“Our goal is to repair the damage caused by Obamacare where we find damage,” Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Chairman Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican, said at the start of a hearing he held Wednesday on the individual insurance market.
Senator Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, echoed Alexander during the hearing: “Regardless of who was elected president, we were going to have to do major repairs on the Affordable Care Act.”
While Trump ran on the promise he would repeal Obamacare, he appears to have softened his view a bit after the election. Lately, he has pivoted to pledging insurance for everyone.
I am shocked. Shocked.
New prediction, worth what you paid for it: The dems will be big winners in 2018 and/or 2020 on the strength of their highly successful “damn the republicans and their Trumpcare” campaign theme. The voters, bless their tiny pointy heads, will forget they ever disliked Obamacare of blessed memory.
How can you tell when a politician is lying? his lips are moving.
And Chelsea will be 40 years old in 2020.
The horror . . .
The Rove Republicans are nothing more than the other end of the same steaming turd as the Democrats. And there are limits to what President Trump can do without help from Congress. The one good thing is that Reince Priebus still has political aspirations. And if he wishes to keep those, he will need to get some cooperation from his good buddies in the House and the Senate.
Nothing more the Rove Republicans would like to do than sabotage President Trump. But they will be wary of burning themselves TOO badly in the process…
Sorry, y’all.
I have been trying to vote Lamar! and the equally (at least) vile Bob Porker out of office for some time now, but there aren’t enough of us keeping track of what they do. The dumbasses hear the campaign commercials about how they are bulwarks against the libruls and keep putting the bastards back in. Perhaps someday Tennessee will have actual conservative representation, but I’m about to turn 52, and have almost despaired of it happening in my lifetime.
I’ve long felt that the 17th Amendment was one of the worst among the many done to our system of government. Burkina Faso has an official representative to the US.gov, but none of our states do.
I’ve always liked a quote which I’ve seen Codrea attribute to a Quigley chap – something to the effect that ‘if you can get them asking all the wrong questions – the answers don’t really matter’.
If the fundamental premise is never addressed – then perhaps any other questions based on it ‘don’t really matter’.
To that end – and at the forbearance of our host for slipping this turd into the punchbowl – I pose that involuntary (any other kind?) taxation is theft and that arguing about the redistribution ‘doesn’t really matter’.
No – I wouldn’t expect the political or bureaucratic folk will get anywhere near ‘the right question’ – ever.
Within the last few days WRSA linked over to an article on ‘weaponised’ empathy as a political tactic. If one must argue against the ACA (or other aspects of redistribution) and is lacking talking points that might be a good place to start.
Here it is: How to Defeat Weaponized Empathy.