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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: HAPPY2BME on March 26, 2017, 06:52:37 AM
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Republicans had a narrow majority, and they could only pass something through the Senate by reconciliation, which imposes limitations. But the thing is, Republicans don't hide behind the vagaries of Senate procedure during campaign season. Trump did not win the Republican nomination telling rallies of thousands of people, "We're going to repeal and replace Obamacare — as long as it satisfies the Byrd rule in the judgment of the Senate parliamentarian!"
What's so utterly disgraceful, is not just that Republicans failed so miserably, but that they barely tried, raising questions about whether they ever actually wanted to repeal Obamacare in the first place.
The contrast between Obama and Democrats on healthcare and what just happened is stunning. House Republicans slapped together a bill in a few weeks (months if we're being generous) behind closed doors with barely any debate. They moved the bill through committees at blazing speed, conducted closed-door negotiations that resulted in relatively minor tweaks to the bill, and within 17 days, Trump decided that he'd had enough, and was ready to walk away if members didn't accept the bill as is.
Here's the bottom line: Republicans didn't want to repeal Obamacare that badly. Obamacare was a useful tool for them. For years, they could use it to score short-term messaging victories. People are steamed about high premiums? We'll message on that today. People are angry about losing insurance coverage? We'll put out a devastating YouTube video about that. Seniors are angry about the Medicare cuts? Let's tweet about it. High deductibles are unpopular? We'll issue an email fact sheet. Or maybe a gif. At no point were they willing to do the hard work of hashing out their intraparty policy differences and developing a coherent health agenda or of challenging the central liberal case for universal coverage. Sure, if the U.S. Supreme Court did the job for them, they were okay with Obamacare going away. But when push came to shove, they weren't willing to put in the elbow grease.
Failing to get the votes on one particular bill is one thing. But failing and then walking away on seven years of promises is a pathetic abdication of duty. The Republican Party is a party without a purpose.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/caving-on-healthcare-bill-is-the-biggest-broken-promise-in-political-history/article/2618413
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Feeling posty this morning?
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Horseshit. All those 'OMG this is their Waterloo!' stories and posts being written and shared lately. All being promoted and shared gleefully by the never-Trumpers and the same a-holes who were sure Bush would be prosecuted when he left office, and that the Republican Party was going to be totally destroyed forever when Hillary stomped them in November.
The last time an important political party was actually destroyed was the Whigs in the 1850s, and that was over slavery and related states sovereignty issues that people were really willing to die and kill over. There is nothing with stakes that large apparent for either party, despite all the keyboard commando bologna from both sides.
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If the plan wasn't right then they did the right thing NOT passing it.
Obamacare still belongs to the democrats...when it falls and shatters it is all on them...
My personal opinion is the government needs to get out of the way out of the insurance protection business
and let people buy their insurance when and how they want.
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Angry over U.S. healthcare fail, Trump voters spare him blame (https://conservativecave.com/home/index.php?topic=113439.0)
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Angry over U.S. healthcare fail, Trump voters spare him blame (https://conservativecave.com/home/index.php?topic=113439.0)
I see you are yet another one of the long line of idiots who can't see a bargaining position being created.
This is going to work out great -- we can only hope the impatient will just get 'da vapors and just pass.