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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How was it you thought it was going to go? The republicans were going to suddenly wake up, smack their heads and say “yes, you all were right! Of,course we will fix healthcare today!”. This is the Senate, where most of the Republicans already know what the President and administration are, and they never ever do anything about it. They know. They vote for these nominees. They can hold the line until 2026. At some point, this was going to have to stop. I don’t think the optics are as bad for the democrats as some of you are screaming about. It was bad back in the spring where they went down without a fight. This time they didn’t rubber stamp it and let the other side show their true colors to the electorate and some of the people actually felt the pain and couldn’t be accused of fearmongering. But the idea that enough republicans were going to crack is delusional. [/quote]

Yep. People who are saying they should have held the line are probably not the same people who don’t know where their next meal will come from. They aren’t federal workers who are low enough on the pay scale to not have savings to fall back on. They are not the people who have critical travel coming up (sick relatives, medical care, work).

These things would only be leverage if Rs gave a rat’s a*s about these people. Clearly, they don’t.

The fact that Rs don’t even seem concerned with making enough voters happy enough to secure their own re-election is concerning. In the last few weeks of the presidential campaign, there seemed to be a shift. Trump gave up any facade of wanting to win people over. He stood behind the podium and rambled incessantly about whatever came to mind. Rs in congress are doing the same, just not as blatantly. They began “campaigning” to Trump rather than their constituents. I truly believe this marked the point where they knew they could rig whatever elections they wanted, voters be damned. [/quote]

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