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Captain_Swoop said:
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As I predicted all along, Obamacare has been struck down as an UNCONSTITUTIONAL disaster! Now Congress must pass a STRONG law that provides GREAT healthcare and protects pre-existing conditions. Mitch and Nancy, get it done!

Wow, but not surprisingly, ObamaCare was just ruled UNCONSTITUTIONAL by a highly respected judge in Texas. Great news for America!
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Here's the thing : ObamaCare has been an economic disaster for the US and the economy is doing better than it's ever done!


If you were a professional Republican, would you want two more years of this? Like the Wall, overturning ObamaCare is Trump's thing, it's not the GOP's thing.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

As I predicted all along, Obamacare has been struck down as an UNCONSTITUTIONAL disaster! Now Congress must pass a STRONG law that provides GREAT healthcare and protects pre-existing conditions. Mitch and Nancy, get it done!

Wow, but not surprisingly, ObamaCare was just ruled UNCONSTITUTIONAL by a highly respected judge in Texas. Great news for America!
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Is it also great news for America, you moron, that if this stands, the ban on pre-existing conditions also goes away?

A federal judge in Texas has ruled the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional, finding that the law cannot stand now that Congress has rolled back the mandate that everyone carry health insurance or pay a fine.

The new ruling poses a significant threat to the Affordable Care Act’s most popular and most sweeping health insurance reforms. If affirmed at higher courts, it could roll back Obamacare’s ban on preexisting conditions. Insurers would once again be able to charge sick patients higher premiums. The Trump administration had partially supported this lawsuit, filing a brief asking the court to overturn Obamacare’s ban on preexisting conditions.
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Essentially, the state attorneys general are arguing that the individual mandate isn’t severable from the rest of the law. If the court finds the mandate unconstitutional, then the rest of the law — everything from protections for preexisting conditions to the Medicaid expansion required calorie labeling on menus — has to go down with it.
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https://www.vox.com/2018/12/14/18065838/obamacare-unconstitutional-texas-ruling
 
CapelDodger said:
If you were a professional Republican, would you want two more years of this? Like the Wall, overturning ObamaCare is Trump's thing, it's not the GOP's thing.
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It's totally the GOP's thing. So's the wall. Trump is just the GOP with the maturity dialed down and the corruption and spite dialed up.
 
Beelzebuddy said:
It's totally the GOP's thing. So's the wall. Trump is just the GOP with the maturity dialed down and the corruption and spite dialed up.
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Trump is as alien to the GOP as he is to the rest of human society. He's not their sort of politician, he's no sort of politician at all.


The GOP doesn't want a wall, nor do they believe that the US is being overrun by immigrants. If anything they're concerned about the supply of cheap seasonal labour, not to mention that a wall might interrupt the flow of guns to the cartels, which wouldn't please the NRA one little bit.


They know they can't replace ObamaCare now people have got used to it. They knew it when they let it pass, which makes Obama's achievement even more impressive. They would rather let it lie.
 
CapelDodger said:
When they do it it's sarcasm when we do it it's irony. More classy, but a bit clumsy in this case. I blame my nephew, who sent me a crate of craft beers for Xmas. A good boy. Stays in the will.
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I had a case of Leffe Ruby sent from Belgium for my hubby's Christmas gift. He's going to be one happy camper.
 
dudalb said:
The Blue Collar Trump workers should look at Hungary, where a Trump like populist government which got into power with their support just sold them down the river with a law giving employers the right to demand basically 10 weeks of overtime a year without any recourse.
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I saw that, absolutely insane.
 
Stacyhs said:
I see there is a new thread devoted to this. I suggest we take the discussion there.
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Shut the lawyers in another room : always a good policy. Here we can discuss the political implications of Trump's enthusiasm, and his airy call on "Mitch and Nancy" to come up with a plan. (Trump, of course, said he already had a plan when he was running). Nancy will be happy with that. Mitch will wish Trump wouldn't poke a stick into that wasp-nest.
 
So what's the current over/under on a government shutdown next Friday? The more I see Mueller turning the heat up, the more I think Trump might be desperate enough to do it and hope it takes some of the attention off his own crumbling facade.

CapelDodger said:
The GOP doesn't want a wall, nor do they believe that the US is being overrun by immigrants. If anything they're concerned about the supply of cheap seasonal labour, not to mention that a wall might interrupt the flow of guns to the cartels, which wouldn't please the NRA one little bit.


They know they can't replace ObamaCare now people have got used to it. They knew it when they let it pass, which makes Obama's achievement even more impressive. They would rather let it lie.
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Not to hear them tell it. You're ascribing motives which don't match their rhetoric. Before Trump, I might have agreed with you that it was all just so much grandstanding. Now I have a different opinion. I think they resemble Trump much more than the moderate vision you're describing here.
 
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Hellbound said:
Much like the reaction of a pack of wild dogs once the former pack alpha shows weakness...
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My Dad avised me to be nice to the people I met on the way up because I might meet them again on the way down. Even in the wild, fading alphas don't always get eliminated. It rather depends on how many friends they have in the next tier.

Trump, of course, never heard any such advice, and has no friends. In fact, I don't think he's had a moment's real intimacy with anybody in his adult life, if ever.
 
Beelzebuddy said:
Not to hear them tell it. You're ascribing motives which don't match their rhetoric. Before Trump, I might have agreed with you that it was all just so much grandstanding. Now I have a different opinion. I think they resemble Trump much more than the moderate vision you're describing here.
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The GOP's opposition to ObamaCare has only been rhetorical. They've "overturned" it when it had no effect, but they have President and Congress for two years, doing away with ObamaCare was supposed to happen Day One (replaced by Trump's plan), and two years on it still hasn't.


I'm not thinking in terms of moderation, I'm thinking how a rational professional Republican, mid-career, might be looking at this. The mid-terms confirmed their worst fears, and two more years of Trump is all potential downside, no potential up. He has nothing to offer. Pence and the new Supreme Court, on the other hand, could ban abortion and corral the Evangelical vote for 2020.



If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well it were done quickly ...
 
CapelDodger said:
My Dad avised me to be nice to the people I met on the way up because I might meet them again on the way down. Even in the wild, fading alphas don't always get eliminated. It rather depends on how many friends they have in the next tier.

Trump, of course, never heard any such advice, and has no friends. In fact, I don't think he's had a moment's real intimacy with anybody in his adult life, if ever.
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As evidenced by his willingness to throw anyone under the bus if something doesn’t go his way. He demands loyalty from everyone in his circle but never returns the loyalty.
 
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