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'17 Specials & '18 Midterms Thread

The Lesser Part of Valor

While the reactions of Gianforte’s Republican colleagues in Congress ranged from condemnation to justification and even humor, many voices in the conservative media eagerly defended the assault (though there were notable exceptions). Pundits on Fox News explained that the California-born, Pennsylvania-raised Gianforte had merely given Jacobs a taste of “Montana justice.” Geraldo Rivera, of Brooklyn, New York, explained that Montanans “are no strangers to the more robust way of living.” The conservative pundit Laura Ingraham, who hails from the mean streets of Glastonbury, Connecticut, asked, “What would most Montana men do if ‘body slammed’ for no reason by another man?”

Physically attacking journalists for asking questions is cowardly. Every single person who defends it is engaging in an act of cowardice. The notion that Gianforte was merely channeling the rugged frontier culture of Western mountain men when he attacked someone who asked him a question is laughable and patronizing.

It is not 1856, but these are the politics of a false valor forged by fear. It is the undercurrent of a politics that defends grown men who stalk black teenagers in the night and then gun them down when they raise their hands in their own defense; it is the politics that rationalizes Ohio police shooting a 12-year-old boy with a toy gun without so much as a chance to surrender; it is the politics of mass deportation and Muslim bans and Blue Lives Matter bills. It is the political logic of frightened people who need to tell themselves they are brave. This is not valor; it is the celebration of violence against those who cannot respond in kind.
 
Based on these responses Trump is going to win by even more in 2020. Gianforte will be governor if he wants it.
 
 
Posted on Facebook by a buddy of mine from GA-6:

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Montana's body-slamming new Congressman is making fundraising calls for the Republican candidate in GA's Sixth District (mine).
Suggested slogan: "Give 'til it hurts!"
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Dean Heller, GOP senator from Nevada, says that he supports a Medicaid expansion phase out of the ACA. The expansion covers 200,000 Nevadans since the law took effect.

Doesn't seem smart politically.
 
Oh, I think the plan is to let/force the ACA to languish and become so dysfunctional (and hurtful) that THEN the Pubs can (hopefully in a politically successful way) offer a plan that relies on crappier insurance for cheaper and falsely claim to have lowered the cost of healthcare. Winners? The wealthy and the healthy. Losers, the poor, the sick, health care institutions (and their vast workforce and the local economies that depend on them), and to a lesser extent insurance companies.
 
Well that's dumb. They were elected to repeal and replace immediately. They're going to be blamed for a slow burn. They're in charge.
 
Well, they already had the ceremony after the house bill passed. So the image is, it's done. Pubs are going to try like hell to blame "obamacare"/obama for the deterioration of the ACA they are largely causing and to cast themselves in the health care savior role. I mean, Trump has proved that image counts more than substance. Why not keep going with it?
 
So what does a member of the House of Representative do for community service besides his job?
 
What we learned from the Virginia primary

Two stories: (1) high turnout for the Dems; (2) establishment Republican expected to win by 20 pts won a surprisingly narrow race against an ardent Trump supporter who referred to his opponent as a "cuckservative."

Any insight into the races from our VA posters?
 
Sure. Could he do a week without pay though?
 
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