Posted on 07/13/2017 5:40:18 PM PDT by Still Thinking
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and the GOP leadership are scrambling this week to corral 50 out of 52 Republican votes for an historically unpopular health-care bill. Why did so many House Republicans already vote for a bill that large majorities in every state detest? And why are their Senate colleagues considering walking the same plank, given the electoral risk?
In our book, “Representing Red and Blue: How the Culture Wars Change the Way Citizens Speak and Politicians Listen,” we find that thumbing one’s nose at public opinion might spell trouble for elected Democrats. But Republicans typically have much less to fear, because most GOP voters don’t expect — or even want — their representatives to follow the public will.
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If the majority of the public disagree with this, it's no doubt because, as usual, Quisling "Republicans" are TO THE LEFT of their "constituents" and are selling out to leftist tyranny. No burning down the homes of those who voted for Ebolacare in the first place, no national day set aside for pissing in their graves, etc. Yet they try to suggest that the bill is some sort of Uber-conservative thing the public doesn't like because they like Ebolacare, despite the unrelenting unpopularity of it, and the electoral success of candidates who promised its repeal.
Then they try to make the case that since (R) voters try to hold their "representatives" responsible, that those legislators are therefore MORE insulated from voter backlash than Dems. D'oh! If R's are insulated, it's because the Party, sometimes with help from the Dems, conspires against the voters to prevent the nomination and election of good, principled candidates.
The crack is strong in this one.
We want them to do what we elected them to do, and we WILL punish them if they don’t.
We need to do what we did in novermber, DRAIN THE SWAMP! WE THE PEOPLE will do it again!
The main reason is that Trump made a promise.
Because we keep electing them despite them lying 100% of the time.
This past November we re-elected 98% of the swamp.
McCain, Rubio, Hoeven and Murkowsky were all re-elected despite voting for Rubio’s amnesty bill.
Corker, Hatch, Heller and Flake voted for Rubio’ amnesty and are up in 2018.
WE have to drain the swamp, Trump can’t do it for us.
The Swampire strikes back.
There are a portion of GOP members that are ‘owned’ meaning someone has something on them. They are compromised.
The way they survive is by learning to be a master of lies and trickery.
They have squandered our children future. Our kids will never be able to even pay the interest on the debt. It is a planned destruction. But they are the oligarch.
69% of Americans opposed Obamacare. The Democrats passed it anyway - without even a single Republican vote in its favor.
And?
RETROACTIVE REFUND!
Demand it!
o Obamacare is denial of service.
o People are denied critical care.
o People are denied Doctors & Hospitals.
o Grandma is dying!
Forget repeal.
DEMAND your Obamacare RETROACTIVE REFUND now!
You heard it here first folks. :-)
Just repeal it. We don’t need a “replace.”
Agreed. This “replace” does not get rid of the insurance company bailouts!
So “public opinion” = rat opinion. Gotcha, compost.
What this article, and many on our side, miss is that there is sadly a very, very significant group of voters who WANT some sort of government health-care help.
This is why a straight “repeal” was never possible after so many insurance companies left certain markets. People were left without any options or coverage-—as Obama intended it.
Pure repeal wouldn’t address that. Now, many of us would say, well, too bad, the Constitution doesn’t allow it, but almost NO politician is going to do that. So we will have some sort of Obamacare lite or two-tiered system eventually.
Totally.
Sure seems to be the case.
This past November we re-elected 98% of the swamp.
McCain, Rubio, Hoeven and Murkowsky were all re-elected despite voting for Rubio’s amnesty bill.
Corker, Hatch, Heller and Flake voted for Rubio’ amnesty and are up in 2018.
WE have to drain the swamp, Trump can’t do it for us.
Agreed, 100%.
Good observations. But too, remember that the Washington Post writers, readers, AND editors/owners do NOT go outside the liberal think-speak-talk-write of Washington DC-NYC-SFO-LA. They do NOT associate with anybody who thinks differently than their biases and hatred. So, to a Wash Post editor, there is NO people who are worth listening to as conservatives, or even as “Americans” - America is the hated ones to them.
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