Andy Slavitt (formerly ran Medicare/ACA for Obama) on why tonight's 43-57 vote is *NOT* good news...

[CousinIT]

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[flamingdem]

1. Slavitt has the inside track

Thanks for posting this.

When he's disturbed we know it's bad, bad news.

My intuition tells me that as a party they know they need a win.

Their donors will otherwise abandon them. They want their tax cuts.

So anyone weak enough to vote yes today will vote yes with incentives.

[Gabi Hayes]

3. Somebody here here brought up this last second bait and switch

about a month or so ago

It was fairly thoroughly discussed

[flamingdem]

13. They'll do it

and force it through with some changes that give cover.

Or, they'll create confusion. No one will really know what it means until it's too late

[Gabi Hayes]

14. That's been their plan all along. The very idea

that the republicultists have had any interest for any socially responsible programs EVER is the sickest joke I've heard since the one about a deranged conman seizing the reins of the most powerful nation in history

Oops!

[BigmanPigman]

2. OH SHIT! Fuck McConnell! Double fuck the GOP!

[still_one]

4. With the republicans controlling the WH, Senate, and House, there is absolutely no reason

that everything is going to be alright

I am not sure what people were thinking on November 8, but it most likely will take decades to recover from this.

Everything from Civil Rights, Women's Rights, workers rights, environmental rights, social security, Medicare, healthcare, etc, are going to be fought all over again

Elections have consequences

[bdtrppr6]

7. "DECADES"

[CousinIT]

10. I'll be dead before the US is decent ever again. n/t

[still_one]

11. A lot of us will be in that same boat

[SHRED]

5. Thanks McCain...

...you POS liar.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

6. McCain had better vote no.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-mccain-donald-trump-senate-health-care_us_5977e2bae4b0a8a40e8399df?tml

Howard Feineman nails him.

[still_one]

8. immediately after he voted to open it up for debate a couple of hours later mccain voted yes on the

first version to repeal and replace the ACA. This is the one that mccain said he wouldn't support in its current form. He lied, and voted yes on it. It lost, but there should be no doubt that mccain is a maverick is a myth. All his political life he played the media and the America like a fiddle. His voting record speaks for itself, a hard right winger What you see is the real john mccain unmasked

[obamanut2012]

9. No kidding -- which is why I started my Fuck McCain thread

[nikibatts]

12. And remember, McCain made it all possible. And I tweeted and wrote him just that.