Will he even be there to vote?
I hope not.
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However, the Senate GOP has begun to rally around legislation by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), which would extend the subsidies on the condition that other provisions of the law â including the individual mandate â are repealed.
Fearing a political blowback, Republicans are scrambling to put together a back-up plan in the case that the Supreme Court rules in favor of the challengers in King v. Burwell, a lawsuit pushed by conservative activists.
Sigh.
Once again, the Republicans have had almost SIX years to come up with a plan to âreplaceâ the ACA/ObamaCare. Remember they were going to do so from âroot to branchâ?
Where is the plan?
Why is it taking so long to come up with a replacement health care law?
When will the âliberalâ media start asking what they have been doing all this time?
We may have our issues with the ACA and lament what could have been. But the fact remains that at least Democrats and Pres. Obama did something , voted on it and many of us are enjoying itâs benefits. What the hell have the Republicans done other than complain and try to kick the can down the road?
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Republican donât want a replacement law. They want health insurance the way it was. Rejection for pre-exisiting conditions and all the rest BECAUSE that gets them large donations from the health insurance industry. THAT is what these craven opportunists respond to. Like I have said many times in various threads republicans are after money to get in office âŚnothing else matters. Certainly not the folks who vote for them. The idiots who do vote are voting directly against their own self interest and they think by voting repub theyâre then part of the rich folk crowd and good things will trickle their way. Reagan said crap about âtrickle downâ economics 35 frigging years ago and the rubes are STILL waiting for the scraps the tables of the rich might provide.
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Trump, one other thing to consider. Repubs are in a box about the ACA replacement. The original ideas of this act were from the conservative Heritage Foundation and Romneycare. So it is republican in essence. To change it goes against their own so-called values. Of course theyâll cast it as democratic trash counting on the fact that the rubes who vote for these repub clowns have a collective memory extending to all of 20 minutes. Certainly their core voters wonât care that the ACA in essence is republican. Theyâll believe whatever derp McConnell, Fox, or some other conservative spoon feeds them.
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Tea Party Purist Holds Position Favored by Tea Party
Putting the headline that way, there isnât much reason to read the article.
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However, the Senate GOP has begun to rally around legislation by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), which would extend the subsidies on the condition that other provisions of the law â including the individual mandate â are repealed. Thirty-one senators have signed on to the proposal
Gonna go out on a limb and say that none of those guys are math or accounting majors.
Party of fiscal responsibility, my ass. The first tenet of fiscal responsibility should be balancing a budget, and being able to pay for the things youâre spending on.
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That works very well as a pun.
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The funny, yet sad thing is, any plan that the GOP could push across that would have even a half a chance at succeeding would have to either:
- Be just as big of a government overreach (according to their standards and logic)
- Be just as anti-business/job-creation (again, according to their standards and logic)
- Or not be paid for, and end up increasing the deficit (which they claim to care about)
The problem is that none of them has either cared enough to think through what a real GOP health care proposal would look like to eventually understand this, or they donât have the functioning brain cells to do the same. I donât know which is worse.
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That might be fine for a household, but it would be insane for the federal government.
And the same folks keep getting elected.
How can this be sustainable?
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If everyone was the same religion, same ethnic group, same language background, same âraceââŚ
The REThuggs would have thought of something else to get the bulk of their voters to maniacally vote against their own interests.
With them and their communications arm (the MSM), they have long ago learned that the thing is Messaging.
Sadly, the distracted and/or perfect-the-enemy-of-the-good people on the the other side are really not on the other side.
They are on the SIDE-lines
I canât tell if this is sarcasm or not. If not, why do you say that? Weâve had balanced budgets before.
Rarely, and only in good financial times or immediately preceding historical panics, like the one in 1837. That hardly makes a balanced budget a principle of good governance, let alone the first tenet of fiscal responsibility. Rather the opposite, actually.
As for the sarcasm, Iâd have thought the same of your post had I assumed you to be serious and well-educated.