A truly inspiring example of leadership in action.
Leadership inaction
What a fucking shitheel
She always has that confused puppy look.
With the way this bill is moving through the process, I am surprised we have not heard of any democrats slipping in provisions.
But I guess expecting democrats to do anything resembling opposition is a bit too much to ask for.
They tried, but any additions or removals required a vote they lost every time. They of course could have used all their interns time making a list of amendments to be voted on, and then space them out for as long as the GOP kept trying to cram this shit through even though nobody is happy with it.
One explanation is that they don’t understand just how unpopular the bill is apt to be when it takes effect. Many Republicans rely on party-aligned media for their news, and these sources have mostly cheered the bill while ignoring its downsides. Both chambers of Congress have rushed the bill through with minimal scrutiny, shielding members from exposure to concerns. Even the White House seems unaware of what exactly it’s pressuring Congress to do. Yesterday, when a reporter asked Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about the megabill’s proposed tax on wind and solar energy, she appeared totally unfamiliar with the measure and punted the question. (The tax provision was later removed.)
This is a new level of low.
Real pissed my senator is being a dumbass.
Gre, wonder what would have happened if some people sat it out in protest. Hint. Hint.
Stupid fucks
Well it’s obvious she wants to be seen as a loyal GOP supporter or Trump with her ‘yes’ vote, but still wants the bill to be delayed. Having the house delay the bill makes her look like a loyal lapdog for optics, but secretly wants changes and can blame someone else for the bill being delayed instead of having the delay blamed on her vote
Coward
secretly wants changes and can blame someone else
So many of these Republicans are fully aware that the bill will break the back of the healthcare industry in their states. None of them want to stick their necks out for it, though. The mega-donors will forgive them in the end, but the primary voters are only going to hear “You’re a Secret Democrat for voting against MAGA”.
Coward
If only there was something she herself could have done to stop it. Like single-handedly, one act that she could have easily chosen to stop this whole damn thing.
But alas, there was clearly nothing.
Gee if only there was some other way she could express her opposition to the bill. Some kind of voting process…
It was a 50/50 vote, if she would have voted no, it would not have passed the Senate
I wonder if the one downvote is somebody confused that maybe you’re defending her, which is clearly not the case, or if you at some point made a tankie upsetty sphagetti and now they stalk your posts lol.
While your two downvotes are one of each.
Exactly!
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
What the actual fuck.
Not quite the same level as McConnell filibustering his own bill after the Dems supported it, but it’s close.
She is more centrist than most Republicans, but she’s still afraid of being primaried.
I don’t buy it. There a small handful of them like her, and they just trade off who gets to act more centrist, but always leaving enough votes to pass the BS they want to pass. Its a ruse so they can keep winning their seats so people can say, see, she’s better than others.
And on the other side, always just enough dems to thwart any meaningful progress even when they’re given majorities, even “super” that one time, that actually then wasn’t.
