There are no \u201cmoderate Republicans.\u201d 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\u2019t be in this position, but the Democrats were negotiating with Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson while the GOP stayed together on \u201cNO NO NO NO\u201d and Susan Collins and John McCain and all the other mavericks and moderates went right down the line.<\/p>\n
There are no \u201cgood Republicans.\u201d Not anymore. Not in 2017. If you want to have the kind of representative democracy we had for two hundred years, it\u2019s going to have to be without the GOP. \u00a0And if you think \u201cwell the Senate will take care of this,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Fuck. You.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There are no \u201cmoderate Republicans.\u201d 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, … <\/p>\n