Autodidact
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Louise Slaughter, who nearly got slaughtered in 2014 but won by a decent margin last year.
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PoliGAF 2017 |OT5| The Man In the High Chair
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Louise Slaughter, who nearly got slaughtered in 2014 but won by a decent margin last year.
whyamihere
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California should probably build more affordable housing so they can get more congressmen in cities aka SF.
Random Human
They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
Trump fantasized about torture porn on stage at tonight's rally
Christ, he sounds like the Joker.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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Nope. Shaq played way too long.
balladofwindfishes
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That little 90 year old lady is Loiuse Slaughter, my rep. I have never been repped by anyone other than her in my entire lifetime.
Going to be weird when she retires.
Against the same guy!
That near loss was part of the reason my mom registered to vote in 2016, for the first time in her life (and of course because of Hillary).
benicillin
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HanShotFirst
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Imagine how sick it would be if we had a President Slaughter?
Autodidact
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Will the Compassionate Moderates in OT cancel their GQ subscriptions now? They wrote a scathing article about a WAR HERO with CANCER!!!
GoldenEye 007
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Depending on how this health care vote ultimately goes, we're well on our way!
balladofwindfishes
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The old southern firebrand from western New York's still got some kick left in her
Autodidact
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I wish we still had Barney Frank on the House floor making sick burns. He would've snatched some souls these last six months.
Widdle Puppy
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ShadowSwordmaster
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VendettaRed07
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Yeah, that would be nice too.
Anything so that we have some sort of back up plan or don't find ourselves in a difficult situation or with a gulf in leadership should something unfortunate happen over the course of the next few years.
Also I don't want a repeat of what happened with Republicans. Ryan was thrust into the job way too quickly and has shown he is terrible at it. We don't want that to happen should find ourselves in the position to actually pass legislation.
Autodidact
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Chris Van Hollen would've been a decent replacement if he'd stayed in the House.
neurosisxeno
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Trump describing a 15-16 year old girl as beautiful is more nauseating than anything. I have no doubt were it not frowned upon/illegal most of his wives would have been in that age range when he married them...
whyamihere
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"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because Janet Reno's her father." - Sen. John McCain about an 18 year-old Chelsea Clinton.
Trump saying he would bang his daughter if she wasn't his daughter is more nauseating than anything.
Autodidact
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At least they're sending their best butchers.
whyamihere
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GoldenEye 007
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So on this skinny repeal proposal, CBO estimates it would save $416 billion over 10 years. Does that fund their tax plan?
neurosisxeno
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Yea he kind of has no moral high ground to defend (fabricated) women at this point. The guy is a pretty huge pig.
It's savage af, but not entirely wrong...
VendettaRed07
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Any chance Trump vetoes the Russia sanction bill right before the skinny repeal vote
That's like...nothing lol
SatelliteOfLove
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He's probably moved on to yelling at Zinke that he can't set up a coal burning plant on a national monument.
Or he threatened to snatch Capito's SuperPAC one.
Trump fantasized about torture porn on stage at tonight's rally
August will be him living in this Happy Place 24/7 at this rate.
Aaron Strife
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No.
Their tax plan was predicated on gutting Medicaid.
Basically, AHCA/BCRA pays for its exorbitant tax cuts by gutting Medicaid and subsidies, but that wasn't the real aim.
Tax reform would repeal the AHCA/BCRA tax cuts to "pay" for whatever scheme Ryan cooked up next year. Those tax cuts weren't built to last, they just provided an excuse to go in hard on the social safety net.
The end result would have been cutting Medicaid to do tax reform, essentially. The $416b saved by repealing the mandate wouldn't go towards anything anyway.
Aaron Strife
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Yeah but that was dumb.
Still a mandate-less ACA is a win when the alternative is BCRA. Kind of. I don't know, this is all hard to process.
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Dubbedinenglish
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I think he's just going to not sign it, and after 10 days it becomes law.
GoldenEye 007
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Hm, so how would their tax plan fit into this if "skinny" repeal passes? It wouldn't really move the budget for anything useful it seems.
I posted his attack flier earlier today. He went pretty hard at Hillary w it tbh.
While still being absurdity terrible.
Frank the Great
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Doesn't a mandate-free ACA die a fiery death? I thought the entire purpose of the mandate was because insurers can no longer deny coverage due to pre-existing conditions. Always thought the two were intrinsically linked.
Yes, it would completely destroy the individual insurance market. The whole thing would death spiral.
They would have to find some way to pay for the tax cuts in the tax bill. Assuming they want them to be permanent. I'm guessing they will give up on that and just do temporary tax cuts like Dubya did.
aspiegamer
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I'm surprised that the stock market has in no way reacted to the very obvious realization that they're not getting all those magical regulation waivers and tax cuts they were promised. Oh, and that republicans seem fine sabotaging the health care industry + they have an entirely different plan for the energy industry than what it wants.
What the freaking hell is he talking about? Like, seriously? Did he see this in a movie? An intel briefing? YouTube? 4chan? A hentai? ((Kidding)) There 4+ girls involved, by his accounting? One 16, a 15 and... "others." What the hell are we not being protected from anymore, allegedly? And since he's the goddamn President, it's sort of on him to fix it if this problem does exist!Trump fantasized about torture porn on stage at tonight's rally
The CBO says that it would just be a premium hike of 20%. Less to most people, because of the subsidies.
Aaron Strife
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It doesn't. They'd have to find savings elsewhere. Starting from scratch essentially.
GoldenEye 007
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CBO estimates a 20% increase in premiums as a result. Also like pigeon said, it would likely cause insurers to just full on pull out. There would be a much smaller "currently healthy" pool to help support those that need insurance more.
Then of course when those people that were healthy become unhealthy, they all of a sudden have no insurance. And it'll probably be extremely expensive.
I guess subsidies would help at some level.
Subsidies are only in the exchanges, if all the insurers pull out those become pointless. Of course individual states might be able to pass their own mandates and try to deal with some of the damage that way, but even then the national exchange would die a horrible death.
Autodidact
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So basically, blue states could notice little to no change, and red states could be fucked?
Good going, Don.
I honestly don't know the law here, but maybe. Then again, the mandate isn't popular so the odds of any one state trying to keep it are low. If I were a NY assemblyman and was trying to bring it back, assuming our single payer's going nowhere, I'd tie it to a state-run public option and make it easily affordable. It might get through that way.
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