This is who we are, GOP crows; remember that

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

“This is who we are. This will define us.”

Speaking truth for once, Paul Ryan chose those remarkable words to rally Republicans behind his brazen wealth transfer from the not-rich to the rich, disguised as a health care plan.

His words were laughably dim yet absolutely accurate. It is who they are. It should define them, until elected Republicans return to sanity or the end of time, whichever comes first. Drowned in the latest execrable excretions from the Gold House, Trumpcare still struggles for life.

It’s revealed truth on the right that the Affordable Care Act was “jammed down our throats,” hurried through with no hearings, no input or amendments from conservatives. Everything about that is false; even Nancy Pelosi’s infamous quote was taken out of context. (New York: tinyurl.com/no-aca-rush) It is, however, almost entirely true of Trumpcare. Some Republicans acknowledge the difference (Talking Points Memo: tinyurl.com/cotton-bail). Cobbled together in the basement of the Capitol, it was rushed to the floor with little input outside Ryan’s circle and before it could be scored by the CBO or read by pretty much anyone. That introductory ruse would have yanked coverage from tens of millions (Congressional Budget Office: tinyurl.com/cuts-care). Nothing in the latest changes that.

After eight years of cynical “our-base-will-believe-anything” repeal votes on Obamacare without proposing a replacement, their first depredation with Trump in power garnered 17 percent approval. (One assumes it represents those who’ll get enormous tax breaks, and those who don’t care as long as they’re unaffected.) Passing the House by a hair, the latest go-round pried loose a couple of vote switches by adding an amount to high-risk pools so paltry it’ll help about 5 percent of people in individual markets with pre-existing conditions (Avalere: tinyurl.com/no-cover). Unlike Obamacare, though, Trumpcare did achieve bipartisanship: twenty Republicans joined Democrats in voting no.

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[dchill]

1. I haven't forgotten, Paul Ayn.

[dalton99a]

2. Liars, thieves and traitors.

[stuffmatters]

3. Dems should explain that GOPcare threatens all, employer provided insurance too

By allowing employers to shop for sewer policies across state lines and by revoking the essential protections
demanded by Obamacare policies, just those two features of GOP"care" alone threaten everybody's insurance and health.

And the two conditions that are most tortured by GOP"care" are getting sick (i.e. their sadistic preexisting condition sick/death pool) and getting old (i.e. their hundreds of billions from Medicaid & let Grandma die on the street) Bulletin...these conditions are inevitable for everybody! Everyone gets sick someday & everyone gets old (and long term care cost/insurance) prohibitive to most. Nursing home care through Medicaid is very much an
exigency of our middle class social safety net.

These GOP Reps voted themselves out of GOP"care" and into their own taxpayer funded Cadillac coverage for themselves. Surely their exquisite long term care funded by us care included

And for regular Americans they are taking away everybody's insurance security and obscenely gifting their billionaire puppeteers with nearly a trillion dollars instead.