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RE: BWAHAHA! - They Fucked It Up!
March 24, 2017 at 5:48 pm
schadenfreude much? lol
I don't blame you. Me too, Min.
This is best because:
a) more people didn't have to be fucked over or die to prove them wrong.
b) it was a quick failure. Not drawn out over years where they can whittle down opposition and truth.
c) it'll be harder to blame it on anyone but the Republicans themselves.
The VERY best outcome would have been for it to go to a vote and fail, but that was too risky for both sides.
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RE: BWAHAHA! - They Fucked It Up!
March 24, 2017 at 6:10 pm
Quote:Baier argued the Republican’s plan to “drag [Obamacare] up by the root has not worked,” noting “they can’t get it through a Republican House, a Republican Senate and a Republican president.
This seems to be the whole nub of the core of the gist. When you - literally - have all aspects of government on your side and can't pass your first piece of legislation, it speaks to startling, mind-bending incompetence (not that I'm not happy about it - I'm delighted).
The best analogy I can think of is that this is like being dealt a royal straight flush as a pat hand and then losing the pot.
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RE: BWAHAHA! - They Fucked It Up!
March 24, 2017 at 6:26 pm
I rather suspect their going to have a similar problem with everything going forward. Trump didn't have much political capital to begin with, and he seems to have squandered most of it on this turd of a bill. Even his own party is taking him less seriously as time wears on.
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RE: BWAHAHA! - They Fucked It Up!
March 24, 2017 at 6:33 pm
This is definitely the best news out of politics in a long time, but, as the AHCA may have failed, it failed for the wrong reasons. Too many Republicans didn't think it fucked over people enough and didn't quite give enough to the wealthy.
Fucking scumbags, every one them.
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RE: BWAHAHA! - They Fucked It Up!
March 24, 2017 at 6:58 pm
Now is the time to work with Dems on single payer health care.
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RE: BWAHAHA! - They Fucked It Up!
March 24, 2017 at 7:10 pm
(March 24, 2017 at 6:58 pm)Manowar Wrote: Now is the time to work with Dems on single payer health care.
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Signing your own posts is silly and redundant.
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RE: BWAHAHA! - They Fucked It Up!
March 24, 2017 at 7:27 pm
I like being silly and redundant
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RE: BWAHAHA! - They Fucked It Up!
March 24, 2017 at 7:29 pm
I can't bear silly and redundant. You look a fool signing your name to everything. Have you no shame?
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