MrRodgers
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Unlike when the dems put forth Obamacare, all too typically, the repubs don't want you to know what they are up to. Despite the lack of consensus within the party, Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, on Wednesday began the process of fast-tracking the bill under Rule 14, which enables the Senate to bypass the committee process and instead move the bill on to the Senate calendar for a vote as soon as it is ready. This will allow the legislation to move much as it did in the House swiftly and secretively. The Senate aims to vote by the end of the month, and will probably do so with no hearings. This stands in stark contrast to the process leading up to the passage of the Affordable Care Act, which included over 100 congressional hearings. That's when despite the bullshit you've been hearing since, repub amends. were allowed, offered...some of which were passed. It's called democracy. Republicanism 101: The A.H.C.A.’s fast-tracking is not driven by necessity, but rather by the concern that a more transparent legislative process would lay bare the reality that the bill, if passed, would cause millions of Americans to lose their health insurance and drive up costs for millions of others. It's called capitalist fascism. HERE .....not to mention devastate Medicaid and substantially defund Planned Parenthood. If in 2018 the repubs do not pay a steep price for this, we are all fucked and not just if need be...dying younger.
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You can be a murderous tyrant and the world will remember you fondly but fuck one horse and you will be a horse fucker for all eternity. Catherine the Great Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. J K Galbraith
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