07-28-2017, 11:08 AM
(07-28-2017, 10:36 AM)GMDino Wrote: McConnell is back to asking Democrats what THEIR suggestions are.
Do you think that is sincere or just passing the buck...again.
The party of "no" had proven (again) that they cannot govern...only obstruct. Given power they flail about unable to decide what to do because some want to do as much damage as possible to anything any liberal might like and some want to do less because they understand their constituents are people too.
It's passing the buck. The GOP is doing everything they can to blame Democrats for this debacle. I saw the Senate GOP Twitter account lambasting Democrats for not voting for the single-payer bill that went up. What they don't tell you is that almost all of the Democrats voted "present." What this means in parliamentary terms is that they agree with the premise of the bill but do not agree with the details.
The issue is going to be that the GOP has been pushing so hard for a "repeal and replace [with something more conservative]" that they will have to do that. However, there is no health care reform that will be both more conservative and not result in a loss of coverage for people and/or an increase in costs. From a policy perspective it just can't happen. So they can say all they want that they want to hear suggestions from Democrats, but everything is going to be too "big government" for the liking of the GOP and their voters. The reason for this is because we have dealt with 8 years of the GOP telling everyone that Obamacare might as well be socialism and telling fairy tales of how evil and big government it is when it was cooked up by the Heritage Foundation almost 50 years ago now as a small government solution to controlling healthcare costs and increasing coverage, but because it had Obama's name on it and the Democrats made it happen it was automatically bad.
I may be a little pissed off about how the lying, bullshit rhetoric of the GOP and the shitty neo-liberal policies of the Democrats have caused this shitstorm of ****-wittage that is screwing over the American people.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
