I paraphrased his moment for my son;
“I may die on this hill, but you’re going to damn well know the cut of my blade before I do.”
So now I guess we can start bracing ourselves for our wonderful President’s spiteful reaction, most obviously either stopping payments of ACA or playing coy about doing so to scare payors away from the exchange. I almost think last night’s vote passing might have been good, a sharp, short shock to the system that would have shown it for what it was, but then the immediate term cost would have likely been high. Guess we’ll have to continue with vigilance and screaming bloody murder whatever Trump tries to do.
While I don’t think we can keep waiting for the other shoe to drop forever, I do think that this further weakens Trump, and makes it ever less likely that his stupider policies get enacted. Once they’ve broken ranks once, I think it gets easier and easier to do it again, at the very least until McConnell is replaced, and possibly beyond that.
That’s my takeaway, as well.
Click for full thread. Decent diatribe on what a travesty this whole “debate” has been.
Hahahahahaha
“Congratulations, the healthy people are paying for the sick people!”
It’s weird how insurance works.
“Dems celebrate failure?” Is that standard for Fox News chirons?
Bahahahahahahahahahahahaha OMG OMG hahahaha
Fox and Friends can eat a bag of dicks. They didn’t waste a precious second before blaming this all on Liberals who want to ruin our glorious nation. Fuck 'em in the ear, etc…
Awww c’mon Slainte where’s that admirable cooperative, compromising spirit now, man?
:-P
vyshka
1942
That whole thread was pretty good
So much this. It still amazes me how duplicitous people in the public eye can be, and I’ve been on this earth for many decades.
Dear Republicans -
Insurance is what’s called a “shared risk.” Individuals are pooled together so that should one person suffer a tragedy, the group provides a safety net so that their life doesn’t collapse. This maintains more productive contributors to society and therefore benefits the whole.
Should only the sick pay for themselves, this would deplete the workforce and also reduce the available capital to spend on goods. Investments opportunities would dry up and outbreaks of disease would threaten everyone regardless of position or wealth.
Sincerely,
Someone who actually lives in the real world
As Owen Ellickson said, “Tattoo this on the inside of my eyeballs.”
The schadenfreude is strong.
I do not disagree with the junior senator from Utah here.
KevinC
1946
This may be the first sensible thing he’s said in office.
Imagine standing in that room when Ryan started intoning The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I don’t think I could’ve held back from groaning.
dwinn
1948
Fox News: “Democrats celebrating, singing ‘Carefree Highway’ while Americans suffer.”
I mean, I get that it’s all posturing and backtracking. Having a hard time seeing how someone can demonize a bill they just voted for and be taken seriously though.
Alas, his remarks were taken out of context and left incomplete.
The full statement was “The process on this bill has been terrible from the moment Obama forced us to work to unmake his evil in the beginning, and the Senate as an institution failed to kill the American people.”
I’m always careful to qualify my desire for cooperative bi-partisan legislation that benefits everyone by pointing out that most of the current crop of Congressional slimeballs would need to be replaced first, and not just Republican ones.
That comment was directed at Fox News (and Conservative Media in general). There is no spirit of cooperation there. They are all lying, disgusting shitbirds who have sold their souls to gain 15 minutes of adoration and fame in the eye of the Conservative Media storm. They are the real Fake News Media, as is evidenced by how often they level that accusation against everyone else. I have more respect for lowly paparazzi then I do for Conservative Media. More than any politician or political group, I blame Conservative Media for the mess America is in right now.
