The GOP Plans To So Demolish The Safety Net & Health Care It Cannot Be Revived.

[TheMastersNemesis]

The GOP has two years to wreck everything and two years to cement voting to where they can't lose. They are in complete denial about the mood of the electorate. In fact they may go farther just to punish their critics. You know we have not begun to see how mean, murderous and vengeful the GOP is. They are just as crazy as Trump.

[jodymarie aimee]

1. Wisconsin is the road map

I am terrified he will do to the USA what Walker has done to us.

[Deb]

2. I don't understand why people own stock in health insurance

companies. Seems to me that for profit health ins companies deal in blood money and this GOP change is all about making money.

[RKP5637]

3. That smug assholeish look on Mitch McConnell at his town hall is too much. He could give shit about

his constituents.

[RKP5637]

4. The intensity of those fed up with this shit will grow and grow. n/t

[Aimee in OKC]

5. Ryan's dastardly time-bomb to kill the ACA permanently ...

He's crafted a well-hidden rules change using the Congressional Budget Office. It manipulates/ degrades the CBO's responsibility to report on the fiscal effects of 'a bill or joint resolution reported by a committee (other than the Committee on Appropriations), or amendment thereto or conference report', specifically the PPACA.

From 'Angry Bear' = "PPACA Repeal and How to Make Reconciliation Work for You."

... There is reason to why Congressman {Ryan} wants to block the CBO from reporting on this. It deals with making it more difficult 10 years down the road to change the repeal.

. . . Bush’s tax cuts were passed using Reconciliation and the CBO did a cost analysis showing it would create a deficit. Using Reconciliation to pass a bill, the legislation passed and creating a deficit must expire in 10 years. Bush’s tax cuts did create a deficit and a big one much of which was reversed by Obama.

For sure, Congressman Paul Ryan knows the repeal of the PPACA will create a deficit and Republicans know the repeal will create a large deficit. To make sure no one else knows, Mr. Ryan has blocked the CBO from analyzing it before repeal. Also unbeknownst to many, if the CBO does not do its typical independent analysis of the costs (if any) created by the PPACA repeal and how much it increases the deficit, there is no requirement for the legislation to expire after 10 years. Republicans would have repealed the PPACA as they have wanted to do since 2010, and would have blocked it from ever coming back after 10 years. "

http://angrybearblog.com/2017/01/38918.html

[Doreen]

6. It's called a dictatorship.

[Efilroft Sul]

7. My bet is that certain members of the GOP won't make it two more years.

If they keep playing these reindeer games with everyone's lives, their own lives will become exciting and brief. The anger in the electorate is real and it's getting more real every day. When the public gets its first martyr caused by the havoc the GOP is creating, all hell is going to break loose upon the Republicans. This summer should be interesting.