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I'd always thought republican voters liked McCain, what's changed since 2008??
He made the fatal mistake and called out fellow Repubs for their actions and dared agree with the Dems on an issue or two, in Con world that makes you a Traitor to their cause and you will be thrown under the bus as soon as it comes by. Happens all the time
What a load. This guy just wasted the taxpayer's money on green eggs and ham, and the usual suspects diefy him. Yeah Ted Cruz is a giant all right, a giant asshat.
Cruz wasted tax payer money? Harry is a waste of tax payer money and Harry has no Votes! No gun control vote period and he Won't! Ain't that nice?
Why do the hard-right people always have to be so damn dramatic? Everything is always Saving or Dooming America. Its either Taking My Country Back or Losing America Forever. We all have different opinions and political beliefs. Declaring yours the beliefs of "true" Americans and the only way a patriot can feel is so childish.
Especially when they are obviously in the minority. If they want to take "their" country back, they need to find a majority of people who agree with them.
You think ObamaCare is a good "substitute" for what was (still is, for a little while longer) the best health care system in the world? I think you're going to be very disappointed in a few years.
You may want to do a bit of research. The health care system in America sucks big time. We are way down the chart, and worse after the comparative costs for that care+ between the U.S. and other countries are calculated.
As a for instance, when Kate Middleton had her baby, the total cost was @ $15,000. The same delivery and hospital stay here would have been an average of $30,000.
We are also the only first world country that doesn't have UHC. The U.K. does. Draw your own conclusions.
Do you think Barack Obama, or Harry Reid, or any of the Democrats do? You're delusional.
You think ObamaCare is a good "substitute" for what was (still is, for a little while longer) the best health care system in the world? I think you're going to be very disappointed in a few years.
Well, I'll tell you what; Ted Cruz stands a lot taller than Harry Reid, John McCain, and Dick Durban, or any of the other Democrats you can name.
This isn't some game being played here. People are losing their jobs, having their hours cut, losing health plans they are happy with, and having their premiums skyrocket, because of this egregious bill. There isn't anything good about it. Why do you think the Unions now want out? Of course, Barack Obama will let them opt out in the end, and the rest of us will be stuck with it.
If it is so damn good, why don't our Congressmen and Senators want to be part of it?
"Improving" a bad piece of legislation is a waste of time, and it still won't work. We need to repeal it and work with the system we had.
No government run anything is cost efficient or will improve services. Haven't we learned that in 200 years?
You say: "We need to repeal it and work with the system we had."
Ok, so here is the problem. The system we had is GONE! Defunding does NOT bring back the system we had! You are as dumb as Cruz if you can't figure this out. The ACA is partway in, partway out, and you cannot stop now.
You ask: "You thing ObamaCare is a good "substitute" for what was (still is, for a little while longer) the best health care system in the world?"
No, Obamacare is not a good substitute. It is the ONLY think available to the self-employed after January 1. You and Cruz would tell us to go where? A mythical return to "what we had" that is already destroyed by the provisions of the ACA that are already in effect?
Republicans failed to win enough elections to avoid Obamacare, failed to get the Supreme Court to rule against it, failed to win the Senate....fail, fail, fail. You say we need to repeal it. THAT'S A HOOT! We do not have the VOTES! Can you count?
Cruz is still a speck of crap on a gnat's ass, and will be until he explains where today's buyers of insurance in the individual insurance market will go for coverage after January 1. And pretending like we can go back to what we had without a total repeal is exactly like saying unicorns will deliver magical new policies to everybody who needs one.
Why don't we fix the problems you mention? Sever the connection between work and health care. Fix the part-time problem, fix the 50th employee problem, fix what's broken about the POS that is Obamacare. But defunding is even more unworkable than fixing the POS we have.
Of course, you aren't buying your own insurance, are you? So you don't give a damn about the farmers and ranchers and shopkeepers and self-employed and small businesses that actually do need a place to go buy insurance after January 1.
And a time and taxpayer money waster.
Just what the gubermint needs!
Funny, when that woman in filibustered even though it was known beforehand that she couldn't stop the vote, I don't recall you saying that about her. Oh, that's right. She was a Democrat, so that changes everything.
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