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mobeau69

(12,302 posts) Tue Jan 3, 2017, 09:44 PM Jan 2017

KGOP is about to OWN health care. [View all]

Austan Goolsbees remarks regarding Obamacare repeal tonight on AC 360 (paraphrased):

As soon as the KGOP repeals it, changes it or replaces it they are going to OWN it.

Then increases in costs, currently at their lowest levels of increase in the last 50 years, are going to continue to rise and will likely rise even faster.

Any additional costs and other problems will be immediately felt by the voters and squarely laid at the KGOP doorstep.

It's easy to take it away but it will be hard to replace it and replacing it will be expensive.

In short, they are the proverbial dog that caught the bus.

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KGOP is about to OWN health care. [View all] mobeau69 Jan 2017 OP

since when have they ever OWNED anything? Skittles Jan 2017 #1

The miners in WV that fell for the cons BS but mobeau69 Jan 2017 #6

THEY WILL STILL VOTE REPUKE Skittles Jan 2017 #14

Exactly. The news is always he said she said. It's never wow the republicans f'd up mucifer Jan 2017 #11

Thank you for calling them the KGOP, never let their treason go... every statement and post should uponit7771 Jan 2017 #2

He's prolly right generally but elleng Jan 2017 #3

Point's still the same though. mobeau69 Jan 2017 #4

Yes, they break it, elleng Jan 2017 #7

Yea about that.... CousinIT Jan 2017 #16

KGOP is good !! I like it. pangaia Jan 2017 #5

Not if Schumer (and Sanders) have anything to say about it, elleng Jan 2017 #8

Good!! Bernie I certainly trust.. Schumer, he is one of my senators pangaia Jan 2017 #9

I've not liked Schumer in the past, elleng Jan 2017 #10

Two Guys From Brooklyn. I like the ring of it. pangaia Jan 2017 #15

I was born in Manhattan, elleng Jan 2017 #18

I actually went to Ebbets Field!! I'm that old. Lol pangaia Jan 2017 #23

I'm that old too, but elleng Jan 2017 #24

I was actually a Yankee fan...ssshhhhh.. pangaia Jan 2017 #26

OH NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! elleng Jan 2017 #28

Swear to god. pangaia Jan 2017 #29

YES/ STOP! elleng Jan 2017 #31

METS FOREVER!!!! pangaia Jan 2017 #32

HAPPY to hear that! elleng Jan 2017 #35

I went to 2 games in 2015. pangaia Jan 2017 #36

Skipped many years elleng Jan 2017 #38

If the press spins it pro trump and blames President Obama people will be confused mucifer Jan 2017 #12

What can they blame Obama for? mobeau69 Jan 2017 #13

They can spin it as Obamacare was never any good to begin with. It kind of is all over the press mucifer Jan 2017 #20

The press can say whatever it/they want. elleng Jan 2017 #25

BINGO mobeau69 Jan 2017 #37

Right. They've got to try to do SOMETHING, elleng Jan 2017 #39

When "repeal" morphed into "repeal and REPLACE" they boxed themselves in. mobeau69 Jan 2017 #41

They don't care about planning to triple the deficit either flamingdem Jan 2017 #17

They don't care hibbing Jan 2017 #19

I've said ir before edhopper Jan 2017 #21

They have no intention of replacing it. roamer65 Jan 2017 #22

I expect to see them mess with it so that it isn't functional any more. davsand Jan 2017 #27

There going to have to vote on repeal one way or the other. mobeau69 Jan 2017 #33

Meanwhile we're being harvested like Hogs in a pen. They vacuum up our savings and our retirement Ford_Prefect Jan 2017 #30

Which is why they are planning to repeal but delay the date of its taking effect, pnwmom Jan 2017 #34

Any delay will wreak havoc on the system right away. mobeau69 Jan 2017 #40