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is that the "Democrats aren't working with us," even the dogmatic Cruz echoed the comment this past weekend.

The hypocrisy is that the GOP has a majority in both Houses of Congress, and given that they are attempting to pass health care thru reconciliation, both houses of Congress are pure majority based bodies, they don't need the Democrats, the Democrats could stay home and it wouldn't make a difference. And the biggest laugh is that the GOP is doing everything in secret, no hearings, closed meetings, so what do they need the Democrats to do?

It is all on the GOP, and after two and half years of a GOP Congress they have proven that they can get elected but can't govern, all talk, but they can't deliever, which makes sense since a lot of them campaign as demogogues playing off of peoples' anxieties and fears
 
do you seriously think the Dems would buy into HC?
The Resistance is an utter rejection of working together-it's even more grotesque then the Republican Obsructionism under Obama in that it included even cabinet members, and it's about de-legitimization..

I have no use for the Republicans. If they can't do just 1 damn thing - they deserve to lose the Senate..
But the Dems are worthless too.

"everybody plays (political) games until somebody gets hurt" the problem is all this hurts our country.
a pox on partisanship
 
anatta said:
do you seriously think the Dems would buy into HC?
The Resistance is an utter rejection of working together-it's even more grotesque then the Republican Obsructionism under Obama in that it included even cabinet members, and it's about de-legitimization..

I have no use for the Republicans. If they can't do just 1 damn thing - they deserve to lose the Senate..
But the Dems are worthless too.

"everybody plays (political) games until somebody gets hurt" the problem is all this hurts our country.
a pox on partisanship
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The Democrats position of HC has never changed, they want the fixes needed to the ACA to address developing problems. From the offset the law was meant to be a work in progress, to be addressed and amended as necessary, President Obama even stated such, but the GOP's only goal was to repeal and replace it, and once they won control of the House and later Senate, the fix attempt was history

They have been at it for nine years now, and now they have everything in place to repeal and replace it, problem is that don't have the replacement. If they were serious about bringing on Democrats they would forget the repeal and replace banner and fix the law
 
We live in curious times when idiots are in charge, idiots are the majority in congress, and if Trump has his way, the scotus will be a majority of idiots. And then along comes Donnie Jr and just when you thought idiocy had bottomed out Donnie Jr goes even deeper. These people, the rich and pampered live lives that create naive fools but the hard part is the working class finds in these fools salvation. How is that even possible, are the American voters this dumb?

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...ald_trump_jr_thinks_he_did_nothing_wrong.html

The Trump follower. The "least resistant personality profile'

"So how can such a company get a community to accept it? The plant manager's best course of action, Powell concluded, would not be to try to change the minds of residents predisposed to resist. It would be to find a citizenry unlikely to resist.

Based on interviews and questionnaires, Powell drew up a list of characteristics of the "least resistant personality profile":

• Longtime residents of small towns in the South or Midwest
• High school educated only
• Catholic
• Uninvolved in social issues, and without a culture of activism
• Involved in mining, farming, ranching (what Cerrell called "nature exploitative occupations")
• Conservative
• Republican
• Advocates of the free market

When the big oil companies first came to Louisiana in the 1940s, 40 percent of adults in Louisiana had no more than a fifth-grade education, and its citizens were the least likely in the nation to move out of state. From the seventies on, most people had become Republican advocates of the free market and minimal government. Most of the people I met fit some or all of the criteria-they were long-time residents, high school educated (half were), conservative, and Republican. That description fit the Arenos and largely fit Lee Sherman. Those who resisted the oil industry fit a very different profile-young, college educated, urban, liberal, strongly interested in social issues, and believers in good government. Was the "least resistant personality" one susceptible to what General Honore had called the "psychological program"-the talk of "jobs, jobs, jobs" that had "just enough to it?" Or was that too easy an idea, an idea from my side of the empathy wall? "

Excerpt page 80. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28695425-strangers-in-their-own-land


"The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto." Eric Hoffer
 
anatta said:
do you seriously think the Dems would buy into HC?
The Resistance is an utter rejection of working together-it's even more grotesque then the Republican Obsructionism under Obama in that it included even cabinet members, and it's about de-legitimization..

I have no use for the Republicans. If they can't do just 1 damn thing - they deserve to lose the Senate..
But the Dems are worthless too.

"everybody plays (political) games until somebody gets hurt" the problem is all this hurts our country.
a pox on partisanship
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You bitch a lot but never offer ideas for solutions.

Back seat driver.
 
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