Today's Trumpcare hullabaloo perfectly encapsulates the fundamental incompetency and corruption of the Republican Party. These people do not know how to govern. No clue.
After spending 7 years complaining (falsely!) that Democrats crafted the ACA with zero Republican input and "shoved it down our throats" without any consideration of what was in the bill (a year and a half of debate and negotiation wasn't enough), they turn around and try to rush this thing through without that slightest attempt to reach across the aisle or honestly gauge how this might affect the healthcare system and our economy in general.
The mental patient wing of the GOP can't be convinced to support this Needless Death Bill because... the proposed legislation doesn't make poor people miserable enough. President Deal Maker (who, I guarantee, has absolutely no idea what's in this bill and just wants something he supports to pass) has resorted to intimidation tactics and Conservative pay masters like the Koch Brothers have responded by openly offering to give millions to the campaign of every Republican politician who does their bidding instead.
This is all over a bill that has no real policy objective (other than giving more money to the wealthy). By any reasonable metric, it will make our healthcare system worse and result in thousands of people acquiring preventable illnesses and dying preventable deaths. MAGA!!
http://crooksandliars.com/cltv/2017/03/trumps-campaign-promise-obamacare#start=a9WyW5Xx
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