No lefty threat. I've voted GOP for 40 years. I voted for Reagan in 1976. What I'm trying to do is to urge pragmatism and realism. Don't misunderstand why Trump won. His voters don't want their middle class entitlements taken away. They also don't want the chaos that would ensue if ACA were repealed in toto without a replacement. Hell, I bet they'd just as soon see the ACA "fixed" by pouring more money down the rathole.
The Senate bill represents pragmatic, sound policy that bends the curve back in the conservative direction. I support it - because I want the GOP to succeed and beat back the liberal tide.
Conservatives are setting themselves up for a fall in 2018. That's not a threat, that's just reality. No, it's the last thing I want to see happen. But it is the future if conservatism doesn't ditch its fools.
"pragmatism" and "realism" are the absence of principle that got us into this mess. We have done that dreck for far too long. ENOUGH! We have a Constitution, GO BY IT, and stop going around it.
When did it become passe for some jerk to stand behind a podium and lie to the American people anyway?
It is as if people expect this crap any more, and don't expect to be told the truth. Since when did that become acceptable? If you bought ten gallons of gas and only got eight, or a pound of meat and only got twelve ounces, or a liter of wine and only got 750ml, you'd pitch a fit.
Yet we let our employees (because that's what politicians are) screw us eight ways from Sunday and then reelect them?
Have the American People gone dumber than a post stupid?
If you were cutting those people a paycheck from your business and they were ripping you off like that you'd send them down the road so fast the pavement would catch fire.
EVERY ONE of them promised to repeal the ACA. Trump promised to REPEAL the ACA.
Git 'er done or git gone.