RPGCrazied
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He can't go a day without talking about his election win. Its exhausting.
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Senate Republicans to make another attempt at Obamacare repeal
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He can't go a day without talking about his election win. Its exhausting.
LudicrousSpeed
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They already passed a 2017 budget. Passing that was what allowed them to create reconciliation instructions that allowed ACA reform to take place under reconciliation. They're looking to pass the 2018 budget because that will allow them to create reconciliation instructions to craft a tax cuts bill, which is what they want to use their 2018 reconciliation bill on.
The key is that the budget is just a plan for spending, while they have to actually pass appropriations bills to actually provide funding. This is why everyone's discussing NDAA, because that's the defense appropriations bill and is the key thing to making sure that defense operations actually get funded.
Hyperactivity
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Gubernatorial Elections are also heavily in the Democrats' favor.
Darker colors are incumbents that can run for re-election, lighter colors governors who are either retired or term-limited
shawnbuddy
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Twitter was a mistake.
BoboBrazil
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What was Fox talking about when he tweeted this?
balladofwindfishes
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Gubernatorial Elections are also heavily in the Democrats' favor.
Darker colors are incumbents that can run for re-election, lighter colors governors who are either retired or term-limited
This will pay dividends going into 2020 with the redistricting.
2016 elections and North Korea, if we go by his latest tweets.
Hmm.....
Maiden Voyage
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When I said this year's budget, I meant the one coming up, not FY2017.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Made fun of him at a dinner where people go specifically to make fun of each other.
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thepotatoman
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That's true.
It feels bad asking this, but what are the chances of McCain passing away anytime soon? It would really suck if they just turn around and pass skinny repeal with McCain's appointed replacement.
McCain's likely to die within a year. We'll see though.
McCain's governor is against skinny repeal, so the person he'd pick would likely also be against skinny repeal. One can hope(not for McCain to die, but it's likely he's looking at retirement at minimum).
SodiumBenzoate
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Gubernatorial Elections are also heavily in the Democrats' favor.
Darker colors are incumbents that can run for re-election, lighter colors governors who are either retired or term-limited
Ohio Florida Michigan are going to be sooooo important.
Not to mention once Sketetor is out in Tallahassee, the state will actually expand Medicaid for about 1 million people. Probably.
UberTag
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This will play in the background once the Republicans are finally successful in destroying American democracy...
HP_Wuvcraft
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Obama being president for almost a decade doesn't help, either.
Glitchesarecool
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I mean it's really the only major thing he's accomplished so far.
Journeywalker
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Can we get the Senate Parliamentarian in here? DetectiveGAF? Does she already have a GAF account?
Gen Kelly doesn't start until Monday, once he does this will all stop on a dime
RPGCrazied
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RPGCrazied
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But Trump will still be Trump. The disaster continues. Its him. If he can't change, disaster continues.
Repeal and replace! I guess dude really cared about that part of his campaign.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Lol, Obamacare is the name Republicans gave it when they wanted to brand it under him and kill it that way
Laevateinn
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They should have called it the Affordable Care Act. What were they thinking?
AZ Greg
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He didn't name it that.........
Obama didn't call it that brah, all republican branding
Its real name is the affordable health care act
I agree. I think the name should be Affordable Care Act. It has a nice ring to it.
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Great minds think alike, Laevateinn.
Wait really? Lol, well that's certainly a very republican thing to do
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
Pro troll. Well done.
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
This lesson should be learned by now, there is no polishing Trump. No one can make him not operate in a chaotic shitstorm.
It's nothing but trash.
Ohio is going to be tough because no big name democrats are running.
Tyraniboah
Member
Trump treats this country like it's one of his businesses and like senators and representatives are his employees. And the Republicans are cowering in fear because of it. He does his damnedest to appeal to police and military. He downplays the importance of education and preaches about the "freedom" to not have healthcare. He's a bigot with a history of such. He hands positions of importance to his family and friends and the corruption of his administration runs deep. The man is a white nationalist authoritarian and we can't afford to have him for eight years. He's doing enough damage and we're not even a year in.
Please get out and vote in 2018. Make sure there's at least a Democrat majority so he can't get shit done.
Please get out and vote in 2018. Make sure there's at least a Democrat majority so he can't get shit done.
fredrancour
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Woah that wasn't trolling? The official name is "affordable care act." republicans made up "Obamacare"
Reince being dragged from every direction.
Journeywalker
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I'm frightened of the possibility of Trump's typical shitstorm combining with two external shitstorms to create The Perfect Shitstorm.
How About No
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I'm shocked...not about Reince, but the fact Trump said he's been reading. Unless he means text on a television screen...
...you really thought Obama named the bill after himself?
Dash_Riprock
Member
I knew the Gop had good propaganda but damn...
Clearly their strategy worked lol
Yeah, it's legitimately scary how many people fell for the "Obamacare" branding. Obama and liberals only took it up once it became clear the branding was pretty much stuck to the bill permanently. Everything else was solely the RNC machine.
Democrats are trying to do the same thing with "Trumpcare" but it's not nearly as effective because a.) there has yet to be a single successful bill that can be branded where bill x is Trumpcare as with the ACA, and b.) the democratic machine isn't nearly as Orwellian in nature as Fox News et al. so it's not as effective at fear and labeling.
UberTag
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To be honest, I felt Mark Burnett did as good a job of polishing Trump as possible.
But his team had the added benefit of isolating him within the confines of a 48-minute TV show.
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