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[SoRuffShoNuff]

The only places that counts as middle class are midtown Manhattan and San Francisco.

Firmly middle class in a lot of major cities. Atlanta, Miami, DC, Philly, etc..... That's still middle class.

 

[Spider from Mars]

Democrats better start running on a message of single payer.

 

[Brawly Likes to Brawl]

Can Republicans for once not act like evil assholes regarding healthcare? Why is caring for other people and their health such a hard concept?!

Rich people need to be given more cushioning.

 

[Buckle]

Can Republicans for once not act like evil assholes regarding healthcare? Why is caring for other people and their health such a hard concept?!

Nah, man.

They need more money. Theres never enough.

Turn over as many weak and poor that they can find and theres always a lil bit more to be saved.

 

[SchrodingerC]

Rich people need to be given more cushioning.

Nah, man.

They need more money. Theres never enough.

Turn over as many weak and poor that they can find and theres always a lil bit more to be gained.

Money overriding basic human decency once again.

 

[Man-is-Obsolete]

Wait where in the CBO does it say it cuts taxes to the middle class?

 

[cameron]

Washington Examiner: McConnell: Senate will 'soon' act on healthcare bill

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell praised a Congressional Budget Office analysis of the GOP bill to partially repeal and replace Obamacare, pledging lawmakers would "soon take action," on the bill.

McConnell has not scheduled a vote. Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, told reporters a procedural vote to begin debate could occur as early as Tuesday.

Republicans are negotiating with their conference to find 50 votes needed to pass the bill. At least five Republican lawmakers want changes in exchange for their support.

Both Dean Heller and Rand Paul have said they won't vote on the motion to proceed to the health bill. McConnell can only lose 1 more.

— Jonathan Weisman (@jonathanweisman) June 26, 2017​

 

[Ziltoidia 9]

Do they even tell you what the middle class "cut" is?

Hint: Its probably pennies.

 

[RaidenZR]

Washington Examiner: McConnell: Senate will 'soon' act on healthcare bill

Both Dean Heller and Rand Paul have said they won't vote on the motion to proceed to the health bill. McConnell can only lose 1 more.

— Jonathan Weisman (@jonathanweisman) June 26, 2017​

This thing is getting passed. McConnell is in DeathTurd polish mode now.

 

[PandaPandaPanda]

Washington Examiner: McConnell: Senate will 'soon' act on healthcare bill

Both Dean Heller and Rand Paul have said they won't vote on the motion to proceed to the health bill. McConnell can only lose 1 more.

— Jonathan Weisman (@jonathanweisman) June 26, 2017​

i'm expecting for the bill to be "pulled", a minor amendment introduced and then it's rammed through

 

[CornBurrito]

Remember folks:

Killing tens of thousands with aggressive legislation = valid difference of opinion you must respect.


Killing one person = MONSTER

 

[Plinko]

Matt Fuller‏Verified account @MEPFuller

John McCain says there are "lots" he'd like to see changed in the health care bill, but not withholding support.

"That's not how it works."

Ladies and gentlemen, the maverick himself.

 

[Fancyarcher]

Ladies and gentlemen, the maverick himself.

What a hero!

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

Ladies and gentlemen, the maverick himself.

He can go fuck himself.

 

[RoKKeR]

15 million people losing insurance in a midterm year

Good fucking luck

 

[Tovarisc]

15 million people losing insurance in a midterm year

Good fucking luck

"It's ACA leaking into our great and everyone saving health care plan, Dems are at fault here"

Or some other cool spin to blame Dems for it.

 

[cress2000]

Money, the only god these fuckheads worship.

 

[theWB27]

Ladies and gentlemen, the maverick himself.

I think we know how you work maverick. Concerns and all.

 

[Tovarisc]

https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/879466879911424000

 

[Ziltoidia 9]

https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/879466879911424000

Translation: CBO is now fake.

 

[theWB27]

"It's ACA leaking into our great and everyone saving health care plan, Dems are at fault here"

Or some other cool spin to blame Dems for it.

So much of the left will nod their heads and help with the blame. Telling others on the left that not having power isn't an excuse when it comes to not stopping this. Either abstaining or voting right to prove their point that dems should just do more to earn them back.

 

[jackissocool]

people say violence has no place in politics but I see no way to interpret this as anything other than genocide scale violence

 

[Raven117]

Democrats had a pretty solid grip on Congress until 1994. So the terrible messaging seems to be a more recent phenomenon.[/QUOTE
Strangely coinciding with Republicans starting to lose their damn mind.

