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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNate Silver suggests the GOP strategy on the health care vote
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-health-care-bill-could-be-a-job-killer-for-gop-incumbents/
I suspect this is exactly what the GOP is planning. Give the far right a meaningless victory today, let the senate kill Trumpcare in the middle of summer when no one is paying attention, and hope that by election day 2018 everyone has forgotten about today's vote
lapfog_1
(29,223 posts)They plan to tinker with it... just enough to "fix" it and then pass it.
They can't pass tax reform unless they pass this huge tax cut first.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)Taxcut is their number one priority.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Historic NY
(37,453 posts)on the TV and the air waves. One thing Republicans do is purchase cheap air time on the radio and play ads until your want to throw the radio....Democrats need to follow suit. Every congressional race should be hit with a deluge.
BannonsLiver
(16,448 posts)And if some left leaning organization or wealthy benefactor wants to start an operation that spreads fake news on Facebook targeting the GOP I'll be the first to look the other way. We've entered win at all costs territory. Within the law, of course.
okieinpain
(9,397 posts)Bettie
(16,124 posts)we need every one of our talking heads to hammer this point, to mention it every time they get in front of a camera from now until the end of fucking time.
Yeah, there will be more horrors, but we need to use the talking points all day every day, until it becomes set in the minds of even the dumbest right winger that Republicans want them DEAD.
MFM008
(19,818 posts)one day their smugness will reep its reward.
Grammy23
(5,813 posts)They left too much evidence around with their congratulatory selfies posted here, there and yonder. The press did its job by kindly recording every moment so there is a record complete with sound of who said and did what today. They will get to re-live May 4, 2017 over and over like Ground Hog Day. I hope they enjoyed it because it is not going away.
Mme. Defarge
(8,042 posts)It could be one of those moments when people will remember exactly where they were and what they were doing the moment they heard the news.
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)But, I guess with the GOP in total power, ugly things will be happening for months on end.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)They care about us.
Cha
(297,655 posts)celebrate with beer needs to be hung around their necks.
Azathoth
(4,611 posts)The same "very serious people" on both sides of the aisle -- Dem and GOP -- are treating this as if it's already dead. It isn't. And any Republican who thinks this will all blow over by 2018 because three or four GOP "moderates" in the Senate are going to stand on principle is deluding himself. The Senate will pass a bill, one that will be much closer to the House bill than any "serious observer" realizes. The GOP has made spitting on Obama's achievements, especially the ACA, the cornerstone of their party platform. They've committed themselves to this the same way Hitler committed Germany to the war. The ships have been burned and there's no turning back.
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)It is called Trump.
Trump won't let it die. Period. He is a fighter and a winner. That is his only game due to his ego. If it is dying in the Senate Trump will be tweeting his orange turd fingers off every day about it keeping it top of mind.
tblue37
(65,487 posts)Senate to save them from their own self-inflicted damage. They want to pass some legislation--ANY legislation--so they can claim to have kept their promise on Obamacare. And Cheato is seriously badgering them to get something passed so he can add it to his list of "accomplishments."
But most House members absolutely do NOT want that bill to land on Cheato's desk to be signed, so they are counting on its being killed in the Senate.
If it does end up getting to Trump to be signed, they will be as freaked out as Trump was when he actually got stuck with being president.
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)No Republican does
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)reason they can't govern, if there is no money to be made.