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Republican Senator Tom Cotton (!) Shits All Over Trumpcare (Original Post)
March 4th
Mar 2017
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elleng
(141,926 posts)1. Good to hear it, and SHOCKING! COTTON!
Warpy
(114,507 posts)2. The only reason he strayed off the reservation
is that enough braver souls have already done so to render it much safer.
IOW, it's getting harder to find anyone but Ryan and the Koch boys who support this stinker.
gordianot
(15,757 posts)3. We will see many more instances of Republican rebellion.
Why you may ask? Trump does not know how to spread the money and Republicans are used to being reimbursed, they are so needy.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)4. Cuz his constituents shit all over him.
Keep up the resistance! The town hall resistance worked!
LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)5. Wow, just WOW!!!
Tom Cotton, really? Well, ironically, he makes a lot of sense on this one.
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)6. It's DonTcare. Whatever Trump signs it's Don'Tcare. . . . nt
bucolic_frolic
(54,530 posts)7. He said 'Obamacare regulation caused health care cost increases'
It's always regulation in their minds. Jake Tapper is so smart. 'What is to
prevent health care companies from jacking up prices?' Because that is
what you get. And Cotton had no answers, just vague broad themes
centered around deregulation.
malthaussen
(18,482 posts)8. One gets the feeling that the constituents are restless. n/t
