And the real issue, I think, is that Obamacare WAS the compromise!
Right? I feel like if Republicans could fix some of the things in Obamacare that need to be fixed (one big thing is drug pricing), they would be re-elected FOREVER. Imagine campaigning on "Remember how your drugs under Obamacare used to be $700 a month, but now they're $40 a month? You know who fixed that? ME!!! Re-elect me forever!" And voters would.
But instead they just want to destroy Obamacare, which is not going to get them the votes they think it will.
The NYT has an article this morning about how it's historically been difficult/impossible to take away benefits/entitlement programs once they've been enacted.
It turns out, people like getting services! Who knew?? (Besides everyone.)
Let's get to the nanobots so I can spend all my time making up football games already.
You know the work I didn't want to do yesterday? Still don't wanna. And now I don't have google cricket.
Right? I feel like if Republicans could fix some of the things in Obamacare that need to be fixed (one big thing is drug pricing), they would be re-elected FOREVER. Imagine campaigning on "Remember how your drugs under Obamacare used to be $700 a month, but now they're $40 a month? You know who fixed that? ME!!! Re-elect me forever!" And voters would.
Hell, if they also dropped the whole "The Godless Gays are the source of all our problems!" rhetoric, that might make me vote to re-elect them.
Apparently the repeal idea has already collapsed:
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Apparently the repeal idea has already collapsed:
As much as I am relieved that they won't get this through for the people it would harm so badly, my first thought was Trump and McConnell must be seriously frustrated and pissed off. This pleases me. I can hardly recognize myself I have become so petty.
I can hardly recognize myself I have become so petty.
After the election, petty is all I have.
I was going to say, I'm so petty that doesn't even register as petty to me. Just a little splash of pure righteous joy.
Where I'm severely tested is my commitment to not wishing harm on others. I want those miserable cretins to suffer. Sometimes even my standard enemy wish, the Angel revenge (without the sex clause), isn't enough. I want boils and blinding torment, and that makes me feel like a horrible person.
