Approval ratings: Obamacare 57% - Repub tax scam 29%. Ezra Klein article

[underpants]

The American people voted for populism. They got plutocracy.
By Ezra Klein

According to a poll from Public Policy Polling, 57 percent of Americans now approve of the Affordable Care Act. Only 29 percent approve of the GOP’s tax cuts.

Reflect on those numbers for a moment. Republicans have managed to make tax cuts less popular than Obamacare. It’s impressive.

But there is also something confusing about it. This is not how politicians are supposed to act. Politicians are meant to have an instinct for self-preservation, a sense of the public will, a fear of electoral consequences.

When I talk to Republican politicians about this bill, I hear less about its merits than I do about their fears of winning power and ending the year with nothing to show for it.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/18/16782484/gop-tax-bill-cuts-reform-republican

[MikeydaDog]

1. I am curious if they ask Affordable Care Act, instead of ObamaCare, if it would be higher.

I know when talking to others about ACA, I call it ACA and not ObamaCare, especially talking to a Republican about getting on it because it is just the smart thing to do, and it would work well for them. It is amazing how often these people hurt themselves to support the Republican.

I will throw in ObamaCare after they are listening and interested to connect the two.

They are stupid, too.

[Doodley]

2. I am not even seeing much effort by Democratic lawmakers to educate the public about the tax bill.

[SoCalMusicLover]

3. The American People Can Go Fuck Themselves

Anybody who voted for a repub in the last election, deserves whatever tax increases they get. I have absolutely ZERO sympathy for them.

I feel for those who were intelligent enough to vote Democratic.

Screw all the poor "Woe Is Me" folk, who say they were duped. Screw 'Em.

[Cha]

4. Thanks underpants!