re: It's easy to pick on powerless immigrants and refugees, but where's the meat?

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ACA is the one that is disappointing. Bill Casssidy ran on the "I have a plan" to replace ACA and I don't see jack.

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Trusting people like Cassidy, Trump, Price, Ryan and other politicians that they have the answer has always been a mistake. They said what polls well and what people wanted to hear. They don't and never did have solutions lined up that matched their rhetoric with realistic results. At least not when it comes to what they say will be achieved with what their plans/ideas actually do. And the few places where they have gave realistic fixes(Trump on re-importation and letting Medicare negotiate drugs prices) Trump has silently abandoned due to industry pressures.

54 times Republicans tried to pass repeal bills or so called "fixes" to Obamacare when Obama was president. Right up until the end. Now that they don't have the shield of the presidents veto it is crickets on that front. That should of signaled to any reasonable person that they were playing games and shouldn't be trusted.

Any Republican that decries the evils of Obamacare's growth of high deductible plans and promises to "fix it" should immediately lose their credibility on the topic until further notice. Not only do all of their plans not fix this, many, like Price's plan, doubles down on high-deductible plans as a major feature. Based on the assumption, that the evidence so far does not bear out, that forcing people to spend more out-of-pocket will make them better healthcare consumers and bring down prices. When in reality it does reduce spending on the consumer end, but only because people forgo treatment, not because they shop around and it has driven prices down. That is just one example where the rhetoric(Obamacares evil high-deductible plans are killing families and we will fix it) does not match reality(high deductible plans are a feature, not a bug. I will expand them to government programs and let insurers feature them even more prominently).

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Well, how about we start by getting his cabinet confirmed first?

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Republicans hold the house and senate and due to Republican frickery back in 09 and the Democratic response, no longer does a veto hold any weight. At best Dems can slow, but Trump has failed to even name people to a vast majority of the positions he needs to fill. And because he has failed to do his own due diligence with squaring wth government ethics officers and clearing up conflicts of interest, he opens himself much more easily to being slowed down.

That excuse does not really work.
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LOL, You think I think BC is going to replace ACA.

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No, I think that you think that what BC thinks about the ACA will have no impact on the senate's thinking on how to replace the unthinkable ACA passed by the thoughtless for the unthinking. But what I was saying is that in my thinking BC's thinking will have a major impact on the senate's thinking on how replace the thoughtless Obamacare that unthinkingly passed to the detriment of the unthinking and thinking alike despite your thinking unthinkable thoughts!

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TBoy

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but where's the meat?

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Is this like that old Wendy's commercial with the old lady asking "where's the beef"?

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Trump's been too busy tweeting, reading what all the press is writing about him and responding, traveling to Florida every weekend record amounts of tax payer money, still trying to find an NSA appointment, signing executive orders for show, and making sure his new position as president is benefiting his companies. Is there any time for governing???

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All this and he's still accomplished more in a month than your boy did in 8 years. Sad, isn't it?