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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPrediction: MSM will ask Dems why they don't "reach across the aisle" on Obamacare repeal.
Because we all know "cooperation" has always been a one-way street in the political bureaus of CNN, the Times and the Post.
JCanete
(5,272 posts)Gorsuch is just posturing and Democrats should pick their battles. Fucking corporations and their media. And we keep thinking we can work with them...
malaise
(269,186 posts)Take repeal off the table
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)And to be a Republican means you don't.
Squinch
(51,021 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Can't force people outside of certain situations.
flamingdem
(39,328 posts)they just want it to die. But in the meantime the media will let them spew endlessly about how they could "save" it
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)you can be sure the weekend barfalongs will do it
the myth of the death spiralling obamacare has been fostered along for years by the willing handmaidens in exactly the same manner they did during the iraq war run up
anybody gainsaying this groupthink never gets a chance to get their point across
not that the dems, once again, have done much to force their POV down their throats. reminds me of how feckless they were (with a few exceptions) in countering the bs about the top secret hillary email exposure, when that should have been very concisely and easily been accomplished during the campaign. they really screwed themselves by not having a solid front of talking points prepared when the KGOP and media joined hands in putting out the constant false narrative of the faulty email handling
Jonny Appleseed
(960 posts)Just like they have a mandate to block Gorsuch.
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)Offer them a superior universal healthcare bill, or a compromise bill which adds the public option to a new version of the ACA. We'd be handing them a way to make good on their repeal and replace promise, and Trump could at least add one positive action to his legacy before he is removed from office
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)it's finest. Red Herrings,Straw Man Reporting,false equivalency,fake narratives. Did anyone here the real truth about this so called Repeal and what it really does to the Country and it's citizens,not. It was a give away to the Insurance Companies and the 400 riches families in the Country. Peep peep and crickets.
stopbush
(24,396 posts)End of argument.