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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThey had 8 years - 8 fucking years - to come up with a replacement for
the ACA. They did not do it and still cannot do it. They are manifestly unfit to govern.
MFM008
(19,820 posts)Couldn't shoot straight.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)cilla4progress
(24,777 posts)Anyone surprised?
It's not so hard to recognize a serious adult, when one is encountered.
C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)Unfit. Inept. Blinded by toxic ideology.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)unblock
(52,331 posts)when the aca passed in the first place, they complained that it would create a big new federal program with a big new constituency and be hard to repeal later.
they were actually right about something for a change, but they made it sound like having a big constituency of well-served americans is a bad thing....
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)The repubes' russian buddies might like it, but for Americans it sucks.
Tanuki
(14,922 posts)Johonny
(20,890 posts)It's basically a partial repeal which creates more problems and solves none of the ACA's existing problems. It's exactly how not to do government.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)It never works.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)dembotoz
(16,844 posts)healthcare? way over their heads
Cosmocat
(14,574 posts)It was THEIR FIN HEALTH CARE REFORM.
That this country indulged their lunacy in whipping their zombies into a frenzy over how horrible it was is example #1,000 of flat out stupid this country is.
I was just about to post something similar.
This was their plan for the most part. Obama and company made it better so that it would cover more people, but by in large this was the GOP plan conceptually. Obamacare is a market based solution, what the Reps hated about it was the Medicaid expansion.
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)and after telling us that they knew better than the democrats for a quarter of a century..they still have no ideas.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)This is on all the idiots who thought giving the shooting monkey a machine gun was a great idea in the first place.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)And to steal every last dime we have and give it to the filthy rich.
Everything else they claim to stand for is a baldfaced lie for the suckers in the fox 'news' bubble.
mercuryblues
(14,543 posts)Republicans have voted 8 times to repeal the ACA in entirety. 54 times they voted to defund or delaying certain aspects of it. Knowing full well that Obama would veto it.
Now that they have all 3 houses of government, a repeal only bill would be signed by the acting president, they can't get the 50 votes needed.
When their vote was for show everyone was all in. Now that it actually means something the can't get the votes.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts).... some of them KNOW that we need major health care reform. The "repeal and replace" mantra was an act for the rubes for them. The mushy middle of the GrOPers have no idea what they want. They are driven by emotion, not policy. Telling people they can have better at lower cost while eliminating protections and fracturing markets is insane. It is a lie and always was.
progressoid
(49,999 posts)moondust
(20,006 posts)and more about racists asserting their superiority by trashing the work of the minority President and his party.
panader0
(25,816 posts)Initech
(100,104 posts)The reason they're doing it is out of pure spite for liberal ideals because they don't have anything that works. The democrats are Stark Industries,, the republicans are Hammer Tech.
tblue37
(65,490 posts)It was always Kabuki theater, performed for their rabid base. They never expected to have their bluff called.
atreides1
(16,093 posts)And they aren't interested in governing...they want to rule over us, in much the same way that Putin rules over Russia!!!
The Republicans want to be oligarchs and want to do away with all the trappings of a Democratic Republic, to include the US Constitution!!!
Warpy
(111,359 posts)by repealing the best part of his legacy. These are very primitive people, acting on primitive impulses. They lack the capacity to plan, to test, to evaluate, and to implement---in other words, to govern.
The problem is that so many people in this country have been propagandized into being simpletons and spiteful fuckheads just like them. They won't notice there is no plan and no alternative until all the hospitals in their area shut down.
And they will. And they won't get them back.
procon
(15,805 posts)KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)those responses constitute the seeds of good OPs of their own and I strongly encourage those who are so inclined to build out their responses. Really impressed by the caliber of response here. Thanks!