Members stevenkesslar Posted February 26 Members Posted February 26 It’s the Health Care, Stupid. Forget DOGE. Republicans are playing with political fire as they move to gut Medicaid. Quote Now consider what Republicans will begin voting on in the House this week: a vast domestic policy agenda that could include huge cuts to Medicaid, a cornerstone of the nation’s health care safety net, to the tune of more than $800 billion over the coming decade. That’s what the GOP should really be worried about. This just in. The Republican Party is not the party of the working class. Yup, you heard it here first. In order to be a centrist working class party, Republicans actually have to be a centrist working class party. Going after Obamacare in 2017 and Medicaid now is a betrayal of Trump working class voters who wanted lower prices. They will get less affordable health care instead. As that article details, there are moderate Republican House members who represent centrist working class districts. And they would like the Republican Party to be a centrist working class party. Oh well. Better luck next time. This is playing out just like 2017. The Republican Party is run by billionaire special interests who want tax cuts for themselves. And destruction of consumer protection and safety standards they don't like, like with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau holding Wall Street accountable. Steve Bannon can talk all he wants about a populist working class party. How long did that last in 2017? Did Bannon get his tax increase on the rich to help the working class? Nope. They gave huge tax breaks to the Republican special interest donors and tried to kill Obamacare. The momentum is all on Trump's side right now. And I'm glad. In a few months all these moderate Republicans will be very nicely gutted and bled out. They may be the walking dead for another year, like in 2017. But the billionaire fat cats like Musk and the right wing ideologues will do the throat slitting. Democrats don't even have to lift a finger. California may have been the canary in the coal mine in 2024, oddly enough. We ejected three Republican House members who had struggled to keep power for a few terms. All three districts were centrist and disproportionately minority districts. All three were swept out because they couldn't defend what Trump's Republicans actually do, but don't say. Quote
