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Showing Original Post only (View all)let's just take a moment to appreciate just how impressively epic this fail is [View all]
republicans control the white house and both houses of congress.
they essentially campaigned on repeal of obamacare for eight solid years and claimed their victory was a mandate to do just that.
obamacare includes some taxes (on high earners), so repeal by definition includes a tax cut.
and they're in a new president's first 100 days, historically the ideal time for passing new legislation.
... and they couldn't even get it though the house, where democrats have effectively zero power, not even the filibuster power we have in the senate.
this is truly an impressively epic demonstration of incompetence, not only on donnie's part, but also on ryan and mcconnel and the entire republican (non-)leadership.
FAIL
FAIL
FAIL!!!!
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let's just take a moment to appreciate just how impressively epic this fail is [View all]
unblock
Mar 2017
OP
If you don't pass your bill you don't get to go play golf with your friends in Florida. #newrules
TeamPooka
Mar 2017
#88
I have been sick of listening to "The American People want Obamacare repealed" for years.
nolabear
Mar 2017
#3
by next november foxnews will have them in an uproar about a democrat forgetting to run a virus scan
unblock
Mar 2017
#16
i think they're scouring local news across the country for a pretty blonde young woman gone missing.
unblock
Mar 2017
#14
Boehner has a big smirk on his face tonight. The tea party crashed the ship good this time,
JudyM
Mar 2017
#90
i think they'll leave it be for a while, but remove or reduce the taxes separately.
unblock
Mar 2017
#25
You could be right about this, but IMO, only as Trump is now predicting: DEMOCRATS will come up with
WinkyDink
Mar 2017
#37
They have to own the resulting legislation, which they are too cowardly to do.
joshcryer
Mar 2017
#84
What goes around..comes around... Republicans got exactly what they deserved!!!!!
Stuart G
Mar 2017
#46
It was orchestrated in that the Republicans thrive on failure, incomptence, and cowardice.
joshcryer
Mar 2017
#85
Raising enough public interest/support about this is bit of a long shot but it's worth a try.
JudyM
Mar 2017
#92
Interesting. Ryan's comment last night that they'd waited and worked on it 7 yrs seemed peculiar,
JudyM
Mar 2017
#93
And I truly believe it started on this day because of this ACT of Unity on Jan. 21,2017
turbinetree
Mar 2017
#71
Who could have predicted that people with nothing but contempt for governing would do it so poorly?
meadowlander
Mar 2017
#78
I love it. Thank you all who showed up, protested, wrote, inspired, and called.
58Sunliner
Mar 2017
#83
Now Republicans have two issues to use in every election. Repeal Roe v Wade and repeal Obamacare
world wide wally
Mar 2017
#100
i don't think this will play quite like roe v. wade. that's a supreme court issue.
unblock
Mar 2017
#106
Now if the voters could just figure that out we could maybe make the world a better place
world wide wally
Mar 2017
#110
I think it would be wise for us not to gloat too much. Until 2018 if we are able to take back at
still_one
Mar 2017
#101
i'm all too aware this is just one battle in a long, long war; that said, battles won are
unblock
Mar 2017
#107
the epic fail started with arrogance and horrendous project management skills.
unblock
Mar 2017
#108