I know that the republicans in the senate have decided not to offer their death care bill for a vote but I don't trust them one iota. Anything that comes out of their mouths is open to being a lie. That is my experience with them and they will not fool me. Yet 3 days to go is a good thing since in 72 hours they will no longer be able to pass any bill to destroy our health care. I will also give credit to those few republican senators who came out on the record as no votes in order to stall and now likely kill the republican effort to make us all suffer even more. John McCain, Susan Collins, and the dreaded duo of Rand Paul and Ted Cruz. Specifically though, Paul and Cruz came out against the death care bill because it wasn't harsh enough, yet they did help serve a purpose but that is all and will get nothing more from me unless I can serve them both a knuckle sandwich. :)
But McCain and Collins deserve more recognition because they said that the bill went too far, which to me is an understatement since the bill was going the wrong way all along. So that is all McCain and Collins gets from me as well. So as the clock ticks down to zero in 3 days I will remain vigilant and keen to notice if somehow a last ditch effort forms. Unlikely for sure but nothing republicans do, especially when it comes to destroying honorable things surprises me. After the 3 days it will be mostly impossible for republicans to repeal health care with their death care because the reconciliation process won't be available, which is to say they will need 60 votes to pass their death care bill unlike the 50 votes they need now over the next 3 days.
So if we survive, and it seems likely, over the next 3 days we will have done a remarkable thing. Although we liberal/progressives are the minority represented in the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government, we are the majority of the people. And being so we have forced the hand of this despicable republican government to our will and not their heinous one. People power is a real thing and we keep proving it. We will have opportunities to protest more in the coming months with tax cuts for the wealthy and more tax burden for the working middle poor among other policies coming from republicans. But our greatest protest is coming in about 14 months. the midterm elections where if we vote like our lives depend upon it, which is what is actually happening, then we can change the balance of power back toward the majority of the people in the legislative branch and in the states.
But McCain and Collins deserve more recognition because they said that the bill went too far, which to me is an understatement since the bill was going the wrong way all along. So that is all McCain and Collins gets from me as well. So as the clock ticks down to zero in 3 days I will remain vigilant and keen to notice if somehow a last ditch effort forms. Unlikely for sure but nothing republicans do, especially when it comes to destroying honorable things surprises me. After the 3 days it will be mostly impossible for republicans to repeal health care with their death care because the reconciliation process won't be available, which is to say they will need 60 votes to pass their death care bill unlike the 50 votes they need now over the next 3 days.
So if we survive, and it seems likely, over the next 3 days we will have done a remarkable thing. Although we liberal/progressives are the minority represented in the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government, we are the majority of the people. And being so we have forced the hand of this despicable republican government to our will and not their heinous one. People power is a real thing and we keep proving it. We will have opportunities to protest more in the coming months with tax cuts for the wealthy and more tax burden for the working middle poor among other policies coming from republicans. But our greatest protest is coming in about 14 months. the midterm elections where if we vote like our lives depend upon it, which is what is actually happening, then we can change the balance of power back toward the majority of the people in the legislative branch and in the states.
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