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Louie Gohmert: Women Should Be Forced to Give Birth Even if the Baby Is Doomed to Die in Agony

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EPR-radar5/24/2013 1:44:37 pm PDT

re: #238 goddamnedfrank

By the time that happened ACA would be implemented. Repeal of ACA at that point would devastate low income wage earners, taking away a benefit many if not most of them would have been using for at least a year. I know that poorer Republicans are good at voting against their best interest, but it’s usually only when those interests are hypothetical and don’t pay for their children’s necessary surgeries.

Granted a shocking number of people are stupid enough that they fundamentally misunderstand the very tax code they’ve paid into their entire lives, but I have hope that once the tangible benefits of health care coverage start to sink in it’ll be damn near impossible for any future congress and administration to repeal it.

Solid points. However, I would add that GOP opposition to these kinds of programs never really goes away. Political reality may prevent outright repeal, but there are other ways to kill things.

Prior to 9/11/01, the main agenda item for the Bushies was killing Social Security (and possibly Medicare as well) by privatizing it.