Roger Marshall (R-KS): "If Democrats want to fund the government, then we're happy to sit down and fix the ACA."

[Miles Archer]

This is the new Republican "unified stance" on the shutdown, the result of pressure from Trump.

"If Dems sign our poison pill bill, we'll BE FUCKIN' DELIGHTED to sit down and fix those pesky little ObamaCare credits."

And, I think we ALL know that Lucy needs to sit there with that football, and we CANNOT kick it, because Republicans CAN'T BE TRUSTED. PERIOD.

In a show of GOP unity, Trump hosted Senate Republicans in the White House Rose Garden Tuesday, but the goal didn’t seem to be to re-open the government. If anything, it seemed to be to keep congressional Republicans from working across the aisle to re-open the federal government.

“The whole purpose of lunch [at the White House] is to keep all the team together, to make sure that we don't have any weak links,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) told reporters at the Capitol.

"Whenever the Democrats want to fund the government, then we're happy to sit down and fix the ACA.”

Democrats aren’t buying that, especially as open enrollment signup — and the sticker shock expected to hit tens of millions of Americans — starts Nov. 1.

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/government-shutdown-2674220513/

[Blues Heron]

1. Trust us! Said the party that protects pedophiles. Yeah, no

[Happy Hoosier]

2. By "Fix," He means gut.

Deal first.

[Miles Archer]

3. In Trump's first term, Joni Ernst said Republicans needed to go behind closed doors and "fix" Social Security

She wanted to be 100% away from media scrutiny.

This also was a case of "fix" = "gut."

Ernst Admits “All” Republicans See Social Security, Medicare as “Out-of-Control” Spending After Backing Massive Corporate Tax Giveaway

February 13, 2020

https://www.dscc.org/news/ernst-admits-all-republicans-see-social-security-medicare-as-out-of-control-spending-after-backing-massive-corporate-tax-giveaway/

A new report from Iowa Starting Line reveals that after voting for a corporate tax giveaway that added $2 trillion to the national debt, Senator Joni Ernst is blaming earned benefits like Social Security and Medicare for “out of control” spending, and went on to admit “all” Republicans agree.

Last year, Senator Ernst was caught advocating that lawmakers discuss their plans to cut Social Security “behind closed doors so we’re not being scrutinized.” Now, it appears she did exactly that — using a closed-door fundraiser to confirm her commitment to cutting the benefits Iowans rely on.

ICYMI: Ernst Would Rather Continue Her Efforts to Gut Social Security “Behind Closed Doors So We’re Not Being Scrutinized”

https://www.dscc.org/news/icymi-ernst-would-rather-continue-her-efforts-to-gut-social-security-behind-closed-doors-so-were-not-being-scrutinized/

September 6, 2019

Vulnerable Senator Joni Ernst was recently caught on tape telling constituents in Iowa she’d like to keep her attempts to gut Social Security “behind closed doors so we’re not being scrutinized” (which is not something you say if you can defend the plan you’re pushing) — and widespread news coverage of her comments has followed.

Senator Ernst has not only “talked about privatizing Social Security” since at least 2014, she’s also introduced her own toxic proposal that “smashes open” the Social Security lockbox and “could take a sizable cut out of older Americans’ retirement payments” by asking workers to borrow against their own retirement in order to take paid family leave. The DSCC has consistently held Ernst accountable for her toxic record of threatening Social Security and siding with corporate special interests over hardworking Iowans.

[Johonny]

4. Meanwhile theyre tearing down the Whitehouse

To make a bowling alley.

[Volaris]

6. If it were up to me, it would be a homeless shelter/soup kitchen/methodone clinic.

THEN MAYBE trump can leave his name on the front of the building.

[Walleye]

5. Reminds me of an old novelty song,"Straighten up and Fly Right"

The line goes something like: The monkey looked the buzzard straight in the eye, and said your story is so sweet, but it sounds just like a lie

[DFW]

7. Just like Trump is "fixing" the White House."

With a wrecking ball and intentions of mass destruction.

But the nearer his “celebration,” the more he’s slip-sliding away.

[Emile]

8. Democrats have been saying that all along. Reinstate

the TAX CUTS for the ACA and they'll be willing to fund the government.

[Miles Archer]

10. And Johnson keeps referring to his "CLEAN BIPARTISAN BILL"...

...he is LITERALLY IGNORING the cuts to Medicaid and the ObamaCare Tax Credits, as if they don't exist, or...more likely...because they are irrelevant to him, and he's been an advocate for "work requirements" as a prerequisite.

[Emile]

13. Democrats need to pound the fact Republicans are against a tax cut

that help someone other than billionaires.

[superpatriotman]

9. As Admiral Akbar said:

“It’s a trap!”

[Autumn]

11. Fix the ACA first fuck face. Trust a Republican ?

Fuck that.

[Hotler]

12. 13 dem senators trusted them the other day to confirm orange judges.