Tue Jul 18, 2017, 01:13 PM

They had 8 years - 8 fucking years - to come up with a replacement for

the ACA. They did not do it and still cannot do it. They are manifestly unfit to govern.

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They had 8 years - 8 fucking years - to come up with a replacement for (Original post)	KingCharlemagne	Jul 2017	OP
Gang that	MFM008	Jul 2017	#1
Breathtaking incompetence. I mean, just staggering. - nt	KingCharlemagne	Jul 2017	#4
It was all a huge feint all along	cilla4progress	Jul 2017	#2
Braindead and heartless	C_U_L8R	Jul 2017	#3
Utterly and completely bankrupt. Just unbelievable. - nt	KingCharlemagne	Jul 2017	#5
their plan was always to repeal the taxes on the rich and hang to poor out to die.	unblock	Jul 2017	#6
republican FAIL sucks for Americans	Achilleaze	Jul 2017	#7
GOP, you had one job. One job!	Tanuki	Jul 2017	#8
More to the point-what they've tried to pass isn't a replacement	Johonny	Jul 2017	#9
It's utterly breathtaking in its incompetence and sheer ineptitude. - nt	KingCharlemagne	Jul 2017	#10
This is what happens when rw AM radio rant is put into practice for real.	The_Casual_Observer	Jul 2017	#11
It's the Dems fault though..	HipChick	Jul 2017	#12
shit here is wisconsin they can't even pave the damn roads	dembotoz	Jul 2017	#13
There is an obvious reason they could not come up with anything to replace ACA	Cosmocat	Jul 2017	#14
Yup	Johnny2X2X	Jul 2017	#16
actually they had 24...since they helped defect HillaryCare back in 1993....	Fresh_Start	Jul 2017	#15
Replacing the ACA with Mercantile CullCare is like trading cardiomyopathy for aneurysms.	HughBeaumont	Jul 2017	#17
The republicans only exist to stop democrats from improving the country	workinclasszero	Jul 2017	#18
Since 2011	mercuryblues	Jul 2017	#19
Here's a secret.....	Adrahil	Jul 2017	#20
It was just a talking point to rile up their base.	progressoid	Jul 2017	#21
"Repeal" was and still is less about health care	moondust	Jul 2017	#22
Who knew health care was so complicated?	panader0	Jul 2017	#23
They don't give a fuck about replacing the ACA.	Initech	Jul 2017	#24
They were counting on Hillary winning and being in a position to veto their stupid repeal bills.	tblue37	Jul 2017	#25
They never intended to replace it!	atreides1	Jul 2017	#26
Whaddya mean replacement? They just wanted to give that black guy a bloody nose	Warpy	Jul 2017	#27
8 years of 😖 lying and grandstanding 😖 does not qualify as good governance. nt	procon	Jul 2017	#28
I have little to add to all the excellent responses that came to my OP. Many of	KingCharlemagne	Jul 2017	#29

Response to KingCharlemagne (Original post)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 01:14 PM

MFM008 (19,698 posts)

1. Gang that

Couldn't shoot straight.

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Response to MFM008 (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 01:20 PM

KingCharlemagne (7,908 posts)

4. Breathtaking incompetence. I mean, just staggering. - nt

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Response to KingCharlemagne (Original post)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 01:15 PM

cilla4progress (22,572 posts)

2. It was all a huge feint all along

Anyone surprised?

It's not so hard to recognize a serious adult, when one is encountered.

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Response to KingCharlemagne (Original post)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 01:15 PM

C_U_L8R (43,588 posts)

3. Braindead and heartless

Unfit. Inept. Blinded by toxic ideology.

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Response to C_U_L8R (Reply #3)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 01:22 PM

KingCharlemagne (7,908 posts)

5. Utterly and completely bankrupt. Just unbelievable. - nt

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Response to KingCharlemagne (Original post)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 01:23 PM

unblock (51,291 posts)

6. their plan was always to repeal the taxes on the rich and hang to poor out to die.

when the aca passed in the first place, they complained that it would create a big new federal program with a big new constituency and be hard to repeal later.

they were actually right about something for a change, but they made it sound like having a big constituency of well-served americans is a bad thing....

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Response to KingCharlemagne (Original post)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 01:24 PM

Achilleaze (15,543 posts)

7. republican FAIL sucks for Americans

The repubes' russian buddies might like it, but for Americans it sucks.

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Response to KingCharlemagne (Original post)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 01:24 PM

Tanuki (14,237 posts)

8. GOP, you had one job. One job!

http://youhadonejob.org/

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Response to KingCharlemagne (Original post)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 01:25 PM

Johonny (18,258 posts)

9. More to the point-what they've tried to pass isn't a replacement

It's basically a partial repeal which creates more problems and solves none of the ACA's existing problems. It's exactly how not to do government.

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Response to Johonny (Reply #9)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 01:35 PM

KingCharlemagne (7,908 posts)

10. It's utterly breathtaking in its incompetence and sheer ineptitude. - nt

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Response to KingCharlemagne (Original post)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 01:53 PM

The_Casual_Observer (27,263 posts)

11. This is what happens when rw AM radio rant is put into practice for real.

It never works.

