The current "thought" rattling around inside the empty head of Putin's useful idiot (and all- around idiot) Donald "Not Exonerated" Trump is that he now has "political capital" to spend after "Coverup General" Barr wrote his whitewash letter on the Mueller report. As we noted yesterday, he immediately took his presumed "political capital" and handed it right back to Democrats by supporting the striking down of the Affordable Care Act, which would kill affordable health insurance for nearly 30 million Americans.
His rotted out Republican Party thought they had a powerful message going into the 2020 election: "Those socialist Democrats want pie- in- the- sky single- payer health insurance and we reasonable Republicans will just tinker around the edges to make the system better! Freedumb!" Now, thanks to their Very Stable Genius' decision to support striking down the ACA in toto, their party has been lashed to the gunwales of the S.S.
The panic level for Republicans who already know what Dimbulb Donnie apparently doesn't -- that Democrats ran on protecting health care in 2018 and won big -- is sure to increase as polling continues to show that Americans don't want Republicans messing around with their health insurance. Here's yesterday's Quinnipiac poll:
American voters say 55 - 32 percent they would prefer to improve rather than replace the health care system in the U.S. No listed group prefers replacing the health care system.(Single- payer has strong support (43%), but still isn't the majority opinion.)
So, the Very Stable Genius has, once again, wrong- footed the message his bad faith party wanted to ride into 2020, and (schadenfreude alert) it's causing alarm in the ranks of the sociopaths:
Over the past 24 hours, Republican officials have watched in horror as the Trump administration once again fully embraced the repeal of Obamacare, just over a year after the issue proved toxic for the party at the ballot box. [snip]
GOP officials couldn’t help but marvel at Trump’s inability to enjoy a rare grace period. “They are completely tone deaf,” texted one of the party’s top strategists. “How bout a few more victory laps on Mueller while you can get away with it? WTF is wrong with them?”
But seasoned Trump hands were hardly surprised at the rake Trump had placed his foot on. “And there’s something unusual about him stepping on a good message?” one former administration official said, laughing when asked about the timing of the announcement. [snip]
As such, the department’s new position set off alarm bells among Republicans who had spent much of the 2018 election cycle trying to alleviate voter concerns that their attempts at health care overhaul would—contrary to the likely outcomes—leave those with preexisting conditions vulnerable to the whims of private insurers. Fergus Cullen, the former chairman of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee and a critic of the party’s approach to Obamacare repeal, compared the rejoining of the debate to the famous battle-of-wits scene in The Princess Bride.
“The one,” Cullen stressed, “where he talks about the rules that you should never get into a land war in Asia.”Meanwhile, rational people (a.k.a., the Democratic Party) will be working to strengthen the ACA, providing a sharp contrast to the sabotaging efforts of Republicans over the past few years. Until we get a new Senate and a Democratic President, though, the ACA remains in peril and improvements such as single- payer remain a goal to be fought for.
BONUS: An "anonymous Republican Senator" (stay spineless!) wants nothing to do with Trump's latest genius move. Too late, jackass! You own this.
BONUS II: Oops. Now it's the top Republican in the House telling Trump to back off. You can almost smell the panic.
2 comments:
panic level of republicans???? I think by now we should realize they are willing supporters of the mad king. They really dont care. Half are religious zealots who cant wait for the world to end (in a nuclear holocaust) the other half have grifted enough to retire nicely anywhere climate change has not ruined.
wjbill -- We're just sharing what others are reporting. Willing supporters or not, it appears enough Repugs are interested in saving their electoral hides to want to distance themselves from this move, although we'd be very happy if they weren't aware enough to panic as they head off the cliff in 2020.
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