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Just a couple things from the clownhouse known as the GOP (Original Post) Triana Jan 2016 OP
The second one is so spot on underpants Jan 2016 #1
I've always wondered about this Cyrano Jan 2016 #2
In my opinion - they have lost control of what they are doing underpants Jan 2016 #4
Yep, that's their agenda! B Calm Jan 2016 #3

Cyrano

(15,027 posts)
2. I've always wondered about this
Sun Jan 17, 2016, 02:40 PM
Jan 2016

Can they really get away with "killing" healthcare?

Dozens of times, they've voted against Obamacare because they knew that it would never pass, or get vetoed by Obama if it did pass.

The point is that they knew their votes were meaningless and that Obamacare would continue.

So if one of their crazies gets to be president, do you think they'll kill Obamacare? I believe that if they did, their less that intelligent voters would finally "get it" and never again vote for a Republican.

Having said that, I think the GOP is far too smart to "kill" Obamacare. They'll probably just rename it something like "RepublicanCare" and stop there. After all, I don't think they want to lose power.

And there would be no surer way to lost power than to deprive millions of Americans from what they've come to expect from their government.

Then again, you never know. Today's Republican Party may be suicidal. After all, look at their "front runners." Trump and Cruz. Seems a bit to me that their voters are a bit mentally unstable.

underpants

(182,603 posts)
4. In my opinion - they have lost control of what they are doing
Sun Jan 17, 2016, 04:10 PM
Jan 2016

Lost control in the sense that they are told what to do by Fox Mews and their media. The votes to get rid of Oabama care were useless but they have to show the "dashboard believers" (my saying) that they did something. They have to show the believers because the believers simply want what they are told to want. It's like Top 40 radio - it's crap but they drill it into everyone's heads and they HAVE TO HEAR IT.

Trump simply prepped the battlefield by doing a weekly cal in on Fox n Friends and now he is just being ambelligerent asshole-that's what the believers HAVE TO HEAR.

Don't apply logic physics or history to them. Some of their aReps seem to actually believe this nonsense. The backlash from "the establishment" is proof that they never meant any of this it was just a means to get elected.

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