This is something where it is in their best interest to do something, though. Marco Rubio was apparently victim of some of this same chicanery. In ‘08 and ‘12 the Republican nominees were the more anti-Russian candidates. The next time a Republican besides Trump is on the ticket, they will be afraid the Russians will…

The one ray of hope we have is that there is a bipartisan consensus on this. Trump is the only one who doesn’t agree it happened and doesn’t want to act. Republicans in Congress realize that their party is usually the one that is more anti-Russian, and therefore are more at risk.

Not really. The 1000 trolls have been reported on. The hacking of the DNC and releasing damaging things to Wikileaks. We know they tried to hack the actual voting machines in many states and we believe they weren’t successful. What are we still debating?

Their problem is that Obamacare is the Republican way to get more people on healthcare. They took it from the Heritage Foundation. It’s the market-based system. There isn’t really an alternative for conservatives. They can either unravel it and throw people off, or they can try to somehow pass something farther to the…

Right now they just don’t have a path to pass it, though. I’m not saying they won’t get there, because they might, but the leadership can’t just order everyone to vote for this. Maybe as many as a dozen won’t listen, and they can only lose two and still pass this.

It was really good, but it wasn’t Uematsu, and it was different.

Well, the fox and the hens set up a joint task force to protect the henhouse, so this could work...

The frustrating thing about this one is that it is incredibly easy to solve, but the people who have the power to do so just don’t decide to do it. I mean, so many issues are large and complex, and need complex solutions. Often we don’t know for sure what the solution is. But in this case the solution is just to pay…

Except they didn’t get into the habit of jacking up prices to cover people who didn’t pay. There have been interviews and articles on this, and the administrators at hospitals are pretty open about the fact that they don’t expect the uninsured to pay at all. I mean, they go after them, but they assume that’s going to…

That’s a fair point. One of the pieces of Obamacare that was the hardest to explain to the public was getting rid of junk plans. It did technically make insurance prices to go up on average, but it was because people were paying tiny amounts of money for terrible plans that didn’t really cover anything. Now the…

That thing about the passage of time between now and the midterms is exactly what the Democrats thought after they passed Obamacare, which was, again, more popular than this. Don’t get me wrong, they’ll be able to hold the majority of their base, but that’s not enough. You can’t hold the House and Senate just by…

The sad thing about our healthcare industry is that there are three major powers and they are all working against us. The insurance companies, the hospitals, and the drug companies. The drug companies gouge us, then the hospitals have outrageous markups on that already terrible prices, and insurance companies actually…

Yeah, that was my point. People will technically have more options, because this bill will allow them to give shittier plans and such, but it will also take away the funding. On paper, it gives us all more choice. In reality, if you can’t afford something, it’s not actually a choice.

The thing is, this isn’t a case where they can live in a bubble. Both the House and the Senate versions of the bill had support numbers in the teens. That means the Republicans have already lost a significant portion of their base on this issue.

Very true. Republicans have even been saying for years that once you give people an entitlement, it’s nearly impossible to take back. They’ve been saying it as if giving people healthcare is the worst thing in the world, and that’s total BS, but I do agree that they can’t take it back now without major political…

The Republicans’ problem on this is, despite the fact that Obamacare does have serious problems, it actually gave more people insurance and access to healthcare. It wasn’t a mechanism to take it away. That’s why despite years of trying, they haven’t come up with one credible case where someone has been killed by…

The only thing about this that shocked me was that he didn’t seem to see that this is a scandal. He is a big part of the reason the people of his state (not to mention tourists) can’t use the beaches, and yet he will use them. He’s hurting the people of his state, and at the same time abusing his position so that he…

So true. That’s one of the many where if it were Obama, they’d call it tyranny, but it’s a maniac with an R next to his name, so it’s fine.

I hate crowds and generally doing things, but I would take that job. Mostly to be part of a shadowy and sinister organization. I’ve always wanted that.

I hate crowds and generally doing things, but I would take that job. Mostly to be part of a shadowy and sinister organization. I’ve always wanted that.