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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Fri May 5, 2017, 09:14 AM May 2017

History Will Remember These 217 House Republicans for Their Inhumanity

History Will Remember These 217 House Republicans for Their Inhumanity
What Paul Ryan and his minions just voted for is immoral.
By John NicholsTwitter Yesterday 3:47 pm

North Carolina Congressman Ted Budd cast an indefensible vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with legislation that is so awful that Budd’s fellow Republicans were caught scheming to exempt themselves and their staffs from the measure’s draconian provisions.

But Budd got one thing right. “I’ll take around 2,000 votes this Congress. Most of them will be forgotten,” the Republican congressman said as the vote approached. “This is not one of those votes.”

Good. The vote by 217 House Republicans to gut the Affordable Care Act (while 20 of their colleagues and 193 Democrats opposed the move) must be remembered as the shameful abandonment of health and humanity that it is. This should become the permanent stain on every member of the House who supported it—the issue that does not to go away.

https://www.thenation.com/article/history-will-remember-these-217-house-republicans-for-their-inhumanity/
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Bengus81

(6,907 posts)
1. Hell,one of them voting for repeal from Kansas is a Pediatrician.....
Fri May 5, 2017, 09:18 AM
May 2017

Look him up,Roger Marshall elected last Nov. WHY the HELL would a doctor who specializes in births and babies want to DUMP something like the ACA??

These guys are beyond belief.............

RKP5637

(67,031 posts)
3. Probably has sociopathic tendencies. Might be a doctor for money, but doesn't give a fuck
Fri May 5, 2017, 09:22 AM
May 2017

about children.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
5. Just anther libertarian sociopath I bet
Fri May 5, 2017, 09:27 AM
May 2017

The non-rich are just objects to be abused for these republican greed monsters.

itcfish

(1,828 posts)
6. It reminded me of
Fri May 5, 2017, 09:29 AM
May 2017

that photo that Trump like to show during his campaign claiming Muslims were celebrating 9/11, only this time the Republicans were truly celebrating killing Americans.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
7. Great analogy
Fri May 5, 2017, 09:46 AM
May 2017

Except our republican terrorists claim to be "pro-life" as they plot the deaths of millions of Americans.

They are ISIS with hypocrisy.

ladjf

(17,320 posts)
8. Let's make it clear. If this bill becomes that law, many thousands of Americans will suffer painful
Fri May 5, 2017, 09:55 AM
May 2017

and unnecessary deaths due to the lack of medical treatment. Their deaths will be directly attributable to the 217 Republican votes yesterday. Those politicians cast their votes kn owning full well that the were part of a manslaughter conspiracy, all for the financial benefit of thousands of rich people who already obscenely wealthy.

What has become of America?

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
9. Its becoming a slaughter house for the poor and the sick
Fri May 5, 2017, 10:01 AM
May 2017

IOW a libertarian capitalist dream state.

One nation under the dollar, with liberty and justice for the wealthy, hell and damnation for everybody else!

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