Speaker of the House Paul Ryan was in full dark emo mode, and Republicans were talking about plane crashes all because millions of people will get to keep their health care.
At a closed-door conference meeting with House Republicans hours after Sen. John McCain scuttled perhaps the last best hope of repealing Obamacare, Ryan read an excerpt from “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,†a song about sailors drowning in a 1975 shipwreck. He likened the tune to what he deemed the Senate’s tragic failure to repeal Obamacare.
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“The House did its job… The Senate needs to deliver,†said Rep. Steve Russell (R-Okla.), on his way into the morning meeting. “We’re all on this plane, and if it crashes, we all go down together.â€
House Republicans are comparing people getting to keep their health insurance to fatal shipwrecks and plane crashes. There is something sick about Republican members of Congress mourning over millions not facing the peril of being ill and uninsured.
Republicans have lost all touch with reality. They are not interested in the problems or concerns of the American people, and the best way to understand how little they care is to realize that Paul Ryan and his House Republicans are sad that more Americans won’t potentially die from a lack of coverage.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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