White House Poised to Really Fuck Shit Up
Kellyanne Conway has confirmed that the White House is willing to repeal the ACA without a replacement in place. I’m no economist, but I am a dyed in the wool capitalist, and this plan smells like a recipie for economic disaster.
And yet, this should not come as a surprise to anyone. Remember that fucking shit up is what Republicans believe they were elected to do.
White House aide Kellyanne Conway said Monday that Republicans could repeal Obamacare without also replacing it, which would violate Trump’s prior pledge to do both at once.
“Very hopeful, very confident that the President can have the bill on his desk this summer,” Conway told “Fox & Friends.”
“In terms of the procedure,” she added later, “it could either be repealed and replaced at same time, or you could do what happened in the 2015 Senate bill, where every Republican senator who was there except for one voted, and they voted to immediately do away with the penalties and taxes under Obamacare, they dealt with Medicaid as well.”
“The only thing that’s changed since their vote in 2015 to repeal Obamacare and now is that you have a Republican president willing to sign that into law,” Conway said. “And you have the failures of Obamacare that much more crisp and obvious in front of you.”
Until Friday, Trump had pledged to repeal and replace Obamacare at the same time — as opposed to simply repealing it and charging lawmakers with crafting a replacement in a separate bill.
It appears the “great negotiator” has no game when it comes to policy negotiations.
Who didn’t see this coming?
it is clear that Trump and the GOP haven’t given a lot of thought to health care, mainly because they are malevolent idiots.
Also, why bother when the people who are supposed to be some sort of counterweight are useless Democrats.
I don’t want to discount Republican malevolence, but I don’t think they can pass a straight-up repeal. especially as the mid-term elections get closer with every passing month.
I feel like nobody has been paying attention to what is really going on. While Trump plays the reality star and diverts attention, Steve Bannon is dismantling democratic institutions as we know them. Foxes guarding henhouses everywhere. Virtually no key government experts hired anywhere. Gorsuch merely the first of extreme right-wing judges, all confirmable thanks to Mitch McConnell. An all-out assault on voting rights.
With due respect, those who have said that Trump can’t get anything done are idiots. Rolling back all sorts of regulations accomplishes a lot, none of it good. They’re dismantling government and destroying democracy.
Judging from past behavior if the Republicans grow frustrated, as they already seem to be, they will do as much of a repeal as they can get away with and proclaim victory. This time it’s different with 2018 just around the corner, Trump is already an albatross hung round their necks and they don’t want another one. Same for tax cuts, there is no popular support for another round of tax cuts for the rich as nobody really believes said cuts will do anything besides make the rich richer. But they’ll do it anyway.
It’s an oligarcy. That’s what we have now. A rigged system where only the rich get richer.
That’s what we’ve had for quite some time now. Reagan’s “kitchen cabinet” was a cabal of rich guys who used a popular figure as a rubber stamp, first in California and then in the WH. Trump’s only change was to put those people in the actual cabinet.
I once expected sane people in Trump and Bannon’s orbit to put the brakes on the malevolence and idiocy. Now I know that as long as the gravy train is running, there will be no brakes applied.
Then I thought that the invisible hand of the market would apply some discipline. Again, there is money (short term gains) in pretending everything is okay, so …no dice.
I’m rooting for the deep state to rein in Trump and Bannon, just as the founding fathers intended.
lol. And the ghosts of James Madison, Thomas Paine, and John Adams? Although, the framers of the constitution are being tested beyond anything I could have imagine.
Mississippi telling Kobach to jump in the Gulf of Mexico is a good start.
Just remember to tell your Republican friends that say Obamacare isn’t working that Obamacare was actually a republican idea.
The Democratic party* idea was medicare part ‘E’. E for everybody.
*Democrats that are actual democrats and not wholly owned subsidies of corporations.
Oh, and as always, F. U. T. C. for killing the idea in committee.
this is sure to upset alby again… but looking to rebuild from this mess is all we can do. The real fun hasn’t even started yet. Kennedy will retire soon and the SCOTUS will be the last defense to fall. The deep state and “good republicans” are a farce. To reference a Doctor of Journalism…. no one is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.
Just wait till we’re actually at war with the one leader more insane than Donny. Most Americans will be BEGGING to trade their voting rights for a fallout shelter… or even the promise of one.
But I’m not ALL doom and gloom. I think it is likely that enough governmental infrastructure/ human life will be left after Pence loses in 2028 to being rebuilding our society. It is even possible that the no-nothing states will be a separate nation at that point… one can only hope.
That is why we must have young progressives now, as opposed to lining up behind sr citizens who will never have to see the future they are creating.