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Donald not keep a promise to the media? Unpossible.

 

Which, of course, means he'll go full Mussburger.

 

Pretend for a moment you're a Republican politician in Congress in, say, 2013. You believe the ACA is terrible policy. You'd like to see it done away with. You have some fairly detailed ideas about what you'd like to replace it with.

But you're no dummy. You recognize that a non-trivial portion of the winnable electorate is in the "cool to it" to "lukewarm about it" range. And unless the change is to rename it "CheGuevaraServe," President Obama's going to veto anything having to do with the ACA. So why bother?

Any detailed attempt to propose a replacement would have been a fool's errand. It was gonna get vetoed, and all you'd have done is give your future opposition ammunition to come at you. And that's the best-case scenario.

 

Thank you so much for this. tweets i can handle.

 

So it's like everything else Trump has proposed, big on bluster, short on details?

 

And other countries have already been doing that to the U.S. since forever, regardless of who's in power.

 

Re: the Chicago video, I guess I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be outraged about in a way that would drive discussion here or anywhere else halfway intelligent people gather. Shitheads did a shitty thing. They have subsequently been charge with doing said shitty thing. Is there systemic support for torturing special needs people that I'm unaware of? This seems like mostly voyeurism to me.

 

Yes, the same thing that McCain said in 2008. Tax credits.

Of course, there's nothing to prevent insurance companies won't just take the tax credits into account and jack up the premiums even more.

 

Seriously ... RT (Russia Today). Russia Fucking Today ... I bet countless dozens are watching it on the 19 cable systems it's on (per its website). But if you're in certain of the finer hotels, you're in luck! Something about the Tropicana there on the Strip in Vegas always did make me suspicious. And all of those revolutionaries at the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek* in Dallas? We better keep an eye on them.


*They've got their base rooms available tonight for the low, low price of $420! To the Russian is good deal!

 

Wait. I have to pretend I'm no dummy?

I still think you could say you have been working out the details and bits and pieces but don't want to unveil them until the time is ripe for a new plan.

Hell, most of the GOPers certainly don't act like they have any kind of plan in their back pocket or that they know someone who does.