How Democrats Can Avoid Blowing Their Best Chance To Take The House In A Decade

[DonViejo]

@LOLGOP

How Democrats Can Avoid Blowing Their Best Chance To Take The House In A Decade

May 8, 2017 7:00 am

If Republicans didn’t think the bill that 216 GOP House Members backed on Thursday could cost them the House, they wouldn’t keep lying about it.

A giant tax break for the rich and their corporations that guts our health care system — by creating massive costs for aging people and massive doubt for those with pre-existing conditions, while carving a $839 million hole in Medicaid so it will end up covering 14 million fewer Americans by 2026 — is so offensive to basic decency that analysts now see the GOP majority is at risk.

Not as much risk as Trumpcare would inflict on families with sick kids, but some risk nonetheless.

Already liberal groups including Daily Kos and SwingLeft have used the GOP’s vote to raise millions in just days from small donors to support Democratic nominees who will oppose vulnerable Republicans. And those Republicans are so scared that only a very few of them are holding town halls or even defending their votes in public. And the ones who are doing it, just keep lying.

Republicans should pay for this vote to unsinsure tens of millions at least as much as Democrats did for insuring 20 million, but Republican strategist Rick Wilson doubts they will.

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[dalton99a]

1. This is a must read

[Scoopster]

2. Policy doc?

I've been thinking the Dems need a high-profile policy document, kinda like the GOP's old Contract with America. Stick to economic, smart govt and works-related stuff - job creation via infrastructure upgrades, tweaks to improve (NOT REPLACE) the ACA possibly including a single-payer option, and our own sensible version of tax reforms. I don't think it'd hurt to also include a bill requiring the Executive Branch to adhere to both proper staffing levels in its agencies and requiring that any actions taken by such agencies do not work in contradiction to the reason those agencies exist.

[BlueCaliDem]

3. Democrats and those more to the left MUST unite, or we can say bye-bye to progress in

this country, leaving the RWers, racists, WWC to decide the trajectory of our country's policies - which means NOTHING GOOD for any of us who are not a member of the upper echelons.

Democrats and all those who are on the left side of the political spectrum MUST unite to help people get registered. Use funds to do this first and foremost, especially in States where Repukes reign supreme. Voter suppression laws are killing us at the ballot box and destroying our country.

We have two choices, and two alone.

Either we capitulate to RW dogma and bend our heads to them - OR - we STOP infighting and get busy helping people get their IDs and get registered to vote a.s.a.p.

Unfortunately, since the John Roberts' Court gutted the VRA, these are our only choices.

[still_one]

4. In one breath he says Democrats need to speak with one voice, and in the next

“If the Dems weren’t a joke party they could blow out 40 seats on this issue,” he tweeted on Thursday. “But they’ll campaign on abortion, gun control, and bathrooms.”

In other words, what he is saying, is if the Democrats didn't focus on civil rights, they would be fine.

I wouldn't expect anything less from a republican strategist.

When Fareed Zakaria a few weeks ago made the comment, "today trump became president", in response to trump's bombing of the Syrian airbase, as though the act of bombing makes someone "presidential", WTF is going on?

Ever since the republican party embraced the Southern Strategy, and the election of trump, along with the republican party walking in lock step by their blind support of his appointments, the republican party is morally and ethically bankrupt.

Where Wilson is miscalculating though, he is assuming that the Democratic party won't stay on message regarding how the republicans are taking away people's healthcare, while in fact, on this issue alone the Democrats have NEVER been more united.

I would even go one step further. If there was any ambiguity what trump and the republicans would do, there is no doubt now, and one way or another, the 2018 election is going to be a referendum on that.