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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMichael C. Burgess (R-TX): "It will be worth it" if TrumpCare "claims my congressional career"
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/republicans-are-counting-on-democrats-to-step-in-and-help-repair-gop-health-care-disaster-ny-times/
If you ask someone to give up something, there will be resentment, Rep. Michael C. Burgess (R-TX), chairman of the Energy and Commerce subcommittee on health, told the Times. If that claims my congressional career, so be it. It will be worth it to me to have effected this change.
Regardless of warnings from experts that millions could lose coverage, Republicans are pressing forward with the belief that Democrats will one day help fix the mess they created, the paper said.
Ultimately, Republicans are counting on Democrats to step in and help repair what even Republicans anticipate as upheaval if a repeal measure is passed without a broad remake of American health care, the Times noted. Republican leaders have made no effort to hide the strategy.
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Michael C. Burgess (R-TX): "It will be worth it" if TrumpCare "claims my congressional career" (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Mar 2017
OP
Hopefully the AHCA will indeed cost him his Congressional career along with a few dozen of his peers
LonePirate
Mar 2017
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MineralMan
(146,308 posts)1. We'll see what we can do to hurry that along, there, Burgess.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)9. Yes, let's hope his voters hold him to it.
dalton99a
(81,488 posts)2. Another caring physician from the GOP.
LonePirate
(13,424 posts)3. Hopefully the AHCA will indeed cost him his Congressional career along with a few dozen of his peers
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)6. I hope the jelly donuts this cretin has been stuffing down his gullet costs him even more.
kacekwl
(7,017 posts)4. Then he can run to the nearest lobbying group
from big pharmaceutical or the insurance lobby. Fuckstick.
Initech
(100,076 posts)5. YOU GUYS CREATED THIS MESS, NOT US, YOU SLEAZY MOTHERFUCKERS!!!
Obama wanted full single payer, it was the god damn fucking republicans who created the ACA and blamed Obama for it. Oh, Mr. Burgess, your career will get claimed. Just wait for the next election cycle.
GWC58
(2,678 posts)7. It'll be 2010,
only in reverse! Come on 2018!!😡 My message to the Rethugs! 🖕🏻 Have a nice day, ASSHOLES!!
dawg
(10,624 posts)8. It's like they value their service based on how many lives they can ruin.
The GOP has become like some kind of cult.
Only there aren't any pretty girls in robes, or bearded guys with acoustic guitars.