 

[Beartruck]

"It's ACA leaking into our great and everyone saving health care plan, Dems are at fault here"

Or some other cool spin to blame Dems for it.

"We did what we could to fix it but it was in too much of a death spiral to fix!"

But for real though, they're fucked. Yeah, most republican senators are in safe areas, but once the AARP funds a rival republican they'll get primaried to pieces.

 

[balladofwindfishes]

https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/879466879911424000

I get the feeling Trump isn't pleased by the headlines.

 

[LiK]

https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/879466879911424000

This is a disaster.

 

[Protein]

And all the old dumbshit white people are still gonna turn out in droves in 2018 and 2020 to vote for them because at least those brown folks can't leach off the system neither.

Laughable.

Racist old white people and ISIS have more in common than they think. Only they would sacrifice their own lives just to make sure browns and blacks get taken down too.

 

[Zophar]

https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/879466879911424000

This might dupe Fox news viewers but it doesn't dupe the Republican Senators that know this is a garbage bill and it's one of their guys running the CBO numbers.

 

[thecouncil]

I guess CBO shouldn't have bothered with their estimate.

Well, ...unless the numbers hadn't been so goddamn dreadful then it'd be "check out what CBO said!"

 

[BotoxAgent]

https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/879466879911424000

So what he's trying to say is that CBO is inaccurate and it's actually 50 million who will die

 

[NullPointer]

Strangely coinciding with Republicans starting to lose their damn mind.

Fox News launched in 1996

 

[Steel]

So what he's trying to say is that CBO is inaccurate and it's actually 50 million who will die

This is what I don't get. You've got a republican appointee running the CBO. Why would they be more optimistic about the ACA than a republican plan?

 

[SodiumBenzoate]

https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/879466879911424000

90% of that is due to states not expanding Medicaid you dishonest pieces of shit

 

[zashga]

If the CBO consistently over-estimates how many people will be insured under new healthcare legislation, then we're super screwed. Good point, office of the press secretary!

 

[BotoxAgent]

This is what I don't get. You've got a republican appointee running the CBO. Why would they be more optimistic about the ACA than a republican plan?

Yeah their logic and reasoning is whack. But trump voters are dumb as bricks so they won't care :/

 

[Darknight]

https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/879466879911424000

Holy shit how can the US/White house stoop so low. (rhetoric question)

This is literally the start of the "1000 years of darkness" those assholes were saying, only projecting the misery they were about to bring to the country.

 

[Balphon]

McConnell: CBO proves we're right!

White House: CBO is fake news!

Even their messaging is a shitshow.

 

[Not]

15 million people losing insurance in a midterm year

Good fucking luck

I don't even know if this will hurt them. That's where we are right now.

 

[Koomaster]

https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/879466879911424000

This seriously reads like the CBO overestimates coverage when it releases these scores. Why would this be your defense? It would make more sense if the CBO in the past underestimated coverage. Then you could say, hey they get this wrong, actual coverage will be GREATER than what they are saying. Instead of this which makes their own plan sound worse. o__O

 

[abundant]

https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/879466879911424000

MSNBC ran a segment today showing that the Republicans saying not to trust CBO were full of shit. Basically, the CBO was usually within the margin of error with their predictions or something changed and they had to adjust for it.

 

[Apharmd]

Ladies and gentlemen, the maverick himself.

Gracefully grimacing while he puts in his yeas. Dissenting by assenting. Novel!

 

[balladofwindfishes]

I don't even know if this will hurt them. That's where we are right now.

They were already likely to lose the House. This will just amplify the wins even more and put the senate squarely into play

 

[SoundofSilence]

Ignore this post.

 

[Makonero]

i am so discouraged. what the hell can we do. we're so fucking powerless. it's like watching a train coming while tied to the fucking tracks.

 

[RPGCrazied]

Hope the women senators save us from this bill.

 

[BoogieWoogie]

Collins is a no.

That's three is Rand holds.

 

[cameron]

Collins is a no.

That's three is Rand holds.

https://twitter.com/SenatorCollins

 

[RPGCrazied]

Murkowski was just on CNN, sounding like a no to me. Was she one of the no's too already counted?

 

[Fenderputty]

Rand Paul will flip because of tax cuts.

 

[NullPointer]

Do they even tell you what the middle class "cut" is?

Hint: Its probably pennies.

Is just the removal of the ACA Mandate?

McConnell: CBO proves we're right!

White House: CBO is fake news!

Even their messaging is a shitshow.

Well now Republicans have the freedom to choose which reality agrees with them most.