Polls Must Show GOP Will Keep House / Gain In Senate If They Destroy Health Care.

[TheMastersNemesis]

I appears the GOP is confident that huge tax cuts for the rich, 24 million or more voters losing health care and dismantling Social Security, privatizing Medicare, trashing the federal government and ending Medicaid will NOT hurt them going forward.

After all they have Fox news, hate radio, vote fraud, voter suppression, a friendly MSM and billions from the Kochs to back them up. So far they seem to be right.

[BannonsLiver]

1. ...

[yeoman6987]

2. We have to keep the repugs from getting 60 seats at all cost

If they get that, game over and we are a dead country. No I'm not kidding.

[Demsrule86]

3. I don't buy that.

There are no reliable polls this early...they are determined to do this...but I still say this dies in the Senate...and mark my words if this goes through...they lose the house and the senate and the presidency in 20...sadly thousands will die. So lets hope we can stop it in th the Senate.

[BannonsLiver]

4. They're already worried about the House

that's come out in recent weeks. The Senate will be tougher but never say never. I'm not sure if the OP actually follows politics at all.

[anneboleyn]

5. Exactly! Too early for polls. But if it dies in the senate it's bad for the GOP and if it passes in

the senate it is even worse for the GOP. This will be a mess of truly epic proportions, and any polls this early are meaningless. In both cases they look like unprepared, out-of-touch amateurs, trying to ram through a bill they haven't seriously considered, which clearly favors massive tax cuts for the rich. They are ignoring calls from their own party members to slow it down and work on the bill more carefully.

People are picking up on the desperate urgency of Ryan et al, and they are also picking up on the Orwellian language of "access" to healthcare vs actual coverage -- even the most rabid pro-Trumpers are realizing that those things aren't the same. So much for El Trumpos big promises that his great healthcare plan would cover everybody. Another giant Trump LIE.

[Demsrule86]

7. Yes, you are correct.

This is why Ryan is desperate to pass this awful bill that and he is an evil troll who wants to murder the poor and the old.

[LeftInTX]

6. Link to polls?

[Wounded Bear]

8. Here you go...

[mythology]

9. Or they realize that by the very nature of having 2 parties, roughly equal in size

that power will swing back and forth no matter what they do and are trying to rely on the stickiness of existing law to limit the ability of Democrats to revert right back. For an example on the stickiness of existing law, look at the public reaction to the Republicans' "health care plan" and how Republicans are finding it harder to repeal than they thought.

It doesn't matter how much Republicans screw up. Eventually the party will return to power because there are only two options.