Anonymous wrote:70 million to over 100 million are estimated to be negatively impacted by this bill. A third of Americans will suffer. That’s your Republican government working for the little guy. I will never understand why the middle to lower income vote for republicans.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Susan Collins proposed an amendment for higher taxes on the wealthy to fund rural hospitals. Democrats voted no.
Why should rural hospitals get a bailout while the ones most of the country uses get screwed?
No hospitals should get screwed. But would you travel 400 miles to go to a hospital? You'd be dead or need pricy helicopter transport. We need rural hospitals but we also need health care reform and a universal system.
And democrats voted against the bill that’s going to screw all hospitals in this country. Rural hospitals shouldn’t get a special deal, particularly when the people who use those hospitals voted for the people screwing them over.
Anonymous wrote:70 million to over 100 million are estimated to be negatively impacted by this bill. A third of Americans will suffer. That’s your Republican government working for the little guy. I will never understand why the middle to lower income vote for republicans.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I saw an interesting point on this last evening. The person said that the GOP knows internally that a blue wave is coming in 2026, so delaying the massive cuts to happen until after that point will help the GOP because Dems will be in power when they go into effect and the GOP can stand back and say, "Look what the Dems did! We had things perfect and they effed it up again!" That will ensure public anger with the Dems and props up the GOP to win the 2028 Presidential election.
I thought that was an interesting take and one I can totally see happening. There have been stories that have come out about how worried the GOP is internally with how the public is turning on Trump, including many of his voters. They were already worried about midterms and that's one of the reasons why they stopped doing town halls as well.
Not a chance of this happening. The egregious actions inflicted by this administration will not be forgotten. Everything prior to this bill and what’s to come will result in a midterm bloodbath.
The house still has procedural and substantive power to disrupt the bastardized bill. They could reject the Senate's version and demand further changes. They can obstruct legislation, demand recorded votes on procedural motions and amendments, toss in some irrelevant amendments, and delay conference committees. They should disrupt and delay!
Trump threatening Senate and House Rep seats is such an amateurish play. Double down on TACO.
You put far too much faith in the intelligence of your fellow man.
Do you know how many people I've corrected about the pandemic & who was in power when it started? It wasn't even that long ago and tons of these MAGA dumb-dumbs have already forgotten that Trump was president in 2019, ALL of 2020, and until Jan 20, 2021.
"when Biden shut our schools down..."
Biden didn't do that. That was ordered and done under Trump.
Anonymous wrote:I saw an interesting point on this last evening. The person said that the GOP knows internally that a blue wave is coming in 2026, so delaying the massive cuts to happen until after that point will help the GOP because Dems will be in power when they go into effect and the GOP can stand back and say, "Look what the Dems did! We had things perfect and they effed it up again!" That will ensure public anger with the Dems and props up the GOP to win the 2028 Presidential election.
I thought that was an interesting take and one I can totally see happening. There have been stories that have come out about how worried the GOP is internally with how the public is turning on Trump, including many of his voters. They were already worried about midterms and that's one of the reasons why they stopped doing town halls as well.
Not a chance of this happening. The egregious actions inflicted by this administration will not be forgotten. Everything prior to this bill and what’s to come will result in a midterm bloodbath.
The house still has procedural and substantive power to disrupt the bastardized bill. They could reject the Senate's version and demand further changes. They can obstruct legislation, demand recorded votes on procedural motions and amendments, toss in some irrelevant amendments, and delay conference committees. They should disrupt and delay!
Trump threatening Senate and House Rep seats is such an amateurish play. Double down on TACO.
Anonymous wrote:There it is - this bill is really about giving ice a new big blank check. This is not just about illegal inmigrants.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/30/opinion/thepoint?smid=url-share
“Everything else — the CBO score, the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy — is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions,” he continued.
Anonymous wrote:Saw a quick hallway interview with Murkowski on the news last night. She sounded as dumb as we always knew she was. How does she keep getting elected?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Saw a quick hallway interview with Murkowski on the news last night. She sounded as dumb as we always knew she was. How does she keep getting elected?
She talks big and then votes party lines. She’s a nepo senator.
Dems vote party lines. Reps vote party lines. She's normal, not bad or evil.
The ones who don't vote party lines, they're the ones who are hated by everyone in both parties.
And politicians used to work together to solve problems before the age of social media and opinion news.
+1
This is the problem, not Murkowski. (Or Tillis or Hawley or or or).
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Susan Collins proposed an amendment for higher taxes on the wealthy to fund rural hospitals. Democrats voted no.
Why should rural hospitals get a bailout while the ones most of the country uses get screwed?
No hospitals should get screwed. But would you travel 400 miles to go to a hospital? You'd be dead or need pricy helicopter transport. We need rural hospitals but we also need health care reform and a universal system.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Susan Collins proposed an amendment for higher taxes on the wealthy to fund rural hospitals. Democrats voted no.
Why should rural hospitals get a bailout while the ones most of the country uses get screwed?