How do Republicans feel about Reagan’s position on gun control?
Speaking of Reagan, @zecarlo…(and I ask this seriously…)
I wonder if Trump will replace Reagan as the Greatest President ever in the mind of many Conservatives?
He already has, just ask him.
I think that the point was the democrat platform is getting farther from the middle… i.e. more left of center.
Seriously? He took over healthcare and student loans and nobody batted an eyelash.
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No one batted an eyelash on Obamacare? It was essentially all Republicans talked about. I believe repeal and replace was said about two million times until they got the power to do that and then healthcare was hard.
Rightly so. It created a brand new permanent entitlement that will never go away.
But @Mufasa is using lynch mob imagery to allege that opposition to Obama was solely racial and irrational. Nobody got violent over Obamacare… taking over a huge chunk of the economy. Antifa is violent over deregulation and deportations (the camps started under O btw).
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That depends. If he wins again, it’s possible. If he doesn’t, he won’t.
No change on my favourite 3 of your presidents anyway:
- Lincoln
- Washington
- Eisenhower
My bottom 3 hasn’t altered either.
- Woodrow Wilson
- Woodrow Wilson
- Woodrow Wilson
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Not to pile on here, but didn’t the GOP take every legislative branch, dozens of governor’s mansions, and myriad state legislatures because of the O-care backlash?
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Some parts I certainly hope don’t go away. Some parts I hope do or get improved. It certainly could go away but some parts of it are extremely popular. If we go back to how we used to deal with pre-existing conditions you’re going to have a hard time passing it.
I don’t know if he intended to use the phrase in the manner you’re saying or not. I don’t want to speak for him but sometimes I say things like “they used to hang you for that” and I don’t mean them as racial. But maybe I should shy away from that.
Any “entitlement” could go away it’s just they happen to typically be pretty popular. It’s not as if legislation like a big tax cut is easy to reverse either. Especially if the biggest beneficiaries are wealthy people who can fight it.
But all policies can be removed if that’s something the American people want to do.
I read his post as Republicans being on Obama for certain things that they have ignored with Trump. Golf was a big deal but it isn’t now that Trump does it even more. He was weak for even thinking about speaking with our enemies and Trump’s good friends with dictators. The debt used to matter and now it’s just something we can default on.
The problem is they told everyone how the first they were going to do is replace Obamacare but never actually thought about how they wanted to do that.
I think some had workable plans, but it was never a unified front. The same is actually true of O-care.
My friend’s Grandfather had a good quote about US socialized healthcare (New Hampshire man)
‘Socialized healthcare is like a steak, the problem is that, when we do it, we are going to be made to eat it in one bite’
The problem for the GOP and healthcare is that they criticized the entire concept as commie death panel slavery. How do you go from that to, “then again, maybe we have a plan?”
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True enough.
Yep. But
- The entitlement programs stand.
- Nobody got lynched, as @mufasa suggests would’ve happened.
C’mon, @Basement_Gainz…you know good and well that the terminology I used was not literal. The anger and opposition that President Obama faced, however, was real.
They did…and continue to do so.
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I would add that it wasn’t entirely undeserved either. Some morlocks hated him for racial reasons, but there was plenty of reasons to dislike his policy positions too.
Thank you, @H_factor.
That’s how it was meant to be read.