'Over the past few days, I have had to abandon one of my most deeply held political beliefs:

[elleng]

that the reservoir of deceit, mutilated history, mutant arguments, threadbare metaphors, and pure unadulterated Grade-A American bullshit that conservatives can call upon in pursuit of their political goals is fathomless. Over the past few days, as all hands attempted to sell to the country and to their colleagues the planet-sized lemon that is the so-called Cassidy-Graham healthcare plan, I noticed that these folks had become so exhausted by the effort that they simply don’t have the energy even to lie well about it any more. The mask has dropped.

What we are hearing now from a number of people is the open admission that the goal of the Republican Party, a death-cult based on human suffering, is to strip healthcare from those people who do not vote for them, and from people the conservative mind has adjudged are unworthy of its benefits. Many of these arguments are toweringly stupid, as we shall see. But at least it’s out in the open now.

Take, for example, Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming. He went on TV with Katy Tur on Tuesday and let his personal kitty go screeching out of the burlap.

Or take, for example, Stephen Moore, one of the true nuisances in our political life, and a guy so dedicated to demonstrably bad economic theory that he one day likely will be buried in Arthur Laffer’s backyard, who is determined not to understand the simple facts of how any kind of insurance works. From CNN:'>>>

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a12437539/republicans-healthcare-suffer/

[BigmanPigman]

1. The problem is that you and others who think rationally are outnumbered by

the willfully ignorant and plain greedy asses who will always support them.

[Hortensis]

6. Both the Tea Party and Rump were profoundly incompetent rebellions against them.

The first was controlled from the beginning by those rebelled against and the second heavily infiltrated, if not entirely controlled, from the beginning by those rebelled against.

These are the people who can be fooled all the time, and they, and of course all the other conservatives who collaborate with them, are the problem, but it's not because they want to be screwed over and they finally became aware that was happening some time ago.

The vast majority of trumpsters are "don't touch my Social Security" and "I want my vacation pay back" people. They passionately want the name of the ACA changed so they can pretend they repealed it, and they want what they're told are "Obamacare's sky-high premiums" lowered and coverages made even bigger by Republican "replacers," but that's all.

[msongs]

2. for repubs its all about erasing obama from the history books nt

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

3. Yup, plain as day. I'd say "shame on them," but, they are truly without shame.

[world wide wally]

4. If all we ever have left of Obama is our memories....

They will have to eliminate that too

[Hortensis]

5. Boy, my tendency to run-on sentences has nothing on his.

And he actually gets them past their editors. Who woulda thought?

But disagree with his conclusion. This is the anti-government/anti-taxation extremism that's taken over most of the Republican leadership playing out. Sure, some of them do also want most of us unneeded, unworthy little people to eventually die off, but that's only part of their ultimate vision for America. Right now they're just focused on destroying "parasitic"government programs.