We’re being slowly drowned in the bathtub, just as they said they’d do

He's becoming toxic for republicans in close races, and will be replaced in January.

The discharge petition ?
Couldn’t get 218 votes ?






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Can't find any news about it other than the fact it was filed.

Not a word of news about it



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But they remain alive. So after this stunt by Johnson, it may get some Republicans to sign on to the one that all Democrats have already signed (for a 3 year extension).

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5650083-aobamacare-subsidies-amendment-vote/

This has to do with Republicans’ long ongoing efforts to destroy the ACA – unable to repeal the Act, Republicans seek to cripple the ACA by ending access to affordable healthcare.

The right’s meritless contempt for the ACA has nothing to do with its provisions and everything to do with the president who signed the Act into law.

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Or as it's more commonly known, racism.

State rep Kris Crawford spelled it out 12 years ago.
Note: Crawford a republican physician was calling out other republicans who opposed ACA Medicaid expansion.

‘It is good politics to oppose the black guy in the White House’
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna51171700

They couldn't succeed in repealing it, so they're basically knee-capping it. By driving people out of it due to cost, they intend to cripple it, and get it to die of its own weight.

And yet, the puzzling part is WHY, given the likely electoral consequences of doing this to the millions of voters using it. It has to be asking for electoral disaster for them to be screwing up people's lives like this. I can't see it being done to curry favor with the insurance companies, which does them no good if they don't have the political power that comes from election wins. I don't think Obama-hate alone can motivate them to potentially wreck their political power. It makes no sense.

They were hoping Dems would cave in, with another "meet us halfway to the grave" proposal. It will cause enormous pain, but it is better for the public to see this than for Dems to silently go along with the slow death of the ACA.

Now we must make this a major point of the mid-term elections.

What do they gain from killing the ACA, if they lose political power as a result?

Could this be a "test-run" for Social Security/Medicare? I don't see that flying either.

$125 billion.

They already gave that $125 billion (and much more) to Musk, Ellison, Bezos and the others in the 0.1%. And as a result, Trump's economy has increased the debt by over $700 billion in just the first 2 months of fiscal year 2026, which is a rate that would take the $38 TRILLION debt to $42 TRILLION by the end of this fiscal year.

$125 billion is truly a drop in the ocean, but out of principle, they just can't do anything that benefits the American people. Their dogma says that these insane policies will create "the hottest economy in the world" and everything will work out great in the end. But the fact is that all but one of the recessions since WWII have started under Republican Presidents and Republican fiscal policies.

Why? That's who they are. It is what they always do.

just blame it all on the Democrats. Their base will believe them.

They could have voted on that bill twenty times.

they cater to the very wealthy

In Hell trump was ever gonna allow his sheep to pass that extension. EVER!!!! He and they tried nearly 100 times in his first appointment as president to kill Obama care. He hates Obama for making fun of him at the Media Banquet for all to see and laugh.
A black man dare Mock him? His second biggest embarrassment was McCain with the thumbs down. Now, this is his guaranteed opportunity to kill Obama Care and stick it to the black man. It is dead in the water.
None of his cult in office would survive his wrath to extend the subsidies. It WAS “Never ever ever” (like a Taylor ex) gonna get passed.
None of them give a single fuck about the American people that will die. Not one fuck, and a large percentage are his red hat dumbasses.
But the spill over that will affect ALL insurance coverage will hit us all.
Health insurance will become just like home insurance on the coast of Florida or anywhere in the GULF of MEXICO. Ask anyone in the path of Katrina if they can afford flood insurance?
All the destruction from the shut down meant nothing to them. They would have kept it up through Christmas, while smirking at their evil and the cards we were dealt. The smirks they all proudly wear. All his billionaire friends planted in our government.
Like Moses Mike and that prick over finance and spending that swear we are exploding with a great economy.
Voting, especially not voting, consequences are upon us. We are all gonna suffer, and lots will die or became homeless and bankrupt. While the smirking Billionaires become multi Billionaires. (tax free billionaires) Merry Christmas (for white Jesus) Happy Next Year (another year minimum) of hell. If the world is not dead, like its inhabitants, self inflicted.
God Bless America??? Nope, he saw he was wasting his time.

I don't feel bad for them if their insurance rates skyrocket. They voted for it.

Were about a month away from that bullshit starting...

Only millionaires and billionaires will be taken care of by these christo-fascists.

Last night I just watched the movie "The Island"....wouldn't surprise me at all if this were to come true.

