And You Thought I’d Never Say “Thank you, Chuck Grassley.”
Senator Chuck Grassley ain’t well-known for his intellect. I thought I would possibly be the last person on earth to celebrate that.
But, things have gotten weird. Really weird.
Grassley supports the Graham-Cassidy bill and, bless his heart, took to the airwaves to explain why.
“You know, I could maybe give you 10 reasons why this bill shouldn’t be considered,” Grassley said. “But Republicans campaigned on this so often that you have a responsibility to carry out what you said in the campaign. That’s pretty much as much of a reason as the substance of the bill.”
In normal times, you’d think that being totally political would be one of the reasons NOT to support the bill. But, these are weird times.
It appears that removing the word “Obamacare” far outweighs putting 10 million people off healthcare.
Grassley does not stop with the admission the Republican plan is solely a political move and heath care be damned. Oh no, he also explains why state boundaries were originally set for health care reasons.
Allowing states to shape health care benefits and regulations to match their populations will better account for the geographic and economic diversity of the country.
“What might fit Massachusetts and New York and Maryland doesn’t fit Iowa very well,” Grassley said.
You know, because somebody living in Georgia ain’t at all like somebody living in Alabama. Hell, they don’t even root for the same college football teams so how the dickens do you expect them to have the same health care needs? Little known fact: cancer does not kill you in Nebraska. I mean, you have to call into work sick for a couple of days, drink some apple cider vinegar, and you’re new and fit by Friday. However, hangnails will land your butt in intensive care in South Dakota.
I have an idea. Let’s repeal the word “Obamacare” and replace it with the words “Affordable Care Act.” Don’t change anything else – just that. Everybody happy now?
Thanks to everybody for the heads up!
Except for the minor detail of 32 million people losing health care, the brouhaha would be extremely funny. The Republicans, who coined the word “Obamacare” in the hopes of pinning a bad piece of health care legislation on the then President, are now frantically trying to repeal said legislation because it is called “Obamacare”, a reminder to everyone of what Democrats will do for the American people vs what the Republicans want to do to the American people.
1From the first day it was obvious that the reason to hate Obamacare is that “The Affordable Care Act” was dubbed “Obama Care” in order to make people not trust any thing associated with the black guy. But it became popular in spite of the name. Repugnuts could not have anything that was popular be associated with President Obama. So health care must be taken away from the American people to punish President Obama! BE DAMN with the Americans who are not RICH!
2A tip of the hat Bob. Between the two posts we have said what so many Democrats and sane independents have been thinking about what asses Republicans have shown themselves to be!
3So is this the “beautiful plan” tRump boasted of back in February claiming it is almost ready? Grassley has a short memory it is his and Kennedy’s staffs that were the primary authors of the ACA.
4On my personal continuum of applying a salve of crow with a dash of stfu, I propose this solution to the current crisis in America’s insurance coverage.
51st STOP calling The Affordable Care Act Obama Care.
2nd shore up the acknowledged imperfections in The Affordable Care Act. Now.
3rd enhance The Affordable Care Act field of membership to include every American, from cradle to grave. A sort of Medicare for All plan.
4th 🙂
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6Charles E. Grassley, is just a self-proclaimed “pig farmer from Iowa,” and has never been an attorney!
7I suppose in the world of republicans just being around a pig pen 60 or so years ago qualifies you to head the “Senate Judiciary Committee!”
Chuck Grassley’s explanation is too typical of the GOP plan: no excuses, just prevail in their most conservative goals, meaning supreme court justices, health care aka tax cuts for the rich, prevent voters’ access to the polls, conspire with the Russians to win elections…
8Then they say the Dems won’t come to the table.
The only way to prevail over that line of thinking is to beat their butts soundly at the polls, then implement your own programs so they will come around to what is know as compromise.
Put 100% effort into defeating The Turtle in Kentucky because he will change only when he is pushed out of office.
Fired off another missive to our embarrassment Dean Heller regarding the latest snacilbupeR assault on health care and gifts to insurance company executives.
Daniel, the “turtle in Kentucky” doesn’t deserve to survive until his next election cycle. Nor can we wait. The corrupt old fool isn’t up for reelection until 2020. When “Hurricane Mueller” hits, let’s hope its path is sufficiently wide to remove a whole lot of corruption in its path.
Fred Farklestone, fossils in the Senate like Grassley, Hatch and Oklahoma snowball Inhofe aka pigs at the troth are poster boys for election finance reform. Time to end incumbents as a protected species. No more campaign war chests; let’s level the playing field for challengers to the corrupt and useless gasbags.
9Wait a minute. Is this the Rethugian way of untangling something? If it is, cannot understand why these people haven’t hung themselves.
10Sometimes I almost feel deprived living in Maryland– all my folks in Congress are sane Democrats and I don’t need to tell them how to vote (for all the good it does now anyway), and they’re not national jokes for being corrupt idiots. But I think I can live with the relative boredom, and I wish everybody had the same affliction.
11“Let’s repeal the word ‘Obamacare’ and replace it with the words ‘Affordable Care Act.'”
12And this is why I have NEVER — no, not even once — used the term “Obamacare” but always carefully called it “the ACA”– or, if I felt like reminding people, “the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.”