Day: August 19, 2015

Jonathan Chait: “It is tempting to treat the lack of specifics in the Republican health-care plans as a problem of details to be filled it. But it is not a side problem. It is the entire problem. They will not finance real insurance for the people who have gotten it under Obamacare, nor will they face up to the actual costs they’re willing to impose on people. The party is doctrinally opposed to every available method to make insurance available to people who can’t afford it. They have spent six years promising to come up with an alternative plan, and they haven’t done it, because they can’t.” Indeed. And it is because they do not believe healthcare is a right. They believe it is a privilege for those who can afford it. If you are poor and sick, then you die. If you are rich and sick, then you don't. That is the Republican healthcare plan.

Just watch Bernie's plain spoken hammer of common sense and decency smash the media memes and tropes the reports want to prop up.

I can't say that I'm sad to see Walker on the ropes. He is a evil, sick MF'er with big money backers, a gloss of respectability, and the ability to charm the feeble minded thereby making him one of the tougher GOP opponents in the general election. Well, if current trends continue, it looks like Walker will continue to plague Wisconsin with his "tax cuts work" idiocy. From a peak of .40, Walker is now trading at .15 on Predictit.