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Posted on 10/08/2025 1:26:32 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
When Republicans are quoting a Washington Post editorial, Democrats should be seeing the writing on the wall.
The capital city newspaper has been a Democratic booster for decades, but an editorial published Sunday blasted the party's role in provoking the current government shutdown so badly that Wyoming Republican John Barrasso used the piece as ammunition in a speech on the Senate floor.
The editorial put the blame for the shutdown exactly where it belongs.
“Democrats are losing the Schumer Shutdown," Barrasso, the Senate majority whip, said in the Monday speech, according to a news release from his office.
"Even their media allies are turning on them. Here is an editorial from The Washington Post today. The headline is, ‘The shutdown conversation no one wants.’ The Washington Post Editorial Board wrote this: ‘Democrats have demanded that Republicans agree to extend the covid-era insurance subsidies without proposing any way to pay for it. The Congressional Budget Office estimates this will cost $350 billion over the next decade.’ That’s The Washington Post talking – not Republicans."
After a few paragraphs of obligatory, blame-both-sides background, the editorial settles down to getting to the heart of the Democratic demands: Expanding the bane of Obamacare.
"The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable," the editorial explained. "President Barack Obama’s signature achievement allowed people to buy insurance on marketplaces with subsidies based on their income. The architects of the program assumed that risk pools would be bigger than they turned out to be. As a result, policies cost more than expected."
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Of course, everyone knew the ACA premiums would not be affordable, that was a fiction used to sell the plan.
I know many people who are uninsured because they refuse to pay the unsubsidized premiums. They find it more cost effective to pay MD directly.
The democrats could care less about the US all they care about is themselves
yep, anyone who said insurance would be cheaper when insurance companies are forced to accept pre-existing conditions was a freaking liar or a retard.
“YOU HAVE TO PASS IT TO FIND OUT WHAT IS IN IT”
THAT WAS THE FIRST CLUE
Not necessarily. You have left out the possibility of liar AND retard!
Which seems the most likely in this case, for many involved.
“I know many people who are uninsured because they refuse to pay the unsubsidized premiums. “
I don’t think there ever were any unsubsidized premiums.
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