Fwd: Repeal And Not Repeal, The Latest Republican Gobbledygook On Health Care

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The only point on which I would take issue with this is the "racial  hatred personified as a policy dispute". The racial hatred is nothing more than the medium of political differentiation - as the writer puts it, "It was never anything other than divisive partisan politics for them". Right. So why put yourself in an untenable position of moral superiority by accusing the other side of racism? Sure there's racism. Sure most of them are racist, and most of us are not. Sure Hitler's being rehabilitated. But what's essential is the division itself. And I'm not sure that the point isn't to maintain that division, so that the Democrat power structure can take over again in four years. Or am I wrong? Should I say "so that the Democratic Party can renew and transform itself and become once again the party of the people"?

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Subject:	Repeal And Not Repeal, The Latest Republican Gobbledygook On Health Care
Date:	Fri, 3 Feb 2017 21:05:56 -0800
From:	The Pen <the...@peaceteam.net>
To:	leste...@free.fr

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After vehemently swearing up and down for 6 years that they would 
repeal (as in trash) so-called Obamacare and replace it with 
something better, now that the American people have finally given 
them the power to actually do it they've got such a case of cold feet 
they're frozen to the floor. 

It was self evident that they had no plan, not even any practical 
better ideas. So within 2 weeks "repeal and replace" is tossed over 
the side (instead of Obamacare), and now the expression "repeal and 
repair" is coming out of their mouths in unison as a talking point. 

Uh-wuh?!? 

It would seem the only thing they feel they need to replace is a 
single word, the word "replace" itself, and to replace it with utter 
nonsense. It was adorable watching Frank Luntz, GOP languaging top 
gun, twist himself into a pretzel on TV today talking about how this 
was a much better and more accurate framing. 

Uh-wuh?!? 

Well, you'll have to excuse us, because we'd like to think that we 
are fluent speakers of the English language around here (occasional 
typos aside). And either you repeal it or else you do not. You only 
"repair" things you are going to KEEP and preserve. Repeal and not 
repeal? Who could make sense of that other than the most shameless 
hypocrite? 

Indeed, this incredible language incongruity is required because 
having pounded the word "repeal" into our brains for so many years 
they are married to it (for reference see The Defense Of Marriage 
Act). 

So now the viciously ugly truth comes out. 

The Republicans doth protest too much, for 6 years running. They have 
NEVER been against Obamacare, written word for word by a corporate 
health care industry lobbyist, which was itself just recycled 
Romneycare, a right wing idea that originated with the Heritage 
Foundation. No, the only thing they have ever been against was Obama, 
the MAN. It was never anything other than divisive partisan politics 
for them. 

The Republicans by dogma LOVE having corporations control our health 
care, which is what the so-called Affordable Care Act enshrined as 
the law of the land. It's in fact their favorite thing. The whole 
Obamacare hysteria for them was never anything other than racial 
hatred personified as a policy dispute. 

They swore they would never vote for anything that former President 
Obama wanted, even if it was something they had supported in the 
past, for the sole purpose of trying to cripple his presidency. And 
they got lucky that the health care bill turned out to be so 
defective, WITHOUT their corrupt helping hand to push in the wrong 
direction, so that they could have something to rail against 
generically, and win so many elections behind it in the interim. 

But for our part we're going to keep pushing in the right direction, 
and demand that our Democratic representatives in particular line up 
in unison behind Medicare for All, at last. And we're not going to 
stop. There is NO other path to future political victories. Admitting 
that the Republicans were right, when on their own terms they 
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