Yep. I used to think I was an independent but quit because I saw it wasn’t helping and it was actually doing the opposite of what I wanted. I decided it was better to pick the side that is most aligned with what you believe.
Of course, a decade later and I am firmly in the side I went with. I look back and cannot believe the dumb stuff I used to think and how I used to vote. Man, I was a dipshit in my 20’s! :smack: And a dipshit in more than just political ideologies.
Did they offer any response, or just say “Thank you for your call. click”?
Bravo! Well said!
Ding-dong, it just may be dead.
McCain to vote no on Graham-Cassidy.
All comes down to Collins, who is leaning no.
Hooray!
Fingers crossed that this opens some floodgates.
And that I don’t have to finish the issue brief I’m writing. 
“Jimmy Kimmel triumphs over President Donald Trump in healthcare policy fight is now a real headline in 2017”
One of my colleagues came bursting out of her office with a screeching “MCCAIN IS A NOOOOOOOOOOOO! I saw it on TWIIIIIITTERRRRRRRR!” That’s how we all heard about it here. Good times. 
Yep, and the NYT confirms. McCain comes through!
Your issue brief should just be this hyperlink: Hamilton You Don't Have the Votes - YouTube
Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there! That’s awesome!
As someone who was legitimately and immediately gonna get burned by a repeal, my rum-drinking tonight may have just shifted from “sorrow-drowning mopey face” to “shit-eating-grin face.”
Why is McCain the tipping point? They need three Republican votes against to kill it, right? McCain, Collins and who else?
Ryan, because it doesn’t screw enough people hard enough.
Rand Paul. The one named after Ayn Rand.
Okay, that’s what I thought, and jeez I wouldn’t be comfortable depending on Paul’s vote until the month is over.
Edit: LOL, my ability to distinguish Paul Ryan and Rand Paul is so bad I don’t even notice when somebody else uses the wrong name…
Rand Paul has been pretty definitive over the last few days. “I won’t be bribed or bullied.”
Pursuant to my authority as Queen of Romania, I hereby issue an exemption to jsgoddess. Egotist te absolvo, go, and sin some more.
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Dammit, It’s Friday and I get the house assholes names screwed up with the Senate assholes.
NYT Article: “Behind New Obamacare Repeal Vote: ‘Furious’ G.O.P. Donors”
OK, so a majority of the public does not want the ACA to be repealed. Yet the GOP donors most definitely do.
What exactly to big donors like the Kochs GET out of this? I assume it is money. ** How does the repeal give them more cash in their pockets?
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** I am going to operate out of the assumption that money drives these big donors, rather than evil thoughts like “we want to see the poor people dead”