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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo, These Were The SAME Republicans Who Thought 25 Days Of Debate On Obamacare Was TOO FAST?
Do you remember McConnell and Boehner whining...ENDLESSLY....CONSTANTLY... that Democrats were "rushing" the ACA "Obamacare" bill through Congress TOO FAST? And that they had to "start again" from a "blank sheet of paper," and "hit the RESET button," and get some bipartisan support...otherwise it was just TYRANNY of the majority.
I remember every single one of those phrases coming out of McConnell's flaccid pie hole.
And they just did the following:
-Wrote a Senate bill overhauling the entire Tax Code without even SHOWING it to most Republican Senators, or ANY Democratic Senators.
-Shoved in a page of amendments from lobbyists at the last minute, which nobody was even allowed to read.
-Passed it out to the Senators TWO HOURS before voting on it...WITH HAND-WRITTEN ADDITIONS in the margins....and then rammed it though, with out ONE SINGLE DEBATE or ONE SINGLE ASSESSMENT of the final draft, while the f-king INK WAS STILL WET.
This would be the story of the century if not for the fact that the country is distracted by half the officials in the Trump Administration getting frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs. I guess that's one way to distract our attention while the robber baron plutocrats are stealing us blind.
Message to the MSM: WHAT EVER THE HELL the Democrats do when they take back Congress and the White House, and start passing their own bills...Republicans will whine about it being 'too fast' or 'too partisan.' Your job is to cover ABSOLUTELY NONE OF THAT, because hypocrisy doesn't count as political debate.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,015 posts)My mantra - I always expect the very worst from them.
And still they "exceed" my expectations and are even WORSE!
DangerousUrNot
(431 posts)They always seem to exceed my expectations. Their party is so far gone.
BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)Greedy Old Hypocrites. My 83 year old dad calls them that.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Republicans gained full control of Washington. The next step would be first,anything with Obama attached would be thrown out. They have to please their Racist Voters. Next would be a combination of Corporate Welfare bills with the Nations Social Support Network destroyed to pay for it. And Finally,a attempt to turn our Country into a Theocratic State much like Utah and Idaho.
Snackshack
(2,541 posts)That left the Supreme Court seat vacant for months...the very same republicans that currently are standing behind what is with out doubt the most unqualified person ever to be president who is currently under investigation for colluding with a foreign government.
Republicans do not care about democracy or America anymore. It is all about power and getting rid of the pesky social programs that FDR started and were expanded on after him. If Republicans thought they could get away with dumping the form of government we have had since the 1770s and make the US a dictatorship they would with out blinking. Publicly they wrap themselves in the flag and patriotism and freedom but privately they only care about absolute power.
a kennedy
(29,675 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)DFW
(54,412 posts)If reliable polls come out that show the Republicans losing their Congressional majorities next year and decisively so, they would impeach Trump for felony jaywalking or littering. If not, he could indeed murder someone on Fifth Avenue on live TV at noon, and they wouldn't lift a finger.
DFW
(54,412 posts)Would consider Thomas Jefferson subversive and Joe McCarthy a hero.
They would disdain Marcus Aurelius and swoon over Caligula.