The Trump Presidency

[Yoshi]

And that is why the deliverer is more important than the non-story.

Wasn't Newsweek one of the editorial (as opposed to news) organizations that got caught with their hand in the DNC cookie jar? If not, it was only because even the DNC knew they weren't relevant anymore.

edit: If that story were intended to actually be informative, the first thing the author would have done is found out what, if any, overlap there was between the specific jobs targeted for Mexico vs. those replaced with automation. But the intent was never to report facts, so she didn't.

[cka]

that damn shillary

[Calliander]

Better be careful, cka, just because you're in Canada doesn't mean she can't have you killed.

[Melf]

And it was written in secret and even voted on before anyone got the chance to fully read it. Hypocrites indeed.

This is completely false and a tired, shameless defense to deflect attention from a horrible, horrible bill. The ACA was debated in multiple House and Senate committees -79 in the House alone over the span of a year - and had hours of bipartisan debate where amendments were allowed. Shit, the Senate alone included over 140 amendments and and had over 70 roll call votes. The full Senate debated it for more than three straight weeks before it was passed. Also, The CBO also provided multiple reports on the bill before it was voted on.

in contrast, the Republican abomination of a bill has had ZERO hearings and ZERO votes. Despite what Sean Hannity tells you, there is simply no comparison. Passing a bill without bipartisan support is not the same as simply not letting anyone - even members of YOUR OWN DAMN PARTY - see the thing before it's time to vote.

I sincerely hope that this bites Republicans in the ass so hard in 2018 that they don't win another election for a century. This is the worst example of "legislating" I've seen in my lifetime. Mitch McConnell should have his balls eaten from the inside out by the worst kind of parasite.

[Yoshi]

Passing a bill without bipartisan support is not the same as simply not letting anyone - even members of YOUR OWN DAMN PARTY - see the thing before it's time to vote.

You can read it right now, and not a single vote has been called in the Senate.

edit: I also like how you skipped the important part, that the current piece of shit is collapsing on itself, which would have been obvious to anyone who has any business sense from day one.

[bbobb]

Except it's really not collapsing on itself, the only places it's collapsing is where republicans purposely sabotaged it by purposely rejecting setting up exchanges and the Medicaid expansion

[Melf]

Pelosi's a dumb bitch that needs to retire. It doesn't change the fact that the bill was debated and Republicans had the opportunity to submit amendments, the opposite of what they're doing now.

And its problems have a lot to do with the obstruction Mitch the Turtle and his group have been doing since it started. Instead of fixing what's wrong, they'd rather sit back and let it die so that they can leave millions of people without care so their rich friends can get a tax break.

[A Robot Bit Me]

A lot of the regulations that made the ACA so expensive are pretty good things--things worth ponying up for. I'd imagine even Yoshi and his hard silicon heart (it's actually an old Soundblaster™ card) opposes, say, the AHCA reinstating an insurance company's right to impose lifetime limits on payouts.

[icarusfall]

edit: probably not a good idea.

[Bacon McShig]

The Republican House just drafted an aggressively terrible, unfinished healthcare replacement at the 11th hour that they knew would have to be almost entirely rewritten, and then hastily pushed it through less than a day later, before anyone could properly evaluate it and before most people read it. How is that not functionally identical to "We've got to pass it to see what's in it," made significantly worse by the fact that the turnaround from its introduction to its vote was far more aggressive, and any open concerns about it weren't even vaguely addressed or entertained?

It was a dumb statement by Pelosi, no doubt, but Republicans no longer have any leg to stand on in quoting it incessantly anymore. They used the exact same logic and piled some extra stank on it.