Paid
Assassins
"What kind of Congressman do you take me for?"
"We both know what kind you are, we're just determining
the price."
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By the looks of things thus far in Stumblefuck's
presidency the GOP has decided to make
it crystal clear to anyone with a pulse that their
party platform is "Making
a permanent underclass a reality."
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Here's what the GOP health care bill is really all
about:
Republicans want to give their masters a huge tax cut
and one good place, as far as they're concerned, to
find the money is Medicare. If they take it from Medicare
they're NOT INCREASING THE FEDERAL DEBT which is how
they can pass the bill with only 51 votes. (Any other "tax
relief" would require 60 Senate votes.)
For Republicans, it's a three-fer. (1) It makes it
LOOK like they're "repealing" Obamacare and
(2) the Medicare money will come back to them as campaign
funds.
The best part for the GOP is that (3) old people, poor
people, and brown people, will suffer.
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The GOP condemnation of the CBO score of their health
plan is undercut greatly by the fact that the CBO's
scoring of the ACA was dead-on accurate for percentage
of newly-insured, and only over-estimated the total
number of newly-insured because the SCOTUS unexpectedly
cut the legs off the Medicaid expansion.
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Final thought on the Jon Ossof race in Georgia:
Everyone knew it was a safe district for Republicans,
deeply Red and heavily gerrymandered, and yet the GOP
had to spend almost $50 million dollars to just barely
keep it.
On to 2018.
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You know those trials where the police shot and killed
citizens? Those juries were carefully chosen to reject
anyone with a bias towards law enforcement. I've been
called to serve one of these sorts of trials and before
they even begin the voir dire you have to answer a
questionaire about your opinions on guns and cops.
Needless to say, I didn't make the cut.
=Lefty=
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