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Deja Vu

6/29/2017

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Eight years ago President Obama and the Democrats were working to reform health care. Now President Trump and the Republicans are doing the same thing. They have radically different aims but seem to be following a similar methodology.

Both ignored polls that showed the public strongly disapproved what they were doing. Neither kept the public well informed. The Republican Senate proposal was done in secret while President Obama repeatedly lied by saying people could keep their insurance. Nancy Pelosi famously said that they had to pass it in order to know what’s in it.  Both manipulated the legislative process (Republicans are trying to do it entirely within the budget proposal). Both cut special deals to attract votes. At least Republicans haven’t done anything as blatant as the Cornhusker Kickback.
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I think both are taking the same approach because they desperately want to pass a bill. Getting it through is the easy part. Trying to administer it and sell it to the people is much more difficult. This was a total disaster for the Democrats. We will have to wait and see what happens to the Republicans. Right now we’re not even sure there will be a bill.
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    Hi! My name is Dave. I'm in my 60s and live in Indiana. I'll write about whatever is on my mind but most posts will be political. I'm a centrist who thinks both sides are on the wrong path.

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At long last this idiotic shutdown is over. Hopefully cooler heads prevail and it doesn’t start up again.

The real story is that 800,000 government workers are back on the job and many millions of people are no longer inconvenienced.

Unfortunately, that is not the story we are hearing in the media. Their story is about how Speaker Pelosi beat President Trump. He got himself into this mess. She decided that all that mattered was winning. The harm done to the people involved was of no concern whatsoever. A good leader puts the good of the people over political gamesmanship,

it would be nice to think that both people have learned their lesson and will try to do what is best for the
country. I sure wouldn’t bet on it.
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