Mitch McConnell just invoked a rule to allow #Trumpcare to bypass normal committee hearings & debate

[iluvtennis]

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the 3GOPThugs are truly deplorable. They don't care about the ppl, just about their political careers and lining their pockets.

[luvMIdog]

1. That's okay when they serve up that polished turd their kingdom is going to fail BIGLY

[guillaumeb]

2. Never underestimate the ignorance of the average voter.

And never underestimate the power of incumbency.

[luvMIdog]

4. they are going to have to know that the GOP failed them when they need to use the healthcare

[guillaumeb]

6. One thing being discussed is to have the provisions of GOPcare take effect in 2020.

Avoiding the problem of 2018 and allowing a Presidential election to overshadow coverage of 24 million losing healthcare. The GOP might be heartless bastards, but they can be clever heartless bastards.

[luvMIdog]

10. yes sneaky heartless cowardly crooks

[Blue_true]

26. If that is the case, we should focus on getting a majority in Congress

and winning the White House in 2020. Then reverse what they did in the first week and stay with Obamacare until we patch the weak spots.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. That will only happen if Democrats frame the debate with powerful language & keep reminding them.

The debate continues on TV and social media and doesn't end even if they pass it.

[msongs]

5. obama is black. no matter how bad trump care, his voters will love it nt

[guillaumeb]

7. True. Trump truly seems to be on a mission to erase everything that President Obama did.

And racists will persist in being racists.

[iluvtennis]

33. Absolutely on point. Just shameful

[moonscape]

13. At my ripe old age, I've been learning this the last 7 months n/t

[TheBlackAdder]

25. Here's some TP for Mitch to use.

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[Drahthaardogs]

3. Let it pass.

Then let them reap their just rewards

[BigmanPigman]

8. Dear GOP, Thanks for my death sentence!

Murderous monsters! They should be tarred and feathered.

[smirkymonkey]

9. Fuck Mitch McConnell. That bastard will do anything to ram this disaster of

a healthcare bill through as long as he gets his bloody tax cut. I am beginning to think that he is the worst of them all. I hate him with a violent passion.

[3catwoman3]

16. I detest McConnell even more than DFT, which...

...I would not have thought possible.

[MBS]

18. My feelings, too. n/t

[Eliot Rosewater]

28. Traitor and killer, he and Ryan dream about killing as many of us as they can.

[zentrum]

12. McConnell fits every

...definition of a demon. He smirks whenever he can make others suffer. What self-satisfied scum.

[BHDem53]

14. Turtlecare?

[lastlib]

21. TurdleDon'tCare

GOPDon'tCare.
tRumpDon'tCare.

[Alpeduez21]

15. They have to know this will cost them tremendous clout at the next elections.

They don't seem concerned with that.

Do they know something we don't? Like free elections are a thing of the past? There is no doubt in my mind that the Republicans are going to block votes. But are they even going to allow elections?

Trump has isolated us from the intelligence sharing of the world. That makes it harder to detect threats. Any attack, manufactured or not, will allow for the curtailing of our democracy. This is the goal. They want unfettered power.

I. AM. VERY. AFRAID.

[Akoto]

19. Odds are, as someone said above...

They will find some way of rigging it so that the changes don't take effect until 2020. The current administration would never have to deal with the impact or backlash.

I hope it doesn't pass at all, but if it does, I hope they have to live with every minute of it rather than dodging the consequences.

[anneboleyn]

23. I think the "optics" will be devastating though, and waiting until 2020 would be risky since a dem

president could undo much of the nasty crap they are trying to do. Paul Ryan is behind this and the Repubs are going to suffer for it. It's very very stupid.

[mn9driver]

17. The GOP knows their base will believe any absurdity.

As long as it comes through the propaganda outlets they've been trained to believe.

[lastlib]

20. Bush*'s Law:

(*Poppy)

"A politician will be successful in direct proportion to his ability to convince a majority of voters that the bullshit he is feeding them is actually whipped cream."

McTurdle is feeding us shit and telling us it's whipped cream. FUCK him. FUCK Ryan. FUCK tRUMP! FUCK TrumpDontCare!

JUST FUCK 'EM ALL! With a chainsaw.

[Beartracks]

22. Cuz nothing says democracy like ramming legislation down people's throats. n/t

[anneboleyn]

24. Trump promised his people "good health care." I honestly think this is another very bad move for him

His people were repeatedly promised good healthcare in which they would be covered, preexisting conditions included. He sounded like Bernie Sanders. Now he's fallen in line behind Paul Ryan. Yes I didn't believe any of his shit either but I think this is a bad move as far as HIS base is concerned, which is of course very good for us.

[Jake Stern]

29. Already taken care of

The talking points are already in place blaming Obamacare and the Dems. Idiot rednecks will eat it up.

[Eliot Rosewater]

27. They are trying to kill millions of us.

[Docreed2003]

30. I pray for backlash, sadly I don't see it from the average red stater

I had a lady in the office last week who lamented the fact that her PCP had retired...she fully blamed "Obamacare because "He hated that Obamacare...it ruined his practice". Now this is a red state that did not expand coverage under the ACA, thanks to the rethugs here, and this lady was convinced, as well as her retired PCP, that Obamacare was terrible and should be thrown out. That's the ignorance we're up against.

[benld74]

31. Special place in hell for GOP

[CentralMass]

32. Congressional Dems needs to use every media appearence to hammer the impact of this bill home.

[bresue]

34. If it would not be so detrimental for many...

I wish it would pass just so Dump voters would get a dose of their own medicine....

[Vinca]

35. "Trumpcare" aka "the plot to kill their own voters."