IrishNinja
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priceless
the way they're acting though, yeah this is painfully obvious. all tbr more reason to keep calling your reps to make sure this last effort likewise fails
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NYT: Donors are furious over the Republican's inability to repeal Obamacare
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priceless
the way they're acting though, yeah this is painfully obvious. all tbr more reason to keep calling your reps to make sure this last effort likewise fails
CrocMother
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My guess is they don't really care how it's paid for. These aren't idealists like the Tea Party, they are the 1% trying to keep as much as their money as possible.
If health care reform is a means to an end, so be it.
R_thanatos
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Luck
You can add luck to the list
ScottSullivan
Member
We'll see if this actually results in anything concrete, GOP has been outraising democrats by wide margins for awhile now
If this Healthcare bill fails, and I think it will, congressional republicans will turn to the next hot button issue they can attempt to jam through garbage legislation on. Taxes look like it's going sideways. What else can republicans attempt to jam through? Something blatantly racist?
True, when you already have a pile of stooges ready to bat for you, why even make a swap?
But its also about effectiveness. If their investment has no return, well maybe its time to try something new instead of keep hoping that candy bar drops out of the machine if you keep feeding it bills.
Also, I hate that I am even giving thought to whatever strategy these traitorous scum may or may not be planning.
The grandiose idea of permanent tax reform was based on that.
Most likely theyre just going to pass a huge unfunded tax cut that will sunset in ten years.
Host Samurai
Member
All those millions they lost wont make up for the taxes they were gonna save. Sad.
You would've thought people in charge of running the fucking country would have realized in 2009 that what they were selling was bullshit and they'd have to try a bait and switch. Instead, they tried to deliver an everlasting gobstopper. Everyone's insured! Lower premiums! Better care!
Instead they tried to force a square peg through a 24% approval hole and they got rekt. Well, don't come crying to me when your base you've been feeding "communist death panel" bones for years comes for your asses.
Instead they tried to force a square peg through a 24% approval hole and they got rekt. Well, don't come crying to me when your base you've been feeding "communist death panel" bones for years comes for your asses.
And Hillary's emails
Good luck. Most major corporations that provide the majority of items you consume just to exist make donations to both parties.
Brock Reiher
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They make more to one over the other in most cases. And its the one that they thought would make them more money.
Maybe they'd have better luck if they didn't go about reppealing it in the scummiest way possible with the worst possible bills.
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
Them and Pappa John, I avoid already.
Most aren't specifically demanding the death of the ACA. Come on now.
Messofanego
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Seems Chick-Fil-A is now for Homophobes and Republicans lol
Glass Shark
Banned
The paradox here is that Trump has caused so many more people to be politically aware and active than they ever were. Under any other president, shitty bills like these would just pass and barely anyone in the public would think about it. But now you have late night hosts getting on the air talking to the masses about a healthcare bill, which is kind of crazy if you think about it.
The GOP made their bed with Trump, now they have to lie in it.
The GOP made their bed with Trump, now they have to lie in it.
Always has been.
Don't be so sure. A lot of that 1% is a lot more idealistic than you probably imagine.
This isn't entirely true. The overall idea is, but healthcare has been a major hot topic issue going all the way back to the 90s.
I dunno about that. If Trumpcare passes it would probably be the worst bill to become law in my lifetime (I'm 31). Not matter the mention unprecedented in the manner (no committees, hearings, or even full CBO score). People would be pissed about it no matter who the president was.
The people who work at those corporations, never usually the corporations themselves unless in the form of a trust.
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MeisaMcCaffrey
Umm the healthcare bill isn't just any other bill, people's lives are affected by it. You also have the Democratic party trying hard to make people aware of the consequences of ACA repeal. Also, some credit also goes to the social media as well which makes it easier to inform people. Trump and other Republicans actually campaigned on repealing Obamacare and won. If Romney had won Obamacare would've been repealed because there weren't 24 million people covered back then. It's very difficult to do it now and the Republicans are shitting their pants and they don't know what to do. They are also stuck in a way because if they don't they will get decimated in 2018 and 2020.
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
They overrated anyways. Their breading on fried chicken is shit and if Im eatin grilled chicken I make it at home.
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
Yeah, glad to see someone else gets that. I don't give a fuck about the federally capped donations that get paraded around. The primary reason being there are disclosure requirements for them, so people use that information to aggregate donations, insinuating that they are from the companies themselves. When in reality it's people who work there.
We should be concerned about undisclosed donations to superpacs, and unlimited donations in that order. Those are the ones that matter enough to directly influence policy, as seen here.
Fancyarcher
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Man I haven't been to Papa Johns in years. That's probably for the best.
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