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Response to KingCharlemagne (Original post)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 01:55 PM

HipChick (25,466 posts)

12. It's the Dems fault though..

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Response to KingCharlemagne (Original post)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 01:56 PM

dembotoz (15,817 posts)

13. shit here is wisconsin they can't even pave the damn roads

healthcare? way over their heads

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Response to KingCharlemagne (Original post)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 01:57 PM

Cosmocat (14,317 posts)

14. There is an obvious reason they could not come up with anything to replace ACA

It was THEIR FIN HEALTH CARE REFORM.

That this country indulged their lunacy in whipping their zombies into a frenzy over how horrible it was is example #1,000 of flat out stupid this country is.

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Response to Cosmocat (Reply #14)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 02:07 PM

Johnny2X2X (15,870 posts)

16. Yup

I was just about to post something similar.

This was their plan for the most part. Obama and company made it better so that it would cover more people, but by in large this was the GOP plan conceptually. Obamacare is a market based solution, what the Reps hated about it was the Medicaid expansion.

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Response to KingCharlemagne (Original post)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 02:03 PM

Fresh_Start (11,326 posts)

15. actually they had 24...since they helped defect HillaryCare back in 1993....

and after telling us that they knew better than the democrats for a quarter of a century..they still have no ideas.

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Response to KingCharlemagne (Original post)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 02:07 PM

HughBeaumont (24,461 posts)

17. Replacing the ACA with Mercantile CullCare is like trading cardiomyopathy for aneurysms.

This is on all the idiots who thought giving the shooting monkey a machine gun was a great idea in the first place.

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Response to KingCharlemagne (Original post)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 02:07 PM

workinclasszero (28,270 posts)

18. The republicans only exist to stop democrats from improving the country

And to steal every last dime we have and give it to the filthy rich.

Everything else they claim to stand for is a baldfaced lie for the suckers in the fox 'news' bubble.

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Response to KingCharlemagne (Original post)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 02:23 PM

mercuryblues (13,144 posts)

19. Since 2011

Republicans have voted 8 times to repeal the ACA in entirety. 54 times they voted to defund or delaying certain aspects of it. Knowing full well that Obama would veto it.

Now that they have all 3 houses of government, a repeal only bill would be signed by the acting president, they can't get the 50 votes needed.

When their vote was for show everyone was all in. Now that it actually means something the can't get the votes.

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Response to KingCharlemagne (Original post)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 02:24 PM

Adrahil (13,340 posts)

20. Here's a secret.....

.... some of them KNOW that we need major health care reform. The "repeal and replace" mantra was an act for the rubes for them. The mushy middle of the GrOPers have no idea what they want. They are driven by emotion, not policy. Telling people they can have better at lower cost while eliminating protections and fracturing markets is insane. It is a lie and always was.

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Response to KingCharlemagne (Original post)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 03:10 PM

progressoid (47,971 posts)

21. It was just a talking point to rile up their base.

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Tue Jul 18, 2017, 03:49 PM

moondust (19,056 posts)

22. "Repeal" was and still is less about health care

and more about racists asserting their superiority by trashing the work of the minority President and his party.

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Response to KingCharlemagne (Original post)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 03:54 PM

panader0 (25,660 posts)

23. Who knew health care was so complicated?

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Response to KingCharlemagne (Original post)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 04:05 PM

Initech (96,368 posts)

24. They don't give a fuck about replacing the ACA.

The reason they're doing it is out of pure spite for liberal ideals because they don't have anything that works. The democrats are Stark Industries,, the republicans are Hammer Tech.

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Response to KingCharlemagne (Original post)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 04:06 PM

tblue37 (58,313 posts)

25. They were counting on Hillary winning and being in a position to veto their stupid repeal bills.

It was always Kabuki theater, performed for their rabid base. They never expected to have their bluff called.

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Response to KingCharlemagne (Original post)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 04:27 PM

atreides1 (15,802 posts)

26. They never intended to replace it!

And they aren't interested in governing...they want to rule over us, in much the same way that Putin rules over Russia!!!

The Republicans want to be oligarchs and want to do away with all the trappings of a Democratic Republic, to include the US Constitution!!!

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Response to KingCharlemagne (Original post)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 04:48 PM

Warpy (106,556 posts)

27. Whaddya mean replacement? They just wanted to give that black guy a bloody nose

by repealing the best part of his legacy. These are very primitive people, acting on primitive impulses. They lack the capacity to plan, to test, to evaluate, and to implement---in other words, to govern.

The problem is that so many people in this country have been propagandized into being simpletons and spiteful fuckheads just like them. They won't notice there is no plan and no alternative until all the hospitals in their area shut down.

And they will. And they won't get them back.

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Response to KingCharlemagne (Original post)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 05:39 PM

procon (15,805 posts)

28. 8 years of 😖 lying and grandstanding 😖 does not qualify as good governance. nt

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Response to KingCharlemagne (Original post)

Wed Jul 19, 2017, 09:24 AM

KingCharlemagne (7,908 posts)

29. I have little to add to all the excellent responses that came to my OP. Many of

those responses constitute the seeds of good OPs of their own and I strongly encourage those who are so inclined to build out their responses. Really impressed by the caliber of response here. Thanks!

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