Boehner and McConnell release their vision for new congress

[Philly]

[Indy]

[Philly]

[Indy]

So they're going to use budget measures as a backdoor route to dismantling Obamacare. That should end well.

What are their plans for rebuilding our infrastructure?

What are their plans for fixing education?

What are their plans for attacking poverty and/or income disparity?

What are their plans for adjusting student loan rates?

What are their plans for placing safeguards on Wall St. to prevent another 2008?

What are their plans for dealing with climate change?

What are their plans for dealing with unemployment?

What are their plans for the middle east?

When are we going to be out of Afghanistan?

Best of all, since they want to terminate Obamacare, what are they offering in its place?

Thanks.

[Philly]

Obama will have to give them something for anything in infrastructure.

They favor local control over education.

They want to cut taxes and decrease business regulations to "grow wealth and opportunity".

Some nonsense about "big education" and the national debt probably.

They think the government caused the 2008 problems not Wall Street so you know smaller govt blah blah blah.

They don't believe in climate change.

Tax cuts less regulation etc to help the "job creators".

Bomb the shit out of everyone, probably.

How the f**k should I know?


You're welcome.

[Indy]

So in other words the same old, steaming plate of nothing. What a surprise.

But then again, they're not here to govern. So we can't be shocked. They're here to "stop" things.

[Philly]

[Indy]

[John Galt]

[Philly]

I'm interested in seeing what the GOP thinks they can put on the table for the ACA. I'm sure someone in DC is already floating a plan that gets rid of the individual mandate and I also believe Obama has to say no to that as the whole thing kind of falls apart without it. I think they can make some changes around the edges like some of the employer requirements and changing the threshold in regards to things like # of employees etc. the thing for Obama is he can obviously veto anything that's an outright repeal of the ACA, and likewise he's the obstructionist if he refuses to sign anything changing the ACA but he needs to be careful he's not giving the whole thing away one piece at a time.