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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA Republican "Empty" victory
The Wing nuts in congress think they won something. They are making believe they got to fuck most Americans who have health care coverage. They do some ancient, crazy dance around their camp fire, and they call it call it a "victory."
They've won nothing. They know the Senate will bury this piece of shit in the sewer in which it belongs.
Many GOP congresspeople voted for this to placate their voters back home. Many didn't believe in it, and the knew it would never pass the Senate. (Let them rot in hell.) In some circles, this is called pragmatism or political necessity. In all honesty, it's called cowardliness.
Some GOP congresspeople really believed in the health-care horror they voted for. These people have no conscience They are called pricks. (Let them rot in an even hotter hell.)
Either way, this "death of Obamacare" vote is going nowhere. It will die in the Senate and all Republicans know it. It's hypocrisy raised to an art form.
The Republican Party is a criminal enterprise. They are a nightmare that we must purge from our midst.
Opposition to the Democratic Party is needed. No country can survive with a single party system.
The thugs of the Republican Party are in no way a sane, decent opposition.
The only kind of victory they can have and it's also the only kind of "thinking" they can do. All their ideas are vacuous.
Cyrano
(15,031 posts)beyond comprehension.
As far as I'm concerned, the same applies to almost all Republican voters. The remainder can hide behind terms like ignorance, or just plain stupid.
Whatever the reason, they consistently vote to fuck themselves in ways that they just can't grasp. And in the process, they're fucking all the rest of us too.
lapfog_1
(29,199 posts)be Lawrence O'Donnell on this.
He of the "Trump will never be the Republican Candidate". "Trump will never be the President".
"Repeal of the ACA is dead now and won't come back" "Republicans in the House will never pass this third try at repeal of Obamacare".
The repukes are a sick bunch.
They have control of the Federal Government... which is WHY there is no serious investigation into what *I* believe are acts of treason by the crooks now in the White House.
Do not count on the Senate passing something very close to what the House just passed. They have to so they can pass the tax CUT later this year without a single Democratic vote.
Cyrano
(15,031 posts)louis-t
(23,288 posts)And we paid for it.