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Monday, June 15, 2015

To Fix America Let's Pledge: No More Bushes

     Jeb announced his candidacy today and it's no accident that the name of his campaign is exactly that: simply Jeb. 

     http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/on-the-eve-of-a-presidential-run-jeb-bush-becomes-just-jeb/2015/06/14/87878632-12d0-11e5-9518-f9e0a8959f32_story.html

      He tacitly acknowledges the mood of the electorate for NO MORE BUSHES! In a day when he announced his campaign the hashtag that is trending is exactly that: a demand for no more Bushes. 

     https://twitter.com/hashtag/NoMoreBushes?src=hash

     It's kind of like the Hippocratic Oath. If you want to help your patients, if you have any hope of actually healing anyone, then first do no harm.  Similarly if America has any hope than it must first be absolutely clear that it will elect No More Bushes! 

     We have hit an impasse in American politics that everything the GOP does simply makes things worse. For itself, but worse for the country. It has no vision at all other than scorched earth opposition to what the President has done. 

     It's strategy in the future is just more the same: gerrymandering, voter id laws, and when they get in office, doing nothing but saying no. 

     For instance look at the ACA and the coming SJC decision. Once again Hillary Clinton has put the lie to those who claim she isn't telling us where she stands. She came out strongly last week for early voting and the end to voter id laws that are all about voter suppression. 

    http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/06/hillarys-automatic-voter-registration.html

    Now she has a plan to actually fix things if the SJC makes the wrong call on ACA whereas the GOP 'fix' actually just makes things worse. 

   "Clinton may be preparing to go on offense against Republicans if the Court rules for the challengers. She is dismissing the lawsuit as a cynical effort to undermine the ACA’s basic coverage guarantee — telegraphing a very critical response to such a ruling — and signaling aggressive engagement if and when the debate turns to what should happen next."

    "Republicans appear divided over how to respond if the Court guts subsidies. Some Congressional Republicans are floating plans that would temporarily extend subsidies. But they are now saying they won’t produce any consensus plan until after the Court rules. Meanwhile, it’s not clear that Republicans can pass any such consensus plan, because conservatives may revolt at doing anything to keep Obamacare going. It’s also unclear whether GOP leaders would want to buck conservatives and pass a temporary fix with the help of a lot of Democrats. Beyond all this, the GOP fix plans appear likely to do more harm to Obamacare than good."

   "Clinton says she will offer a fix of her own — probably some kind of simple rewrite of the disputed legislative language — while calling for the universal coverage guarantee to be restored. In other words, she would actually fix the problem created by the Court ruling. This could contrast sharply with the GOP post-King approach, which, judging by recent GOP rhetoric, will likely be saddled with a tortured, incoherent storyline: Republicans will blame the loss of coverage for millions on Obamacare itself, while pledging to fix the problem even as their “solution” undermines the law further."
     http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/06/15/morning-plum-hillary-signals-aggressive-attack-on-republicans-over-obamacare-lawsuit/
    As GOPers do nothing but make things worse the only solution is not to elect them and Jeb, their likely candidate, would be another disaster like his brother if not worse. 

    

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