Make America Sick Again: Thank you, Senator Schumer

[lindysalsagal]

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/schumer-takes-hard-line-against-republicans-on-obamacare-233166

Schumer adopts Trump slogan: GOP wants to 'Make America sick again'
The new Senate minority leader outlined in a Playbook interview his strategy for pushing back on the Republican effort to repeal the health care law.
By JAKE SHERMAN and ANNA PALMER 01/04/17 06:52 AM EST

It's a world where health insurance companies are jacking up rates, Americans are losing benefits and illness is racking the nation.

This is the apocalyptic picture of America offered by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to describe how he sees the health-care landscape after Republicans gut Obamacare. And he has found a slogan -- borrowing from perhaps the most successful branding campaigns in modern political history -- that he hopes to turn against the GOP repeal plan: "Make America Sick Again."

This is good leadership. Let's hope it's not short-lived. Let's hope he keeps up with this and stays on the attack. Let's hope he calls out their lies. Let's hope he's really in for the 4 years.

Wish I had more confidence....

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. Like you, I'm skeptical... but, hey, at least Sen. Schumer is off to a good start... let's hope his opposition to the Fuhrer-Elect continues.

[mopinko]

4. i wonder what their personal history is.

they must have crossed paths sometime.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Have more confidence-- Schumer's an attack dog and doesn't back down...

He might be the best thing out there for us.

[angrychair]

5. Unlikely

He has already folded several times and co-sponsored a bill with McTurtle to criticize the UN and Obama administration on the UN's Israel vote. His willingness to side with republicans in the past is not a good sign and he is likely to be willing to give up a lot to trump for even the smallest of concession on something small and insignificant but still something that could be spun as a "win" for him.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. Ignore his Israel votes-- he's 100% for Israel and doesn't care who he's voting with...

Also understand that the President and majority leader have many ways to punish Senate adversaries, so there are times when hard choices must be made. ("We're on the fence about Senator X's Committee membership, and funding that East River Tunnel and hospital in Rochester. So...)

That said, this is the guy who buried D'Amato.

[madaboutharry]

3. Make America Sick Again is a great slogan.

The democrats must never let it go.

The sickness coming is not only in heath care. The nation as a whole is going to suffer from the sickness of authoritarianism. The American people need to be made to understand what is happening.