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http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a55726/mcconnell-healthcare-bill/Gaze in Awe at What Mitch McConnell Hath Wrought
Is Trump even the worst we have to offer?
By Charles P. Pierce
Jun 19, 2017
One day, when this is all behind us, and Canada has done us the supreme sacrifice of friendship by annexing us for a spell until we've regained our sanity, I predict that the primary delivery device for the virus that drove us mad in 2017 will not be reckoned to have been Donald Trump but, rather, Mitch McConnell, a carrier of the creeping death. It was McConnell who best saw the opportunity inherent in the process of installing an arrogant dingbat at the head of the executive branch, and it is McConnell whose personal politics were as cruel and venal as they had to be to take advantage of it.
What he's trying to do to the healthcare of millions of Americans should be enough to send him to hell on a bus ticket. And, as we see from The Hill on Monday, it's actually getting worse.
The proposal would start out the growth rate for a new cap on Medicaid spending at the same levels as the House bill, but then drop to a lower growth rate that would cut spending more, known as CPI-U, starting in 2025, the sources said. That proposal has been sent to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) for analysis, a Senate GOP aide said The aide said that plan has been described as a "consensus option that has been sent to CBO," though no final decision has been made yet. Another aide said there are still other options in the mix. Democrats and some more moderate Republicans were already warning about Medicaid cuts in the House-passed bill, which reduces Medicaid spending by more than $800 billion over 10 years.
Almost as bad as McConnell are these so-called moderate Republicans who are so terribly troubled about it all, but who can't seem to do anything but wring their hands. Doesn't one of them have the guts to leak the secret plan to fight good health? Three of them could stop the whole train, especially now that Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer has called the majority's bluff.
Almost surely, McConnelland his Freedom Caucus gunselsdon't care about the damage they're preparing to do, in secret, and are full of the confidence of knowing that there isn't a big enough vestige of a conscience left anywhere in their party to stop them short of doing as much damage as they can. The real barbariansnot the gold-plated onesare at the gate.
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Charles P. Pierce: Gaze in Awe at What Mitch McConnell Hath Wrought (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jun 2017
OP
Mitch "Turtle-Head" McChinless is all of the proof you need to see the corrupt effects of
Dustlawyer
Jun 2017
#3
I'm at the point of... let them throw it out. They will lose their majority before anything
Maraya1969
Jun 2017
#8
dalton99a
(81,590 posts)1. Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)6. Because Americans.....
keep voting against their best interests. All the GOP has to do is mention the magic words, gays, abortion, Mexicans, Muslims, or any of a hundred other "dog whistle" words, and BAM, instant majority!
MLAA
(17,329 posts)2. Excellent article, thanks for sharing n/t
Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)3. Mitch "Turtle-Head" McChinless is all of the proof you need to see the corrupt effects of
money in our politics. This bill alone with the $800 billion in tax cuts they get more than pays for what they spent to get it!
Hekate
(90,827 posts)4. KnR
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)5. Canada can annex me now. (Please)
K&R
Initech
(100,104 posts)7. Oh no, far from it. Trump is just the beginning.
When Trump is gone, they'll install someone far scarier. The GOP will eventually find someone who will make Trump look tame by comparison.
Maraya1969
(22,500 posts)8. I'm at the point of... let them throw it out. They will lose their majority before anything
can be enacted. And after that, when the next president is put in office it will be a Dem too and we can pass Universal Healthcare
Let them cut their own throats.