Friday, July 28, 2017

Republican healthcare bill fails

High drama.

And American Senate is nothing if not purely drama. This national ordeal demonstrates United States Senate exists for show. Presently, Americans do not have a disputative governing body, rather, Americans have another Era of Good Feelings, of the sort that Senators like John McCain can abide. They see themselves ensconced in their own exclusive club, and not gladiators sent up to do battle.


 

They have no intention of allowing Obamacare to collapse. Against voter's wishes they intend to buttress the Affordable Healthcare Act with whatever it takes to seal their own expansion. 

Observation: Our exalted ruling class is terribly slow on the uptake.

Prediction: They're going to be made to pay for failure of representation. 

The force that overturned nearly a thousand seats across the United States, that turned both houses and the executive branch against all predictions, is not going anywhere. The long march by alarmed voters to turn back the growth of government has been ineluctable and each slight delivered has rebounded to make that force stronger. 

Senators like John McCain rebuff the people who sent him to Washington and those voters will return the snub. The Senate honestly believes that it rules the country while voters know otherwise. Anger among voters will increase even more when the ballooning cost of Affordable Healthcare takes effect that's built into it by its disingenuous design. This is not the usual voting pendulum swing that's been understood for so long, rather, this is a new voting force long derided and termed populist that grows with each affront delivered by their arrogant elected representatives. 

McCain specifically exemplifies this. Everything to be read through his recent condition and his return, all the articles and all of the hundreds of comments to them are exceedingly negative withouit a single bright spot. One way or another he's out. Along with others who imagine they've fooled their own voters with high drama while lacking results. This abject failure to represent voters is seen by voters as crime.

17 comments:

chickelit said...

The Senescent Ones are beHoldered to the same forces which bought forth Obamacare. It's a curious mix of wealthcare providers and consummate healthcare users who vote for free stuff.

chickelit said...

Observation: Our exalted ruling class is terribly slow on the uptake.

Several Republican Senators have just rejoined Democrat Senators in their opposition to the Executive Branch. They believe that the American people are on their side. But they are too raucous and disjointed to actually make that case. And if they formally unite as one, they will be rejected. Polls are good for something and polls tell us that Congressional approval ratings are worse that Trump's are.

edutcher said...

Junior has finally cemented his legacy as the 21st century's Arlen Specter. He will be missed by no one.

The others will be seen in Swamp Trek II: The Wrath Of Don, coming to a primary near you next year.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

I'm pretty sure the point of the U.S. Senate is not to do whatever the President wants it to do.

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

It is time to go home John McCain. Your Ted Kennedy legacy continues on.

ndspinelli said...

It seems Trump, and many supporters didn't realize Republicans would sabotage him every chance they got. WTF??? That was obvious.

Icepick said...

Hahahahahaha! This is glorious! Three years ago most (but not all) of you here were calling me a traitor for refusing to vote Republican that year. (I stayed home, and it's still the vote I'm happiest with.) Not a traitor to the Republican Party, or to "conservatism", but to the USA itself. It was CRITICAL to the future of the USA to vote Republican to resist Obama and roll back his policies. I told you that based on the evidence, you were clearly voting for the opposite. You called me a traitor, and I told you to get fucked.

And boy, have you! You guys keep getting bent over a sawhorse to get gang-raped by the likes of Mitch "Yertle" McConnell and Hanoi John McCain over and over again.

Payback is a bitch, fellas, and you've earned this for your absolute, blind, stupid faith that these pricks were ever on your side. It's a shame for the country that this is happening. But this shit is on you guys every bit as much as it is on Obama voters. You're getting EXACTLY what you voted for.

edutcher said...

Um, nobody was "You guys keep getting bent over a sawhorse to get gang-raped by the likes of Mitch "Yertle" McConnell and Hanoi John McCain over and over again" for anything.

We knew McConnell and McCain were untrustworthy, but at least Trump pushed the idea. You think Jeb would?

But all of this "Hahahahahaha! This is glorious!" means you won, what? You just sat on your dumb ass and did nothing,

Big whoop.

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

Icepick, more work is needed. I concur that the GOP elites who betrayed us need to be run out on a rail, but that rail is in the primaries. Collins does not upset me too much, she is a moderate Democrat in a slightly purplish state, but Alaska (WTF).

I am disappointed, but not hurt at all. Would Hillary have done us better? And ed is right about Jeb! (he is more of a tool than McCain, if that is possible).

edutcher said...

AK is under the thumb of a corrupt machine, that's what Sarah Palin was fighting. Murki's father is the Guv.

What happens now is Trump 1) does anything he can to make IdiotCare fail (which is basically sit there) and 2) take the Barry route and do anything he can to help people while undermining it (legally, of course; he is not a mulatto).

Leland said...

I don't see how voting for Donald Trump is the same as getting gang raped by McConnell or McCain. Maybe if Icepick had got on his high horse in 2008, but then he said voting for McCain was necessary to resist Obama. Overall, I see a whole bunch of projection, unsubstantiated claims, and a large assumption; just to call a bunch of people who don't give a f*ck to go get f*cked. I'm ok with getting f*cked, but I think perhaps Icepick is upset about not getting any, which is probably why the projection regarding gang rapes. Either way, if I had an interest in moving to Arizona or Kentucky; I'd gladly vote for someone else in the primary or stay home than continue the travesty that is Mitch McConnell or John McCain as Republicans. As it is, I get to vote for the Ted, and I'm perfectly fine with it.

Evi, Alaska is about to fall apart of the wheels. By the basic nature of the oil business, Prudhoe Bay's bests days were long ago. But it also cannot benefit from fraccing like other states, and its only chance of commercial recovery is building a LNG pipeline, which compared to the Dakota pipeline and XL pipeline; is going to be even more a political non starter, so much so that none of the majors are that interested. Easier to fold up shop, then fight the pipeline battle. That leaves only two other options, which are almost one in the same. Open ANWR, or free up federal land back to the state (which would give Alaska a chance at doing what is happening in Texas, Pennsylvania, the Dakotas, and Colorado). What does that mean politically? The subsidy gravy train is going to get cut off and soon. Shortly there after, the largest industry and employer in the state won't be. And that's exactly what the more native (Inuit and multi generation white anglo-european American) want along side their SJW brethren in the lower 48. So if you want to stay a Senator there for 6 more years; the wind, it is a blowing from a different direction.

Methadras said...

Every single congressman and senator needs to be locked in their respective chambers and fire bombed. These motherfuckers are about as useful as the black plague.

Amartel said...

Why are these fucking Dems cheering? This was their shitty political redistribution of power idea in the first place. The unaffordable uncare unfact has done nothing but fail violently since inception. That's not a secret. And they did nothing to help "fix" it.
But yay! We handed Trump a dead rat and he didn't magically revive it and turn it into the easter bunny. YAY US!

Amartel said...

Rich celebrities and gold plan politicians cheer the fact that Americans will continue to die for lack of affordable health care ...
because that suits the political aspirations of rich celebrities and gold plan pols. yay.

Amartel said...

How many more voters will Trump win over when they see the supposedly caring Democrat representative or senator refusing to revise the goverment health care law because it's not politically expedient?

chickelit said...

@Icepick: Good to see you back. You haven't changed one bit.

edutcher said...

The other point to keep in mind is this is yet again a great endorsement for term limits.