Everybody else has explained how hugely different the processes were, so I’ll just point out that the Bush tax cuts were passed via reconciliation. So, um, no, Obama didn’t start this.

Personally, I think the vote ought to be restricted to us purple math tornados.

You think reconciliation is the issue here???

Dude, that is every LAST piece of legislation put forth in God-knows how long. Slapping riders onto bills in order to get them to pass is nothing remotely unique to the Obama administration.

It’s the first step. You can’t start enacting policies that promote equality and education and critical thinking until you have policymakers who think those things are important. For as long as these people who are trying their damnedest to promote inequality and propaganda remain in power, nothing will change. Big…

Except Obama never did anything remotely like this. ACA went through 3 committees in the House and 2 in the Senate. So that there’s what one would call some made-up bullshit.

Well if that’s how your defining your criteria, then you’re being specious by ascribing it to Obama. Because what you’re describing is -with rare, notable exception- just regular ‘ol legislation.

Totally ridiculous comparison. I remember the ACA debate going on and on for like a year. This was rammed through in like two weeks.

the ACA took 6 months to pass, had some changes, but the majority of it was available to read by staffers a time, THis is the same posturing bullshit the GOP has tired. Just the problem is getting the right to vote more to the left, and they have blindsiders on.

Except he did no such thing. You’re comparing apples and hand grenades.

That’s a completely specious comparison. The only way in which the two are alike is party-line voting. The ACA, regardless of what you think of it, was presented as an actual honest-to-god piece of legislation that included panels, revisions, extended periods to debate and discuss measures, and a modicum of…

I know you are a troll because no one who ever did the slightest bit of research into how the PPACA was passed would say something this stupid.

The ACA had 8 months of hearings, meetings, and committee reviews. It was scored by the CBO. There were 79 roll-call votes, 44 public hearings, and 160 GOP amendments introduced before the final bill was passed with a supermajority that could invoke cloture and end a filibuster. This bill is being crammed through in a…

The ACA was subject to 47 public hearings and roundtables before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and another 53 before the Senate Finance Committee. It underwent a monthlong marking up in the bipartisan HELP Committee before being brought to the floor for a vote. There, it was debated for 25…

Um, no. That was an almost year long process from the time it left committee. It was in Obama’s second year in office that it passed- and it was one of his first agenda items. Do not believe GOP propaganda. It is NOT the same.
 The Senate debate for the ACA was the second longest consecutive session in congressional…

Listening to the analysis from panelists on NPR today, the likely rationale for the haste in trying to pass this was that Republicans are trying to ramp up fundraising for the 2018 elections right now and are worried that big donors won’t come through (or won’t come through soon enough) if they take their time with…

Vote in every election you can. A shitty city council member can fuck your life over just as thoroughly as a shitty US president.

Fuck the people who are doing this. Fuck everyone who is enabling them, and fuck everyone who has allowed it to happen through their own inaction or hand-wringing over emails and speeches. This was all avoidable. This didn’t have to be our reality. Fucking vote in 2018. Vote in 2020. Vote in 2022, Vote in 2024. If…

They made him light-skinned a la Sammy Sosa!