HelenaHandbag
Shoots back
- Nov 20, 2013
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If republicans had so much input, how does it happen that the bill got no republican votes, and indeed took massive arm twisting and outright bribery from Pelosi and Reid to muster the democrat votes?Tough bounce.The problem with the Democrats is they suffer from the following illogic:
1. We must do something.
2. This is something.
3. We must do this.
Health care costs in America were outpacing inflation for decades. Something certainly needed to be done.
Our country was fucked in this situation because on one hand, we had a party that did absolutely NOTHING about the problem. That would be the GOP.
On the other hand, we had a party that enacted a government takeover of health care. That would be the Democrats.
Now the party which chose to do nothing is whining about the other party for at least trying to do something.
The Democrats telegraphed over and over and over what they would do if they ever go the chance, and still the GOP did nothing when it had all the power and opportunity to do so. It chose instead to start a couple wars, double the national debt, enact tax cuts, and create a massive new Cabinet level State Security agency. Sieg Heil! But, gee, they just couldn't manage to address the health care crisis, at all.
We got fucked up the ass by BOTH parties. Don't ever kid yourself one of them is the good guy on this issue.
The democrats passed that steaming heap on a pure party line vote, locking out any and all republican input or modification. They own it.
That they stole a crappy idea from the republicans and made it their own barely charts on the relevancy meter.
They broke it, they bought it.
Oh bullshit.
Not only did they "steal" it, it was REPUBLICANS that had a shit fit when Obama originally wanted to go single payer. It was REPUBLICANS that rammed it on Democrats. Then! It went to committee. Then! They refused to LET IT OUT OF COMMITTEE.
So seriously..if you are going to talk about this..at least get the facts right.
I know, it's because the president is black, right?