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They Own This
Author: BobR
Date: 11/12/2025 13:34:43
There's been an outpouring of anger against the Democratic senators who "caved" to Republicans over the stop-gap funding bill. This will go down in history as the longest government shutdown ever. Most people have felt it in some way, but the blame has fallen on both parties.
The common narrative was that this was a game of chicken between the parties, with the American people's very lives on the line as they ride in the passenger seat. The notion that the Dems "caved" would seem to indicate that the Republicans won.
But did they?
With enough senators voting for the (amended, as always) bill, the shutdown now rests completely in the Republicans' hands. They completely own it now. They also completely own any disruption in American's healthcare:
(bold-face mine...)
And in "a broken clock is right twice a day" twist:
So tRump's "concept of a plan" is to send the subsidy money to the insured instead of the insurers... even though the insured will just turn around and send it to the insurers anyway.
WOW - GREAT PLAN!
They have nothing. In fact - they have less than nothing. They have a looming disaster that can only be resolved in the short-term by continuing the subsidies. Just like with immigration law, we have a need for a long-term strategy which needs to be initiated now. The Republicans have no clue (and even less desire) to resolve it, and the American people are noticing.
Tick-tock, Republicans
Day 296... 1163 to go.
The common narrative was that this was a game of chicken between the parties, with the American people's very lives on the line as they ride in the passenger seat. The notion that the Dems "caved" would seem to indicate that the Republicans won.
But did they?
With enough senators voting for the (amended, as always) bill, the shutdown now rests completely in the Republicans' hands. They completely own it now. They also completely own any disruption in American's healthcare:
It’s the Trump ship that never sails.
The president was back at it on Monday, promising an imminent solution to America’s growing health care crisis — on which he has repeatedly failed to deliver in the past.
“I tell you, we’re going to be working on that very hard over the next short period of time, where the people get the money,” President Donald Trump said, referring specifically to Americans thrown into crisis by expiring enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies. “We’re talking about trillions and trillions of dollars, where the people get the money,” he added, without giving details about a vague idea to send cash to affected policyholders to replace subsidies while bypassing insurance firms.
Trump’s off-the-cuff answer was a typical example of the waffle he sometimes conjures to escape a jam in a photo-op. But he could not disguise the downside of his “win” in the government shutdown, which looks set to end after Democrats failed to secure their top demand: the extension of those enhanced Obamacare subsidies.
Trump and Republicans once again own the issue of health care, with millions of citizens — not just those on ACA plans — afflicted by rising premiums and high deductibles against the backdrop of a wider cost-of-living crisis. And just as in his first term, Trump lacks a comprehensive, detailed plan to bring relief to citizens who lack health care, who can’t afford the plans they have or who know that the loss of a job could leave them without any coverage at all.
And in "a broken clock is right twice a day" twist:
[Marjorie Taylor Greene] broke ranks early in the shutdown to highlight ACA insurance premiums for her family that she said would double in price due to expiring subsidies. While no fan of the ACA, she lashed out at her own party. “Not a single Republican in leadership talked to us about this or has given us a plan to help Americans deal with their health insurance premiums DOUBLING!!!” Greene wrote on X in October.
So tRump's "concept of a plan" is to send the subsidy money to the insured instead of the insurers... even though the insured will just turn around and send it to the insurers anyway.
WOW - GREAT PLAN!
They have nothing. In fact - they have less than nothing. They have a looming disaster that can only be resolved in the short-term by continuing the subsidies. Just like with immigration law, we have a need for a long-term strategy which needs to be initiated now. The Republicans have no clue (and even less desire) to resolve it, and the American people are noticing.
Tick-tock, Republicans
Day 296... 1163 to go.
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Raine on 11/12/2025 14:57:21
Raine on 11/12/2025 14:57:21
Delay, Deny, Defend.
That's the plan. The same plan that got the CEO of Humana killed.
That's the plan. The same plan that got the CEO of Humana killed.