Big mistake, Bull Man.
I’m just as unhappy as you are..... but looking at it logically 45 members voted for full repeal and 49 voted to get rid of the mandates.
We need to work to pick up the 5 members we need. Doing anything else is suicidal..... Democrats will take this to single-payer in a heartbeat.
Voting Libertarian won’t solve anything.
Nope, tired of this game. The whole party is a fraud. Sick and decrepit like a rotting corpse. I have heard this same argument for 50 years and this is the end of being played. As many have already come to recognize it is no longer democrats and republicans - it is a ruling class of aristocracy lording over the plebs. If Schumer ran the senate what would have been different? If the democrats had a majority what would have been different. I tire of the kabuki dance.
Don’t kid yourself, it wasn’t just three republicans killing this. They were just the three publicly needed to do the vote. Plenty of others were quietly cheering them on. They are the ones that will be campaigning and raising money for the party. Face it, this republic is dead. Nothing left but a oligarchy of money and power.
It isn't the way it is. We worked hard to get the Republicans a US Senate majority, and just enough of them join the coup. If they were to get another five "Republiccans", they'd find enough bought and paid for Republican Senators to join the coup. Our votes mattering is a myth.
On what do I base that outrageous claim? Across the political spectrum with just a handful of exceptions, they keep talking replace, reform, whatever. They don't talk about the billions of dollars their deep pocket donors in medical, pharmaceutical, insurance, and caregiver industries get out of this unsustainable mess. Until they stop subsidizing those industries and make them competitive again, "health care" is unaffordable. But why would they care? Their pockets are getting lined just fine.