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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBeen faking it for years
"But the broader Republican quagmire the partys failure so far to make significant progress toward any of its policy promises isnt just about Mr. Trumps inadequacies. The whole party, it turns out, has been faking it for years. Its leaders rhetoric was empty; they have no idea how to turn their slogans into actual legislation, because theyve never bothered to understand how anything important works.
Take the two lead items in the congressional G.O.P.s agenda: undoing the Affordable Care Act and reforming corporate taxes. In each case Republicans seem utterly shocked to find themselves facing reality."
Take the two lead items in the congressional G.O.P.s agenda: undoing the Affordable Care Act and reforming corporate taxes. In each case Republicans seem utterly shocked to find themselves facing reality."
Conclusion?
But whatever the eventual outcome, what were witnessing is what happens when a party that gave up hard thinking in favor of empty sloganeering ends up in charge of actual policy. And its not a pretty sight.
So the American Medical Association, plus a host of other Medical/Insurance Industry, have stated that the new Republican plan is simply NOT OK.
Interesting to see if Republicans keep whistling past the graveyard as if nothing is wrong ...
Krugman's article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/opinion/a-party-not-ready-to-govern.html
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Been faking it for years (Original Post)
PsychoBabble
Mar 2017
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raging moderate
(4,308 posts)1. I still think GOP are doing this on purpose.
They have held the national purse strings for most of the past 30 years or more. Congress allocates the money. Their clueless voters keep sending the same jerks back to Washington because these candidates "talk their language" and pander to their fears and prejudices. Then, when polled, these voters say they hate Congress, but they always mean the "Liberal" legislators who, Republicons assure them, are fiendishly refusing to carry out the draconian policies on those other brown and black people who are hogging what should be going to the "heart" land.
Zorro
(15,748 posts)2. The GOP has been unfit to govern for decades
brush
(53,827 posts)3. They don't know how to govern, only how to obstruct and take campaign donations...
from the wealthy for blocking measures that help the 99% of us.
pansypoo53219
(20,987 posts)4. the party of faulty ideas.