There are no “moderate Republicans.” They will bemoan and furrow their brows in grave concern and talk a lot of shit, but when the rubber hits the road, they will all get in line and support their party in a way that Democrats, when in the majority, are simply not capable of. If they were, maybe we wouldn’t be in this position, but the Democrats were negotiating with Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson while the GOP stayed together on “NO NO NO NO” and Susan Collins and John McCain and all the other mavericks and moderates went right down the line.
There are no “good Republicans.” Not anymore. Not in 2017. If you want to have the kind of representative democracy we had for two hundred years, it’s going to have to be without the GOP. And if you think “well the Senate will take care of this,” consider that the Senate has already blown up the filibuster for one function in the last 90 days. They could easily do it again, and there are fifty-two Republican senators. Who fall in line.
And so your healthcare is in jeopardy again, no matter how well off you are or how good your employee benefits are, so that the Confederate party can exult in how they stuck it to the colored boy at last.
Fuck. You.