What are you talking about? The only thing throttling the republicans right this second is the fact that they didn’t do a good enough job hiding how thoroughly they’d be screwing the american public.
McConnel wouldn’t even commit to 10 hours of tabling before the vote, originally.
Americans like the ACA. That’s a simple fact evidenced by the polling. more than 50% of americans polled like the ACA. More than 50% know the AHCA will make insurance either more expensive or completely unavailable for a lot of people.
The republicans just barely didn’t manage to keep the public in the dark long enough to get away with this.
Next time we might not be so lucky. The republicans have a track record of successfully passing secret legislation to take people’s rights away.
If the republicans need the CBO to be ethical and moral in the first place (also, they’re working hard to try and discredit it), then they’ve already proven to be worthlessly corrupt.
It sure is nice congress decided to create the CBO in the past. I’m sure it can be disbanded by congress whenever they feel they don’t want to know how many american voters they’re killing in order to give some rich people a tax break.
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But of course, in the end the GOP won’t be satisfied until the only people allowed to vote are the six richest people in the US, and then they can crown a dictator or king.
Well if you want to go that route, then the heat death of the universe is a check on rampant greed as well
However, and as you well know, checks and balances refers to the powers divided amongst the three branches of government. The CBO, of course, has no power. It is purely advisory.
So, no; the CBO is not part of the checks and balances. And you either know that and are dissembling, or you are an idiot and should pipe down while the grown ups are talking. Edit: @Israel_B has made it clear that he does not believe he is an idiot. I tend to agree that the other option is more likely.
I think under Eisenhower they were relatively fiscally responsible. But the only thing that they’ve been consistent on since Reagan is that taxcuts are ALWAYS the answer to every question.
Since Ford, actually. Dumbass economist draws a bell curve on a napkin, with no data to support it, no context to explain it, and within a few months, every conservative everywhere is convinced that raising taxes ALWAYS reduces revenue, which isn’t even what the Laffer curve says anyway.
We could repeal the Apportionment Act of 1911, which undid the parts of John Adams genius work that made the House hard to control, yielding todays House of Little Senators.
Barely. 51% is certainly more than half, but it’s hardly a mandate, and it means that roughly half the country doesn’t like it. One of the greatest failures of Obama and the Democrats with the ACA is that they allowed the detractors to control the narrative about it. By limiting the details to the last minute, I think McConnell thought he could control it better. Now that it’s delayed, that’s more unlikely.
THe issue is that people tend to look at things with a very myopic view. Health insurance is a prime candidate for this. They look at their own health care needs and the costs of their insurance and say “I don’t want to pay for that person over there. They should pay for them self.” They see they pay XYZ for their coverage while they think that person is paying a fraction of that amount and get all fired up with “why am I footing the bill for them!?!?”
They don’t get this is how insurance works. All insurance. They just do not get it.
I listened to an acquaintance complain “I am barely making ends meet. Why do I have to watch other gets things for free at the expense of my tax dollars”. And I didn’t argue with them as it wasn’t going to lead anywhere but he simply didn’t see “because as much as you struggle to make ends meet. THEY have even less. Far less than you. You barely make ends meet. THEY can’t make ends meet at all!”
People that support the GOP simply have zero empathy or charity for their neighbor.
Either way, they have all the ducks, and they can’t line them up no matter how hard they try for a repeal, and the ACA is the law of the land.
Anything is debatable, a much smaller subset of debatable things are options. I’d say repealing the ACA is not one of the options the GOP has, despite being “elected to do so” [narrator: they weren’t], their self preservation instincts keep kicking in. This time it was Collins(ME).
It is a truth in the U.S, MOST people, across most income levels can barely make ends meet. Unless you’re living in a cardboard box, there IS somebody lower down who IS living on less than your income. So Most people would have an easier time making ends meet if the lived the lifestyle of those who have lower incomes are forced to. The thing that being middle class does is make it easier to do is weather unanticipated expenses like a new alternator for your car or a new washing machine. But almost anybody in this country can have a medical issue arise that is a big enough bump to bankrupt them.
As they drive down the public roads past the police and fire station, through traffic controlled intersections designed by professional engineers, to the Post Office to send in their kids FAFSA application to attend a land-grant university, I imagine a lot of people think that.
The above description is of a conversation I’ve had, it’s not made up. He complained about the ACA under exactly that circumstance. He was driving and I was riding shotgun, a little amazed he could drive so safely with that sort of nearsightedness.
Quite so. The article made no sense. The GOP postponed the vote because they did not have the votes. The CBO scoring was peripheral to that although it couldnt have helped. The WH is staffed by C-teamers because competent people wouldnt accept an offer to work for Trump for fear it would damage their long term career - and because they wanted nothing to do with him. As a result, the WH team is constantly behind the curve on writing legislation and getting their basics done. They were just very late in finding out they didnt have the votes.
