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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAndy Slavitt (formerly ran Medicare/ACA for Obama) on why tonight's 43-57 vote is *NOT* good news...
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flamingdem
(39,312 posts)Thanks for posting this.
When he's disturbed we know it's bad, bad news.
My intuition tells me that as a party they know they need a win.
Their donors will otherwise abandon them. They want their tax cuts.
So anyone weak enough to vote yes today will vote yes with incentives.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)about a month or so ago
It was fairly thoroughly discussed
flamingdem
(39,312 posts)and force it through with some changes that give cover.
Or, they'll create confusion. No one will really know what it means until it's too late
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)that the republicultists have had any interest for any socially responsible programs EVER is the sickest joke I've heard since the one about a deranged conman seizing the reins of the most powerful nation in history
Oops!
BigmanPigman
(51,582 posts)still_one
(92,116 posts)that everything is going to be alright
I am not sure what people were thinking on November 8, but it most likely will take decades to recover from this.
Everything from Civil Rights, Women's Rights, workers rights, environmental rights, social security, Medicare, healthcare, etc, are going to be fought all over again
Elections have consequences
CousinIT
(9,238 posts)still_one
(92,116 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)...you POS liar.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,107 posts)still_one
(92,116 posts)first version to repeal and replace the ACA. This is the one that mccain said he wouldn't support in its current form. He lied, and voted yes on it. It lost, but there should be no doubt that mccain is a maverick is a myth. All his political life he played the media and the America like a fiddle. His voting record speaks for itself, a hard right winger What you see is the real john mccain unmasked