A grotesque failure of leadership: Republicans celebrate

[spanone]

...— but we’ll all pay for the way they jammed the Trumpcare atrocity through the House.

After they had voted Wednesday to screw tens of millions of Americans out of the health care and financial protections granted them by the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, House Republicans marched over to the White House for a Rose Garden press conference. There they verbally fellated each other for the bravery they had just shown. “Leadership” was the watchword of the day.

“Thanks to the leadership of President Donald Trump, welcome to the beginning of the end of Obamacare,” Vice President Mike Pence intoned. “Thank you, Mr. President, for your leadership,” said giddy-looking House Speaker Paul Ryan. “Mr. President, Mr. Vice President, I am proud … again to say thank you for your leadership,” drawled the gnomish chair of the Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Kevin Brady. Trump himself, while not using the word, nonetheless praised Ryan for the efforts he had undertaken to drag enough votes out of his caucus.

It was a surreal celebration, considering how far this bill still has to go before it gets to the president’s desk for his signature. It was even more surreal for the blatant lies coming out of the mouths of the various Republicans about what this bill will do, at least if the final version remotely resembles this one. No one in the Rose Garden on Thursday afternoon wants to admit it, but the financial and human costs are simply staggering.

As many as 24 million fewer people with health insurance. An $880 billion cut to Medicaid, which provides healthcare coverage to roughly one out of every five Americans. (And would cover more if not for the 19 states that have turned down Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion.) The defunding of Planned Parenthood. Cuts to treatment for addiction, for nursing home costs, for special education students. The return of insurance companies denying coverage for pre-existing conditions. The list of those pre-existing conditions. And on and on and on.

http://www.salon.com/2017/05/05/a-grotesque-failure-of-leadership-republicans-celebrate-but-well-all-pay-for-the-way-they-jammed-the-trumpcare-atrocity-through-the-house/

[pangaia]

1. They all look like---zombies. They are not human.

Imagine them without their clothes. I don't think they have human bodies.Aliens from hell that have appropriated earth heads.


Run away as fast as you can.

[tanyev]

2. It's like a party from the Hunger Games.

[dalton99a]

6. Apt analogy

[democratisphere]

3. redumbliCON representatives and "leaders" are disgustingly deplorable.

[tblue37]

4. K&R. nt

[Guilded Lilly]

5. If you were adding search tags to this pic ...

White, male, older, smug would be the first entries.
Not sure "soulless self-aggrandizing bastards" would be allowed but it would be all encompassing.

[forgotmylogin]

7. These are the people who decided Americans do not deserve healthcare.