The 19 Republicans who flipped positions to support Obamacare repeal

Whores gonna whore. Anybody notice that Impotence is conspicuously absent from the list of preexisting conditions that are excluded from Trumpcare? Because the limp-dick Republicans GOTTA have their VIAGRA.

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This can’t hurt either

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I got it!

They can’t disco dance, right?

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The list is missing Rodney Frelinghuysen, of NJ-11. He’s the chair of the appropriations committee, with an undeserved reputation as a moderate, who was instrumental in the last-minute scuttling of the first AHCA bill. But then (allegedly after his chairmanship was threatened), he flipped and voted yes on this bill. If you’re in NJ-11 (or even if you’re not), here’s a group specifically committed to replacing Frelinghuysen in 2018: http://www.nj11thforchange.org/

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you mean before they were hiking by, like 20 percent? because the new thing is in the hundreds of percent if you have the bad fortune to be sick or old

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Mine was set to go up a mere 50% at the beginning of 2016, but that was enough to make me drop it and try a health care sharing ministry.

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I hesitate to touch this with a ten foot poll, but unless he did it because he was a white man, I think this line of thinking leads to a bad place for everyone.

Except, what if it is, at least partly, done because of being a white dude?

Never getting the short end of the stick makes it a lot easier to get your head to a place where people who are getting the short end of the stick deserve it, and and they just need to suck it up instead of making the rest of us help cover their healthcare

I mean, #NotAllWhiteMen and all that, but statistically, we (white people + men) voted for this crap

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The liberal party in BC has been experimenting with enforced demographics in terms of the candidates they field, and I am super uncomfortable with that. But pointing out that white dudes (mostly also straight & wealthy) have been spearheading the wrecking of the US social safety net isn’t exactly a radical position.

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I think gross generalizations of people simply because of their race and gender is intellectually lazy and ultimately harmful.

I can’t think of a single instance of such thinking that didn’t breed hatred and resentment on both sides.

but straight up ignoring of race has been 0% effective as a solution to racism and its problems

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Wait. Are you saying the white men voted for this because they’re racist?

Also, I’m pretty sure not making gross generalizations isn’t ignoring race. Indeed, not depersonalizing people in group and avoiding gross generalizations is actually how one overcomes most forms of group prejudice. Well that and integration.

Gohmert and Brooks are professional jerks.

I actually think they voted for this because they can’t imagine the suffering of anyone they don’t know personally. But the overwhelming (near 90%) white-maleness of the group of people who put together and voted for the ACA is too much to ignore.

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My congressman, Dave Reichert, was one of the 20 republicans that didn’t vote for the bill. I’ve voted for him for years even though I see myself as a democrat because he always seemed like a good person but the fact that he waited until the vote to decide because he felt he had to do his “due diligence” frustrates me.

Republican House members are 88% white men. Literally everything they vote on as a bloc ends up the same way.

Attributing their votes to their race/gender and ignoring the fact that they are Republicans is a bit of a stretch. Extending that belief to their entire race/gender is simple prejudice.

For me, interesting to know. But I wouldn’t have voted for any of them in any case.

You might remember Tea Party darling Dave Brat (column 2, row 3) as the economics professor who threw Eric Cantor out of office back in 2014. It was the first time a primary challenger managed to oust a sitting House Majority Leader since the position was created back in 1899.

You know this lobbying was funded by the all the new ACA customers, right?

that’s probably a fair assessment for some subset of them.

there’s a long standing tradition of opposing programs that are “race blind” but coincedentally affect minority groups disproportionately.

i blame white evangelical christians.

good people don’t lose their jobs. really good people don’t get sick. they look at their own personal history, see their own health and success, and believe they are solely responsible for their lucky outcomes.

they’ve got to hold fast to those ideas. it’s proof to their peers they’re leading the right kind of life their community demands.

in those occasions where the statistics don’t work out in their favor and someone gets sick, they either write it off as god’s inscrutable choice or they eject the person from their community.

white privilege has helped to enforce their world view, and white social networks help keep them afloat through the hard times.

i personally don’t think it’s lack of empathy or education. i feel it’s an exceeding skewed world view completely supported by everyone they know and respect.

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