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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis might be a very uneducated question but can this bill be obliterated if we win enough seats?
Greedy Bastard cuts rolled back? Money restored to social programs? Things in Congress are so shifty, I'm losing the thread as to what is possible and what is impossible.
RandySF
(59,206 posts)We need to win the White House in 2020.
Hopefully when "certain' people realize they've been scammed, they will start voting out the bastards and voting in people who actually care about the country.
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)or, control of the House and the Senate and the White House
Siwsan
(26,289 posts)I blame today's fall for scrambling my brain - even though I didn't hit my head. I just need to rationalize away my temporary 'ignorance'.
superpatriotman
(6,252 posts)Considering the unprecedented gas lighting we are all susceptible to occasional lapses.
It's like trying to perform surgery next to a running bus.
fierywoman
(7,693 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)It should be the first major push. Test the bounds of the federal governments authority to influence how elections are conducted in states. More transparency, uniformity, and the ability to do a physical recount; while aggressively expanding voters rights.
Then there is the gerrymandering. I think we should keep an eye on what Eric Holder is doing. It might be a great model to build on.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Democratic_Redistricting_Committee
fierywoman
(7,693 posts)GreenPartyVoter
(72,381 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)I guess we are screwed for years! I will be dead. Thank goodness I chose not to have kids a long time ago as a teenager. My neighbor feels the same way.
PaxtonSahara
(17 posts)Like the ACA repeal attempt . . . When we win back Senate and House next year.
Lochloosa
(16,068 posts)Siwsan
(26,289 posts)and now I have a grand-niece, too. I'm doing my damndest to make sure that I can leave them something, when I die. We are talking about starting up a multi-generational household so that we can all support each other.
fierywoman
(7,693 posts)Siwsan
(26,289 posts)I was in their life, starting immediately after their birth, and a week rarely went by when I wasn't with them. When my sister died, our relationships became even closer. So now I am the substitute grandmother to my nephew's daughter, and next month I'll be the Godmother of the Bride at my niece's wedding. It's bittersweet, and it's tough filling my sister's shoes, but also very humbling.
fierywoman
(7,693 posts)I truly believe that you and your family are the paradigm of the future.
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)And once the ACA is gutted, it really would be hard to restore the benefits.
This, at a minimum, does lasting damage and pretty much guarantees that Republicans will be able to drown some social safety net babies in the bathwater.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Yavin4
(35,445 posts)But her emails!!!
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Fucking idiots.
Yavin4
(35,445 posts)to be the heartless fucking, psychotic assholes that they are. Saw it coming a mile away.