What is going to happen after the midterm elections when the Dems take the house and senate?
...you mean The House.. Finally, a check on runaway greed! ...and maybe some investigations. The House, and Tip O’Neill kept Reagan in check. Handing ‘everything’ over to the party of religion, war & greed was as dumb as it gets...
When the Democrats last ‘had everything’ (including a 60% majority in the Senate), we got a path to health care! With the filthy Republicans (breaking Senate rules in order to need only 50%) - they nearly killed health care… I can not think of a more striking difference, or need ~
The ACA is also runaway greed. Obamacare is a Republican-devised mandate to buy private insurance which still leaves millions uninsured. Just look at Obama’s donors and you’ll see why he decided to keep a for-profit, rapacious middle man between patient and doctor.
@Marz ...and if you’re certain of that.. you should also know Obama was old enough to have witnessed what happened to the Democrats after Hillary Clinton proposed a ‘European style’ health care for all plan.. The Filthy R’s and their Corporate backers sunk it, even running ads against it.
So, Obama proposed to both, the filthy R’s & their corporate backers, ‘Romneycare,’ a compromise. It worked … heading toward a national single payer plan .. ten to a dozen years out. What did the filthy R’s and their radical racist contingent do? - fight to kill it! ..telling ignorant America how they had a replacement plan.
Don’t know how politically astute you feel, but Obama was light years ahead of you, Hillary too.. And if the ACA is ‘a republican plan,’ what’s been the republican’s motivation for killing it? Answer: it was going to lead us to ‘universal health care’ and a ‘single-payer system’ … no more mega-profits for the US Healthcare Industry.
VOTE Republicans Out of Office!
With a Democrat majority, we will resist Trump and Republican goals to gut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid for tax cuts for the very wealthy.
Hopefully, we'll get progress on education, protecting the environment, health care, immigration, civil rights, and reasonable gun control.
This may have to wait until after the 2020 presidential election.
A girl can dream.
Well now, and to think girls used to dream about their prince coming to wake them up with a kiss!
...we’ve enough immigration ..and civil rights can become ‘voting rights,’ but I gave your dreams a thumbs up anyway
And what about the frustration of half the population if they don't? The main driving force seems to be the metoo movement but I'm not certain that is enough to win. Perhaps there is an undercurrent eager for change that is not being shown in the media but who knows! One side has to lose and how will they deal with it?
the ones who lose will suffer dreadfully because their medicare and social security will be protected, they won't lose their health insurance after all, their farms will begin to be profitable again because the tariffs will be reversed, and maybe we can even get trump and pence impeached (after january), which means we'll have a president who doesn't snuggle up to dictators and alienate our best allies. what a horrible fate. i feel so sorry for the losers.
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@genessa It gets curiouser and curiouser (more curious, even) So the reason people voted for Trump was because the Democratic government was stymied by the right. Recognising this, the voters knew they had to vote for those who stymied the government. They knew the right had ruined their Democratic paradise so they decided to vote the right in so that they could really destroy it. Gosh, I remember it and I wasn't even there!