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Butttt.... Rand Paul is

NCD — Sat, 24 Jun 2017 17:26:47 +0000

Butttt.... Rand Paul is running away from the Better American Healthcare Euthanasia Law......not stingy enough......while of his fellow Kentuckians, half are on Medicaid, CHIP, or Medicare.

This reminded me of Alan

Richard Day — Sat, 24 Jun 2017 03:19:06 +0000

In reply to Bernie Savages the AHCA, is Ignored by MS Press

This reminded me of Alan Grayson a few years back on the House floor. He represented the 9th Congressional District in Florida.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Grayson

Grayson attacked the repubs for proposing that they wished to kill people.

He was attacked for this speech and other speeches.

(I recall Weiner at this point in history)

Alan has been accused of beating his wife and other things.

But at the time, he WAS RIGHT.

THE REPUBS AND THEIR PLANS WILL KILL FOLKS.

I really think and feel that repubs appear to believe that we are all going to die anyway.

hahahahahah

Although, THIS AINT FUNNY.

Shakespeare could not have created a more sorrowful tragedy.

Not with the millions of folks facing heaven's door.

Robert Reich:

NCD — Sat, 24 Jun 2017 01:59:38 +0000

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Robert Reich:

Bad enough that the Republican Senate bill would repeal much

of the Affordable Care Act.

Even worse, it unravels the Medicaid Act of 1965 – which, even before Obamacare, provided health insurance to millions of poor households and elderly.

It’s done with a sleight-of-hand intended to elude not only the public but also the Congressional Budget Office.....

For years, Republicans have been looking for ways to undermine America’s three core social insurance programs – Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. The three constitute the major legacies of the Democrats, of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson. All continue to be immensely popular.

Now, McConnell and his Senate Republican colleagues think they’ve found a way to unravel Medicaid without anyone noticing.

Don’t be fooled. Spread the word.

Thanks Hal. I don't watch TV

NCD — Sat, 24 Jun 2017 01:03:13 +0000

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Thanks Hal. I don't watch TV News (stopped in 2003-"OIF cheerleading"), good to hear they have been giving Bernie time on it.

Congratulations on the op-ed will watch for it!

If the Republicans push this through I will call the NYT to complain and cancel, telling them I am tired of them playing the sucker for the GOP......this time with the articles I linked, on Heller, and the 'McConnell wins if he loses" bs, and not headlining Bernie.

I really appreciate this

HSG — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 22:56:38 +0000

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I really appreciate this piece NCD. Thank you. I agree that the NYT and WaPo - which by the way (shameless self-promotion alert) will be publishing an op-ed I wrote this Sunday - have largely ignored Bernie. But, I do think CNN has been pretty good about giving him an audience and even at MSNBC (home of Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow, and Joy Reid - collective yuk), Morning Joe and Chris Hayes have provided Bernie with a good deal of air time.

Hope I am wrong, but this may

NCD — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 21:37:01 +0000

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Hope I am wrong, but this may be more dissimulation, head fakes, and the standard GOP practice of sowing confusion and blowing smoke.

My bullshit meter is saying McConnell will jam it through next week, saying "it's better now, fixed" and the tax cuts on the rich funding health care, and Medicare also, which cuts are retroactive to Jan. 1, 2017, will be a done deal.

As I have noted before, you can cut taxes with reconciliation, by cutting safety net spending like Medicaid to balance the budget impact-over 10 years according to the rules-you cannot RAISE taxes without 60 Senate votes, control of the House and the Presidency.

This will be a slam dunk for protecting the rich if it passes.

Good links, hope people read

NCD — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 21:17:09 +0000

In reply to BTW here are the stories you

Good links, hope people read them.

Still believe it is inxceusable to ignore Bernie without any news report on his Senate speech, and Obama relegated to back pages.

Dean Heller (R) Nevada,

NCD — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 21:11:12 +0000

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Dean Heller (R) Nevada, posturing he cannot support AHCA "in its present form" now top front page lead NYT.

No Bern....ignored. "Worst legislation in his lifetime".

This Heller kabuki leads....no, they are not doing "fine", and the Republican strategy is based on them not doing enough.

Probably all water over the

artappraiser — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 20:10:44 +0000

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Probably all water over the dam given the breaking news about Senator Heller, whose opinion is more important to the reality of what may happen.

Think I'm going back to spending time on the news....

Bernie's description of the

artappraiser — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 19:59:21 +0000

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Bernie's description of the scam should be a lead on the front page.

I find that an absurd statement. Even if a newspaper's aim is political (which I would hope is not the case), it would be a really stoopid move, would give those 4 wavering GOP Senators more ammunition to vote yeah.

I know you know how hated Bernie the commie has become with a large segment of our society. He did it himself, he's proud of the brand.

Furthermore why would you want an op-ed by one Senator at the top of a newspaper? Have you gone mad? What was wrong with WaPo's massive amount of coverage and analysis yesterday? It basically comes to a lot of the same conclusions. Why insert Bernie's name there to cause more accusations of political preference that the major papers already get?

I am very surprised you think this. It is basically agreeing with the whole adversarial political press model of Breitbart et.al. I remember you criticizing Lulu for recommending and relying on lefty spin sites, I thought you were against the adversarial model. Don't you see how printing a Senator's opinion as news would be doing that same thing.

The NYTimes and WaPo are doing just fine, their practice of their "Fourth Estate" role is one of the few things about our system of government that are functioning well right now. I don't want them putting Senator's opinions as their headline. If a Senator switches parties and starts saying something totally opposite of what he's been saying, that I agree should be a headline.

NCD, it is just this simple: it is sooooo not news that Sanders is against the GOP's ACHA.

Matter of fact, Cooper giving him 10 minutes yesterday so early on after the bill was released further branded CNN as left partisan, which means more people switching to Fox News. If they had spent that time with a more independent analyst like Sarah Kliff of Vox.com, some of those people might have stayed on CNN and we'd all be better off.