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PoliGAF 2017 |OT5| The Man In the High Chair
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Shao Kahn on the Lawn
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The pain of "skinny" passing is probably the best possible hope for removing Republicans from power ASAP and getting closer to single-payer.
It's going to hurt a lot but this abscess of Republican 'leadership' is going to have to be carved open and flushed at some point. Suffering is the only way to wake the country up from apathy.
It's going to hurt a lot but this abscess of Republican 'leadership' is going to have to be carved open and flushed at some point. Suffering is the only way to wake the country up from apathy.
The font and words remind me of students trying to reach their page quota.
We're anarchy gaf now
ShadowSwordmaster
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Are you fucking serious right now?
Wasn't that one of the points that required 60 votes?
Of course it has freedom in the name
FloydtheFathead
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Yes
RumbleHumble
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It appears to violate the Byrd rule, yup!
ArkhamFantasy
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Why do they keep calling all of their bills "freedom <x> act"?
BoogieWoogie
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Don't you see? This is their play.
They can say "we wanted to get rid of Planned Parenthood but we couldn't because of the dastardly Byrd Act" and it dies.
They can say "we wanted to get rid of Planned Parenthood but we couldn't because of the dastardly Byrd Act" and it dies.
To appeal to their base. That's all they have.
Oh, ye who are too young to remember Freedom Fries.
They have a fetish for these ironic names.
benicillin
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So they're going to try and vote on this tomorrow or like, right now
GoldenEye 007
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Our country in general is dumb as hell and they have short attention spans. Rivals goldfish.
RumbleHumble
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For the sake of millions everywhere, I hope you're right
TumblingHippo
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At some point if things get bad enough, what's wrong with letting a little anarchy spark up to match the anarchy of our current branches of government?
But, I see this a lot on message boards. People smacking others down for just venting when they know they can do nothing.
I guess I'm of the opinion that if stuff were to really really boil over it'll be sudden and without warning. In the meantime, I say let people vent.
balladofwindfishes
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Amibguous Cad
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With all due respect, it's pretty fucking shitty to tell all the people losing health insurance today their suffering is necessary to "wake the country from apathy." This is a human tragedy, not a political football.
ShadowSwordmaster
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I think it's tomorrow.
BoogieWoogie
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The Planned Parenthood defunding MUST have 60 votes. This is their way of ducking responsibility. I've been wrong before but this seems like the play.
Mackenzie 92
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wtf?
RumbleHumble
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Supposedly 2-3am tomorrow morning (aka tonight)
"Those damn democrats and that obscure rule they used to stop us from repealing and replacing Obamacare! Make sure to vote Republican to get above 60 votes next election!"
I hope this is where this is going.
Futurevoid
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CNN reporting McCain is still a no.
Maverick hope.
Though it would be delicious if he was the one to tank the bill.
Maverick hope.
Not really.
Though it would be delicious if he was the one to tank the bill.
balladofwindfishes
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I believe the pre-existing conditions stuff wasn't reconciliation-able either?
It's not passing the house without the PP stuff, so they're kind of stuck
benicillin
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This week might actually kill me.
Fun note, because of our work situation my family is actually on an individual market plan, although my wife's work pays for it.
If this passes we could definitely lose our insurance or have it seriously downgraded.
We both have a bunch of preexisting conditions and ongoing medication needs, so that would be, like, sad.
If this passes we could definitely lose our insurance or have it seriously downgraded.
We both have a bunch of preexisting conditions and ongoing medication needs, so that would be, like, sad.
BoogieWoogie
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This is it exactly. It's their one possible option, more pointing fingers.
RumbleHumble
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This is an actual plan they're proposing here. What the hell is McConnell thinking?
ShadowSwordmaster
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This is getting ridiculous.
I mean, he's obviously expecting the House to just pass this bill after the Senate passes it.
balladofwindfishes
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Has anyone asked Rand Paul about this? He's not going to like some of the additional funding stuff
Shao Kahn on the Lawn
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With all due respect, my wife and I have preexisting conditions that nearly bankrupted us before ACA and I don't need some person on a message board telling me what this means. We know what it means to decide whether or not to buy groceries or medicine.
The average American is either too stupid or too disinvolved to recognize how poisonous the GOP leadership is. Maybe they'll have an epiphany when the boot is put to their necks and they start to lose things that matter to them personally.
GoldenEye 007
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But if it defunds PP and apparently has other things in it that have been ruled as not meeting reconciliation, it won't get past the Senate.
Byrd rule violations dont make the whole thing require 60 votes, just whatever provisions are found in violation after a point of order is raised
BlastProcessing
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He is thinking that no one in his party has enough dignity or self worth to stand up to this horse shit. Do you blame him?
PP defunding passed the parliamentarian in 2015.
Maybe they think they can get it passed.
Or maybe they plan to just steamroll the parliamentarian.
If we want to get REALLY technical, they can override that. Depends on how far gone they are.
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