# House Republicans Fly Home to Bask In Loving Adulation **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 4, 2017, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-republicans-fly-home-to-bask-in-loving-adulation/785881 "2017-05-04T23:34:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-republicans-fly-home-to-bask-in-loving-adulation/785881/21 "2017-05-06T16:44:11Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > Sadly there will be some adulation. Maybe 20-30% of the country hates the ACA, largely because a black democrat passed it, and they make up the base of the GOP. Those people will congratulate the reps for taking the bill away. All the suffering it causes doesn’t matter to them because most don’t think or understand if/how it will affect them negatively. They just know their team ‘won’. Maybe not. [Manchin to Trump](http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/04/obamacare-repeal-vote-joe-manchin-trump-237979): “I said, ‘Mr. President, 172,000 West Virginians got insurance for the first time,’” Manchin said. "They’ve got something they never had before. They don’t know how they got it, they don’t know who gave it to them, they don’t know the Democrats, nothing about, ‘It’s Obamacare.’ They don’t know any of that. All they know is they’ve got it.” “And you know what? They voted for you, Mr. President,” he said. “They’re going to know who took it away from them.” ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-republicans-fly-home-to-bask-in-loving-adulation/785881/22 "2017-05-06T17:10:46Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > “And you know what? They voted for you, Mr. President,” he said. “They’re going to know who took it away from them.” Absolutely true. This will turn back and bite them. 2010 may be entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-republicans-fly-home-to-bask-in-loving-adulation/785881/23 "2017-05-06T21:08:39Z")
It was. Very. So should 2018. And 2020. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-republicans-fly-home-to-bask-in-loving-adulation/785881/24 "2017-05-06T23:15:33Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Absolutely true. This will turn back and bite them. 2010 may be entertaining. > [@silenus](#): > > It was. Very. So should 2018. And 2020. 🙂 Perhaps he’s [Living In The Past](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsCyC1dZiN8). ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-republicans-fly-home-to-bask-in-loving-adulation/785881/25 "2017-05-06T23:49:56Z")
I’m in South Carolina. We’ve invited Tim Scott, Lindsay Graham and my very own Mark Sanford to participate in a Town Hall in Summerville. Curiously, none have accepted the invitation. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2017, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-republicans-fly-home-to-bask-in-loving-adulation/785881/26 "2017-05-07T01:39:33Z")
They’re \*all \*going to be hiking the Appalachian Trail? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2017, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-republicans-fly-home-to-bask-in-loving-adulation/785881/27 "2017-05-07T02:47:24Z")
Why shouldn’t the Republicans go home to celebrate? They just won the War on Health! We should throw them a parade so they get all the credit they deserve and everyone knows their names. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2017, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-republicans-fly-home-to-bask-in-loving-adulation/785881/28 "2017-05-07T04:08:38Z")
Several of the leftish sites I visit are also caught up in the enthusiastic bi-partisan love fest, publishing lists of the honored courageous. Itineraries, when available. A bit early yet, but some claims are made that the guests of honor are reluctant. Modesty, perhaps. Course, these things take planning: the transportation, accommodations, escape routes, that sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2017, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-republicans-fly-home-to-bask-in-loving-adulation/785881/29 "2017-05-07T04:15:43Z")
Body doubles. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-republicans-fly-home-to-bask-in-loving-adulation/785881/30 "2017-05-07T15:24:43Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Perhaps he’s [Living In The Past](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsCyC1dZiN8). I’m rewatching _The West Wing_ (again) because imagining living during that administration is so much more sane than what we are dealing with in reality. Give me an honorable President who lies about his MS any day over a buffoon with delusions of grandeur who lies about what he said yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2017, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-republicans-fly-home-to-bask-in-loving-adulation/785881/31 "2017-05-07T15:32:34Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#): > > David Young’s district includes Des Moines and Ames, so I imagine he’d face a lot of upset constituents if he had meetings. Here’s an update on Iowa’s Honorable Rep. Young: his office has announced that not only will there be no town hall meetings during this week’s recess, the devoted public servant and man of the people does not plan to hold _any_ town halls for the rest of the year. I imagine a campaign contribution might get you a meeting with the Representative, though, so it’s not like he’s _hiding_, per se. That’s a profile in courage, right there. One of my good friends from college has been very active in the Republican Party in central Iowa, and worked hard to help get out the vote for this guy last fall. Makes me sad. (That she’s working so hard for the GOP in general, not just this weaseling by Young.) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2017, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-republicans-fly-home-to-bask-in-loving-adulation/785881/32 "2017-05-07T16:49:16Z")
Busy, busy, people we have in our legislatures. Checks to cash, babies to kill. Babies to kiss! Damn auto-correct… ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-republicans-fly-home-to-bask-in-loving-adulation/785881/33 "2017-05-08T04:05:57Z")
And what baskers they are. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-republicans-fly-home-to-bask-in-loving-adulation/785881/34 "2017-05-08T10:31:22Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Busy, busy, people we have in our legislatures. Checks to cash, babies to kill. Babies to kiss! Damn auto-correct… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-republicans-fly-home-to-bask-in-loving-adulation/785881/35 "2017-05-08T12:40:02Z")
Was this the town hall you were at, **steatopygia**? [GOP rep: ‘Nobody dies because they don’t have access to healthcare’](http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/raul-labrador-town-hall-nobody-dies-access-to-healthcare-obamacare) > [@](#): > > One day after the House passed the American Health Care Act, Labrador faced off with constituents at a town hall at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho, according to the Idaho Statesman. > > One woman stood up and said the GOP bill, which makes major cuts to Medicaid, was essentially telling people to die. > > “That line is so indefensible,” Labrador shot back. **“Nobody dies because they don’t have access to health care**.” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-republicans-fly-home-to-bask-in-loving-adulation/785881/36 "2017-05-08T17:53:44Z")
I saw part of one town hall where there was a senior woman holding the hand of the politician, who went from condescending smile to grim as the woman, still holding his hand, told him what a lying, cheating asshole he was, and how she looked forward to his last day in office, all in a calm, reasonable voice. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-republicans-fly-home-to-bask-in-loving-adulation/785881/37 "2017-05-08T18:48:23Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Was this the town hall you were at, **steatopygia**? > > [GOP rep: ‘Nobody dies because they don’t have access to healthcare’](http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/raul-labrador-town-hall-nobody-dies-access-to-healthcare-obamacare) No, I was at his next appearance several hours later. As far as I know, no one there was aware that he had said that. Most of the questions were healthcare related, but nobody brought that quote up. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-republicans-fly-home-to-bask-in-loving-adulation/785881/38 "2017-05-08T19:49:30Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I saw part of one town hall where there was a senior woman holding the hand of the politician, who went from condescending smile to grim as the woman, still holding his hand, told him what a lying, cheating asshole he was, and how she looked forward to his last day in office, all in a calm, reasonable voice. 😃 I hope it was his mother. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-republicans-fly-home-to-bask-in-loving-adulation/785881/39 "2017-05-08T20:05:59Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I hope it was his mother. Hilarious! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-republicans-fly-home-to-bask-in-loving-adulation/785881/40 "2017-05-08T20:06:45Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I hope it was his mother. No. It was his Grandmother. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-republicans-fly-home-to-bask-in-loving-adulation/785881.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-republicans-fly-home-to-bask-in-loving-adulation/785881.md?page=3)