Senate passed it. It shows how stupid Johnson is and how his political views consist entirely of exactly what Trump tells him to do. Allowing a vote and letting some Republicans in swing districts vote for it could help a few of them win reelection. With no vote, he's making it far more likely that all those districts go Blue. If he had any political skill at all, he would realize that and allow the vote. Instead, he's writing his own political obituary.

We'll find out if it is successful.

you just guaranteed a Democratic takeover in the House and, fingers crossed, the Senate and you lose your speakership.
Good job there MAGAt.

Tragically, because of you and your MAGAt loyalists, millions of Americans are going to lose their health insurance because of cost and millions more will see their premiums rise dramatically.

NOT

Allow Americans to forget that! Shout high and low next year. REPUBLICONS ARE THE DEATH PANEL group! Shout LOUD and OFTEN!!

We had to learn about that at the time, and big corps made sure their political tools like Palin deflected onto Democrats as the culprits so that big corps dark money could hide behind corporate deep state layers of decisionmaking that denied health insurance claims to pay for their skyscraper offices.

Thank you, small-minded republicans! The blue tsunami just keeps getting bigger and bigger...

of the ACA the only option is Universal Healthcare.

They are halfway through P2025 one year in. We're in bigger trouble than most Americans know.

Remember, more than anything else, that they COULD NOT come up with an alternative health care plan for the ACA. AND that they believe in governing power by Rule of Men, not by Rule of Law.

Why?

Because 24% of all Republican members of Congress have law degrees. In the House of Representatives, 52 Republicans (approximately 12% of the chamber's total 435 members) hold law degrees. Which means that 88% DO NOT.
In the Senate, 21 Republicans (21% of the 100 members) hold law degrees. FOR BOTH HOUSES, THAT'S IT.

In the House, Democrats have 85 lawyer-legislators compared to 52 Republicans.
In the Senate, approximately 47 senators (47% of the Senate) hold law degrees.
Democrats outnumber Republicans among these lawyer-legislators, with 25 Democrats to 21 Republicans

Democrats hold way more law degrees, and know the importance of of Rule of Law in the longest standing democracy in human history.

They DO NOT KNOW HOW TO GOVERN.

So they (and the felon) follow the Koch Heritage oligarch network's orders. They follow the power of money over the power of Law. Because they're tools of the rich. The rich want to be above the Rule of Law.
And so injustice is at the core of this government restructured and paid to serve the rich.

Knowing the numbers matters.

These people are laser focused on destruction. Governance is the furthest thought from their minds and definitely NOT part of the agenda.

The entire point is chaos.

Tell me what do they want to do FOR America?

They are successful in their inaction and desire for destruction. Those are the goals. "Government" by, for, of ... isn't even on the agenda.

Do they think it's just the "libtards" who buy insurance on the ACA? This will be yet another big hit for the farmers (among others).

These guys KNOW what they're doing is wildly unpopular. Their constituents have been screaming at them at town hall meetings, and I'm sure in emails & phone calls. They know what will happen when the subsidies expire. They know how much this will hurt and infuriate not only Dems, but their rethug supporters. And they don't care. Holy Mike will never be able to convince anyone they really tried to find a way to extend the subsidies. They've been trying to destroy the ACA since it started...this will be their pathway.

So either there are some rethugs who have finally discovered a conscious, and are willing to give up their cushy seat in the House, but don't want their families and lives threatened by openly defying that maniac and having his crazy minions show up at their house, OR (and this is the scary part for me) they already know the fix is in, just like 2024, and they have nothing to worry about when the election rolls around...the machines are already programmed to make sure they win. Remember that somehow Trump won all the swing states. Also, remember Musk said the quiet part out loud...if it weren't for him, Trump would have lost, and both the House and Senate would be in Democratic hands. And I don't think he was referring to the financial contributions.

across blue states using all the old fired expertise of former world class scientists and doctors at the CDC. Having the 4th largest economy on the planet and the population of 21 states helps make that work at scale again.

https://archive.ph/FLlvQ

punishable by laws with increased bite.

IMO

I believe the courts ruled it unconstitutional. I do remember them saying after it was passed that it would be so affordable that everyone would want to have it.

stumpy could do an EO saying there is a continued national economic emergency. Or the like.

I used to say that there is just no way this...person would do X.

I no longer believe this.

It is not much of a stretch to think the congress will be very active.

a really low monthly premium with a very high yearly deductible with claims denials built in. Networks will be run by companies you've never heard of -- hastily-put together publicly-traded companies and private equity with doctors under their control.

sand meet FACE once again.

The House wasn't part of that agreement