Republicans celebrate but we'll all pay for the way they jammed the Trumpcare atrocity through

[workinclasszero]

A grotesque failure of leadership: Republicans celebrate — but we’ll all pay for the way they jammed the Trumpcare atrocity through the House
Republicans didn't want to know what was in this godawful bill — and can only hope the rest of us don't either
Gary Legum Friday, May 5, 2017 11:00 AM CST

After they had voted Wednesday to screw tens of millions of Americans out of the health care and financial protections granted them by the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, House Republicans marched over to the White House for a Rose Garden press conference. There they verbally fellated each other for the bravery they had just shown. “Leadership” was the watchword of the day.

As many as 24 million fewer people with health insurance. An $880 billion cut to Medicaid, which provides healthcare coverage to roughly one out of every five Americans. (And would cover more if not for the 19 states that have turned down Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion.) The defunding of Planned Parenthood. Cuts to treatment for addiction, for nursing home costs, for special education students. The return of insurance companies denying coverage for pre-existing conditions. The list of those pre-existing conditions. And on and on and on.

There is also a tax cut for the wealthiest two percent of Americans totaling just shy of $1 trillion. This cut was really the driving motivation for passing this repeal. Republicans may ideologically oppose higher taxes in general, but they especially oppose spending those revenues on the general welfare of the larger public.

The GOP has collectively dissembled when confronted with these effects, when not turning off their phones and refusing to hear from constituents.

http://www.salon.com/2017/05/05/a-grotesque-failure-of-leadership-republicans-celebrate-but-well-all-pay-for-the-way-they-jammed-the-trumpcare-atrocity-through-the-house/

[Sculpin Beauregard]

1. No. Hold the cold rage close and obliterate their party, one by one.

[Ohioblue22]

2. not voting for the party nom has consequences

hopefully 2018 will be different

[workinclasszero]

3. You are right

Life and death consequences.

[Hoyt]

4. I doubt most GOPer voters will view this as a negative.