the kinds of political organization that is often needed to really line up the votes,”
The GOP can’t do this, that’s why you haven’t seen it.
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It is so predictable isn’t it?
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And yet I understand the Dems are having difficulty finding candidates to run against the GOP.
2018 will be fine, unless we have no candidates to unseat these idiots.
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Blah, blah, blah. THEY NEED THE MONEY! They need the saving from gutting Medicare to pay for their tax cuts. The Freedom Caucus isn’t signing off on deficit exploding tax cuts like their predecessors did for previous GOP presidents. Apparently, this is also true even for short term cuts that expire ala GWB. And it appears the Freedom Caucus isn’t buying the tax cuts = more revenue voodoo non-sense also loved by their predecessors.
Their only hope (and even this is optimistic) of revenue neutral tax cuts they can make permanent requires them to find hundreds of billions in tax savings and the only possibility of finding these savings comes from Medicare. Despite years of drinking their own Kool-Aid on ‘government waste’ they simply can’t find the savings they need.
And none of this covers their $53B boost to defense spending and a $1T infrastructure spending bill.
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One might even say, “obvious”.
Not sure about that…
Good news from Emilys List :
The article points out that many are looking at local level — which has been pretty much ignored by the Dems. In many cases (including where I vote) most of the slots are Goopers running unopposed.
This is a tremendous groundswell. Just 'cause we haven’t decided who the front-runners may be for 2020, doesn’t mean nothing is happening.
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And with his sister close to the President, Erik Prince is probably awaiting word that even the military should be privatized and that he should run it.
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This is what happens when you abandon the 50 state strategy. The party needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.
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Some Business guys I’m watching right now have the opinion that the 1 T infrastructrure is a bogus figure for Public-Private partnership giveaways. Basically the 1T may be at most the total including private funds, which in their dreams(you know what kind) are teased out by privatization “incentives” that would just give companies eminent-domain land, toll rights, instead of government money. My view is that even if Trump survives the private sector are acting so unrealistically greedy the whole thing may again turn out to be Ryan’s fault- a complete cipher. The Reps may have a zero for Infrastructure expenditure. GOP to rustbelt workers: Jobs? So long, see ya, hate ta be ya.
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And after the election.
“President-elect Donald Trump is putting the finishing touches on an Obamacare replacement plan that aims to provide ‘insurance for everybody.’ Also, he will demand that drug companies negotiate directly with Medicare and Medicaid and lower their prices, saying they will no longer be politically protected.'” - January 17, 2017
“Health care started after 30 day(s), so I’ve been working on health care for 60 days.” - AP interview, April 21, 2017
So in January he was putting the finishing touches on a plan he didn’t start working on until February 20. Add time travel to DT’s list of accomplishments in the first 100 days.
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The GOPers said repeal…then it was repeal and replace. Yet they forget that government health care for everyone was a republican idea to start with. Had the ACA been passed by Reagan, Bush 1 pr Bush 2 they’d be fine with it. But it was a bill brought forward and championed by a man who was “President while black” and that rankled. So, the aim is to destroy that which is called Obamacare no matter if it is good, bad or indifferent.
All they have to do is remove the fica salary cap and then expand Medicare to everyone. You get a twofer. Social Security would be funded as well.
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They’ve claimed for 7 years they have a better, cheaper plan. Where is it?
They’ve. Had. Seven. Years.
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It was 7 years of hot air and no substance.
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And the ballon has popped!
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