Posted on 07/31/2024 6:29:14 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
This week marks seven years since Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) historic vote to save ObamaCare. I will never forget a phone call I had with him just moments before he gave the big thumbs down on the Senate floor. He was reaching out about a statement I had issued opposing the Republicans’ effort to repeal ObamaCare. He thanked me for putting people over party and confidentially let me know he was going to do the same.
Although we shared the same concern that our health care system desperately needs commonsense reforms to lower costs, McCain and I both knew that the Republican bill to repeal ObamaCare was irresponsible and would jeopardize the health care coverage for our citizens.
As McCain told me that day, his vote was about far more than just ObamaCare. While he was courageously battling brain cancer, he wanted to send a message to his colleagues and the nation that the broken status quo in Washington could not continue. In a speech later that day, he appealed that the Senate was being weighed down by partisan dysfunction and was on the “decline.”
Can anyone dispute that the problem has grown far worse since McCain spoke those words seven years ago? Our political discourse is spiraling into rabid tribalism, hatred and violence. Politicians in Washington care more about appealing to the loudest and angriest voices than actually delivering for the people they serve. They are “trying to find a way to win without help from across the aisle.” Ultimately, the losers of all this partisan dysfunction are the American people.
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The Hill may as well be Media Matters.
It’s not the right wingers who creating the new world disorder.
Otherwise, forget McLame.
It’s not the right wingers who
are creating the new world disorder.
Otherwise, forget McLame.
If I lived in Md., I wouldn’t vote for Lockdown Larry.
I am glad McCain is dead and that his criminal family shall go the way of the dodo. Pure evil scum.
There is an inherent conflict between takers and makers.
“It’s only been like 24 hours since John McCain was put to death.” - John Kasich
Drugs might as a condition of patentability and FDA approval be required to be sold at affordable prices - say no more than 8% of income.
If the patient lives a long time, the drug company will make a lot of money. If a cancer dies after a mere two months, not much money.
It takes two to tango.
The Taker Party would normally lose to the Maker Party in a well-run country.
What the Taker Party is doing is opening the gates to tens of millions of new takers to shift the normal political balance of the country.
The voters of the Maker Party are very upset about the invasion of takers as makers are being effectively disenfranchised.
If two thieves can’t reach an agreement to rob me, I am a lucky person.
McCain is one of the ones that broke the GOP status quo, prferring his Dim-media friends more than anything else and constantly voting so as to keep their applause of him coming.
Detroit - broken
St. Louis - broken
Chicago - broken
Newark - broken
NYC - broken
For those of us who believe the federal government already is doing more than it should, dysfunction that prevents it from doing even more is a good thing.
Its good to mention that we have big cities, which are run by democrats , which face severe problems.
In some of these cities there is no Republican opposition, not even token Republican opposition,,to democrat control.
It’s sad to see the condition of so many big cities. But we can say for a fact that they cannot blame any of their problems on Republicans.
It is absurd to ask Mr. Abnormal normally getting $10,000/month in health care and Mr. Healthy normally getting $200/year in health care the same health insurance premiums.
If Mr. Healthy is asked to pay $500/month for most likely nothing, Mr. Healthy is getting ripped off.
Do you think people would be so angry if the federal government mainly built and maintained “post” roads, a patent office, a copyright office and a small military?
For 1929 there were about four million individual income tax filers (page 5):
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/29soirepar.pdf
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