We Are Going To Have To Shut Down GOP On ACA Replacement.

[TheMastersNemesis]

We are going to have to shut down GOP town halls on THEIR health care destruction plan. We are going to have to get really nasty and revolt. THESE BASTARDS ARE NOT LISTENING. RYAN NEEDS TO BE CHALLENGED EVERYWHERE THAT LIAR GOES.

[Hortensis]

1. Respectfully suggest NOT "shutting down" town halls

but instead courteously and firmly filling them with people expressing their unwillingness to lose the ACA--in a nonpartisan manner. Use and fill the time with this subject, and others of concern.

Many conservatives are very much on the same side as us, whether they want to admit that reality or not, but hostile, aggressive behavior will only turn them on us, instead of on the bastards they elected to office.

[MichMary]

5. It didn't work for the Tea Baggers. n/t

[90-percent]

2. RESIST!

n/t

-90%

[Motown_Johnny]

3. From the little I saw from Ryan today...

He seems to be saying that they will pass legislation concerning the ACA sometime this year and then it will take time to implament the changes.

Looks to me like they want to try and delay any actual change until after the 2018 elections. That way they can run on having changed the law but not own the damage it will do until the 2020 cycle.

[bigbrother05]

4. Think you are right on the mark

They want all the credit without the work or risk of actually doing anything. They will paint themselves as being active and engaged after 8 years of nothing under Obama and hope the voters don't remember that they were the ones that were the "do nothings".

[Wounded Bear]

6. That appears to be the strategy for now...

But I'm all for going to their town halls and giving them some of their own medicine.

I've seen some really hopeful signs and reports about Repub reps getting an earful from protestors about the ACA. Hopefully this continues. I think there are at least 2-3 red districts in my blue state that could be flipped over this. Gotta be a lot more out there that are finally waking up to the real Repub agenda.

[Cracklin Charlie]

7. Do not quit on this issue!

We must not let up...too many lives are at stake!

[Wounded Bear]

8. David Frum had some good advice...

(I know, David Frum ) He was on one of the talk shows on MSNBC and made the suggestion to keep it simple.

He's right. We need to really focus on one or two issues that really touch people's lives in a personal way and hammer Repubs on it for the next two years.

This is exactly that type of issue. Get the RW voters out there thinking. How long have the Repubs been trying to end Obamacare, and do you really want to give up what you've gained for another empty promise? They've had six years to plan for this, where is their real plan?

ACA affects a LOT more than just poor people on the exchanges. It affects my VA coverage, it affects Medicare and Medicaid, and it even affects "normal" insurance policies of people who don't think it matters to them, but it will cause changes in their policies, including employer provided policies.

[flamingdem]

9. I hope peopel get out there for ACA as they have for the Ban

We know it doesn't effect everyone but for those it does -- matters of health, life and death.

The problem is that health insurance is a dry subject to many and the majority of Americans have not had to think about it - they get insurance through work.

Somehow we have to make this a spectacular issue that presses the GOP to not destroy it.

What people don't get is that they're going to destroy it BY DOING NOTHING.

The big insurers like Anthem will pull out and that is the end.