Mad_Machine76
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I thought that our country is broke. I mean, Republicans are constantly harping on cutting spending (on social programs), preventing new social programs from being created, reducing the national debt/deficit!!! Yet, wealthy SOBs like him need taxpayers to subsidize their housing now, too? Geez! Such hypocrisy and shamelessness.
A Question (re: 1990's Clinton Health Care Reform)
Why is it seeming so easy for Republicans to potentially push through Trumpcare, but the Clintons couldn't get a health care reform package through Congress back in 1993-1994 when we had the WH and both chambers of Congress? It's been awhile, so please refresh me: Was there too much intra-party opposition that Clinton (and supportive Democrats) couldn't overcome? Was the filibuster a problem in the Senate? Too much organized opposition to it in the country? I don't even think that there was ever even a vote taken, was there? President Clinton entirely failed with his and Hillary's effort, President Obama and Democrats in Congress got ACA by the skin of their teeth and that was with a near super- majority. How are Republicans under Trump (nearly) waltzing their awful "deform" package through?
But
health care is something more important than buying something frivolous. Is he so out of touch that he CANNOT make that distinction (rhetorical)?
Why oh why
Did she think that Trump-of all people- had a solution to the Opioid crisis??? Building a Wall isn't going to keep all of the drugs out of the country/off the streets. I'm sure that she's devastated by the loss of her daughter but I would have trusted Hillary way more to help solve the problem than Trump. If Republicans succeed in passing their atrocious "health care" plan, things will be worse.
What is the point (mostly rhetorical) of this AHCA exercise?
They spent 7 years railing against ACA and the best they could come up with was a mishmash of half-baked ideas and, basically, a "re-wiring" of the ACA that plunges our healthcare system pretty much back into the same abyss that ACA was helping people get out of and makes our system stingier and meaner to poor and working-class individuals and is actually going to going to create real victims out of this horrific government policy proposal (as opposed to the phony "Obamacare victims" touted by Trump/GOP). They don't have the slightest humanity just to accept the ACA as it has been for the last 7 years and be glad that more people are being responsible for their health and paying into our "free market" health care system and being better taken care of?
But we knew this already
There is simply.no.comparison with how ACA was created. Since several Republican amendments were adopted in the final package, it's mystifying how the Republicans can lie with a straight face that they weren't included as part of the process and didn't have a voice in the process. How many Democrats are likely to end up in AHCA? It shouldn't be that hard to guess. Granted, Democrats (rightly) don't want to be part of the process of repealing ACA but still. Plus, ACA was attacked vociferously by burgeoning Republican Tea Party and Republicans in general up to and since its passage, so it's not like they didn't know what was in the bill, though pretty much everything they said was a distortion or a lie and, 7 years hence, their most dire predictions have never come to pass and what they intend to do is take 7 years of progress and more Americans gaining health coverage and completely reverse it- and then some.
My general sense
is that people don't get the connection between their lack of voting and the quality of their lives (or lack thereof). Some of the people seem to treat politics as one of a number of "hobbies" that they may or may not be interested in and may or may not try to learn about it and/or participate in it regularly at all. Or if people do vote, they only focus on the Presidential elections (because they dominate media attention every 4 years) and ignore downballot races. As a hopeless political junkie, I don't get it. But it behooves us to find ways to engage as many people as possible in the political process and help them make the connection between their participation and how it affects their lives and those around them.
+1000
Sick of it too! Republicans back each other up all the time no matter what craziness is spilling forth from their mouths. Nobody is telling McConnell- with all his awfulness- that he's too old and to take a hike, probably because most GOPers know that he gets the job done at the end of the day (unfortunately). We need to start recognizing, protecting, maximizing, and enhancing our assets instead of tearing our own people down. We go to battle with who and what we have right now. Just bumping people off left and right just because makes no sense- and it certainly won't help us win in the end.
You do know
Republicans will demonize the next leader and the next one and the next one...........Every new leader will be mercilessly attacked and demonized by Republicans so that's a bad argument for dumping Pelosi or anybody else. I thought that Republicans had been planning to move on to using Elizabeth Warren as their next "Boogey-woman" but I guess that they are still fixated on Pelosi.
Do Republicans and their voters give up when they lose?
Hell no! And neither should Democrats. Ossoff made a strong showing in heavily Republican district. He and the other Democrats in the special elections throughout the country all made races that should have been Republican blowouts much closer than expected and made Republicans sweat enough to have to pour fistfuls of money into them (draining them of resources to use elsewhere). If we can do that in solid Republican districts, just think what we could do in more competitive districts in 2018?
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Name: Mara Alis ButlerGender: Female
Hometown: Indianapolis, Indiana
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Current location: Indianapolis, Indiana
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