DING DONG the Graham-Cassidy bill is dead, probably . Thanks to John McCain, PBUH , and badass Susan Collins , Republicans' last, worst chance to kill Obamacare under this fall's budget reconciliation is kaput. I stopped thinking Cassidy-Graham could pass when the WH brought LePage in to lobby Collins. Like they knew nothing about her.
It's the only way they know how to live. What would they do instead?
Classic addiction problem. The thrill is gone from winning, and even the tiniest loss cost them the feeling of omnipotent and eternal success. There's a limit to how much more time they have, unless they can learn how to buy more of that.
NPR reported several months ago that by the time a mammogram find something, there's a very good chance that it is actually benign...but cancer is so frightening that women are scared into test after test. It's not just the money, or the convenience. It's the Fear Factor. Meanwhile, women are reduced to being guinea pigs for "the latest test."
Yeah, I know. There's always going to be a few positives. The ratio of false positives is something that doesn't get enough air time.
Let's imagine that your sibling -- let's say your brother -- calls you up an announces that Mom, unknown to both of you, has a total of $1 in life insurance. He's figured out a few ways to do Mom in and make it look like an accident: you and he could could split a million bucks tax-free. If you tell him can I please have a day or two to think it over --
Let's say they got their way and wiped out everyone on the planet who isn't them (yes, right wingers have called for the deaths of every single other person at one point or another).
When they are the only ones left they'll divide up into factions over things like which group are the real Christians and who's the most pure "Conservative" and they'll kill each other off pretty quickly.
They are too emotionally retarded to ever admit they do anything wrong and that any of their problems are of their own making.
Everything wrong in their lives is always someone else fault. They always need a target.
When there are no more liberals, gays, hispanics, etc., left they'll target each other.
That's exactly what happened to me in a math class. The problem was fairly complex and I completely forgot how to work it so I just wrote down an answer. I got it exactly right but didn't show any work because I didn't do any.
My instructor gave me 1/2 point out of 4. He never cared about the answer. He cared how you got there. You could get 3.75 out of four and have the answer completely wrong due to a minor math error if you worked the problem properly.
Because, all the Will Rogers "I am not a member of any organized party — I am a Democrat." jokes aside, the Democrats were largely on the same page in 2009 -- at least as far as the goal of greater coverage, if not the details of how to achieve that goal. And Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid knew who's arms to twist, and what incentives to offer, to get the stragglers on board.
By contrast, the Tea Party wave of 2010 brought in a flood of nominal Republicans... who weren't really Republicans. They were anti-Obamas, and since Obama was a Democrat, and the Republicans were the non-Democrats, they waved the Republican banner by default. The Tea Partiers weren't elected to legislate, they were elected to obstruct.
On top of that, while the establishment Republicans had been around long enough to understand that talking about shrinking the government was good for getting elected but bad for getting things done, the Tea Partiers didn't really care about getting things done -- they believed their own "government is inherently bad" hype.
Thus, you have two vehemently opposed groups who share the Republican party banner out of convenience. They have multiple fundamental differences as to the philosophy of governance, and many of them can't stand each other on a personal basis either. There simply isn't enough overlap in the Venn diagram of "what sane Republicans want for healthcare reform" and "what the Tea Partiers want for healthcare reform".
EDIT: Correction: The overlap is declaring that the ACA is terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad. Which they have voted for literally scores of times when it didn't matter. Now that it does matter, the sane Republicans aren't crazy enough to do any more than that.
It's the only way they know how to live. What would they do instead?
Classic addiction problem. The thrill is gone from winning, and even the tiniest loss cost them the feeling of omnipotent and eternal success. There's a limit to how much more time they have, unless they can learn how to buy more of that.
I hate it when a position softens.
NPR reported several months ago that by the time a mammogram find something, there's a very good chance that it is actually benign...but cancer is so frightening that women are scared into test after test. It's not just the money, or the convenience. It's the Fear Factor. Meanwhile, women are reduced to being guinea pigs for "the latest test."
Yeah, I know. There's always going to be a few positives. The ratio of false positives is something that doesn't get enough air time.
Greedy bastards all seem to have the same ugly. Something in the eyes.
Let's imagine that your sibling -- let's say your brother -- calls you up an announces that Mom, unknown to both of you, has a total of $1 in life insurance. He's figured out a few ways to do Mom in and make it look like an accident: you and he could could split a million bucks tax-free. If you tell him can I please have a day or two to think it over --
Your name just might be Lisa Murkowski.
Well, some will. The holy goose-stepping evangelicals always have another scapegoat handy.
It is though. This isn't even new news. It's been all over the sources I read. People need to pay more attention.
https://www.youtube.com/wat...If you don't know much about these assholes, here's a start....
Yhea, I just don't see them doing this during an election campaign.
McCain is a piece of shit. They're "friends" or something so it's fine that he defends him but it's not going to tug at my heartstrings.
If McCain were a decent human being he wouldn't be a Republican. Same goes for all Republicans.
I can't even give them humane love. They can all fuck off and die as far as I'm concerned and it's fine with me if they skip the fuck off part.
Here's a clue.
Let's say they got their way and wiped out everyone on the planet who isn't them (yes, right wingers have called for the deaths of every single other person at one point or another).
When they are the only ones left they'll divide up into factions over things like which group are the real Christians and who's the most pure "Conservative" and they'll kill each other off pretty quickly.
They are too emotionally retarded to ever admit they do anything wrong and that any of their problems are of their own making.
Everything wrong in their lives is always someone else fault. They always need a target.
When there are no more liberals, gays, hispanics, etc., left they'll target each other.
Or anyone living.
That's exactly what happened to me in a math class. The problem was fairly complex and I completely forgot how to work it so I just wrote down an answer. I got it exactly right but didn't show any work because I didn't do any.
My instructor gave me 1/2 point out of 4. He never cared about the answer. He cared how you got there. You could get 3.75 out of four and have the answer completely wrong due to a minor math error if you worked the problem properly.
The Rapture is clearly broken. It's supposed to take all the good people and leave the evil people behind yet the Kochs are still here. ???
Because, all the Will Rogers "I am not a member of any organized party — I am a Democrat." jokes aside, the Democrats were largely on the same page in 2009 -- at least as far as the goal of greater coverage, if not the details of how to achieve that goal. And Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid knew who's arms to twist, and what incentives to offer, to get the stragglers on board.
By contrast, the Tea Party wave of 2010 brought in a flood of nominal Republicans... who weren't really Republicans. They were anti-Obamas, and since Obama was a Democrat, and the Republicans were the non-Democrats, they waved the Republican banner by default. The Tea Partiers weren't elected to legislate, they were elected to obstruct.
On top of that, while the establishment Republicans had been around long enough to understand that talking about shrinking the government was good for getting elected but bad for getting things done, the Tea Partiers didn't really care about getting things done -- they believed their own "government is inherently bad" hype.
Thus, you have two vehemently opposed groups who share the Republican party banner out of convenience. They have multiple fundamental differences as to the philosophy of governance, and many of them can't stand each other on a personal basis either. There simply isn't enough overlap in the Venn diagram of "what sane Republicans want for healthcare reform" and "what the Tea Partiers want for healthcare reform".
EDIT: Correction: The overlap is declaring that the ACA is terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad. Which they have voted for literally scores of times when it didn't matter. Now that it does matter, the sane Republicans aren't crazy enough to do any more than that.