The Democrats were furious Monday over eight senators who caved to support a deal to end the government shutdown that does not include the Affordable Care Act subsidies their party had spent weeks fighting for.
The offending lawmakers include Democratic Senators Dick Durbin, Tim Kaine, Jacky Rosen, John Fetterman, Catherine Cortez Masto, Maggie Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen, and independent Senator Angus King, who claimed that they’d ensured a Senate vote on extending the tax credits. Their capitulation comes after House Speaker Mike Johnson insisted for weeks that he wouldn’t promise them a vote on anything, and even if he does follow through with a vote, it’s unlikely such a measure will pass the House.
Democratic lawmakers slammed their colleagues for forfeiting health care coverage for an estimated 5.1 million Americans by 2034 and increasing premiums across the marketplace.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders railed against the deal while speaking before the Senate Sunday. “If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the Affordable Care Act,” he said. “For certain groups of people, it will be a tripling and a quadrupling of their premiums. There are people who will now be paying 50 percent of their limited incomes for health care. Does anybody in the world think that makes sense?”
I contacted my democratic representative.
If you didn’t do the same, you have no right to complain.
I have homes in NYC and Florida, and my Reps are AOC and Max Frost, whom I know personally. I don’t have to call them, I know they’re on it.
I’m not wasting my time calling the other dickheads like Schmuckie Chuck or Convicted Criminal Fraudster Rock Scott. Fuck those traitors, they know what I want, and they don’t care. My time is better spent on social media, spreading the hate for MAGA and their cowardly Democratic lapdogs.
Wow, what an exclusive circle of friends you belong to! You’re in a very rare position. You’re luck to have these powerful tools and it’s really too bad you’re not willing to use them to improve the lives of the other people in your life. If I was rubbing elbows with AOC and Max Frost I wouldn’t be bragging about it on Lemmy, I’d be sitting with them to discuss progress. You’re either lying about who you know, or you’re lazy and selfish. Pick.
They are already doing the things they should be doing, and I’m not going to waste their time telling them to keep doing the things they are already doing. They aren’t weak Schmuck Schumer-style Dems. You think they’re just laying around, waiting for me to put a boot up their ass to get going? Or they need to have policy discussions with me to know what to do?
Like I said, my time is better spent online, convincing people like you to pull their heads out of their asses.
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What?