{"id":10037,"date":"2019-04-02T07:51:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T11:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10037"},"modified":"2019-04-02T07:52:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T11:52:42","slug":"egregious-tweet-rant-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10037","title":{"rendered":"Egregious tweet rant of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Everybody agrees that ObamaCare doesn\u2019t work. Premiums &amp; deductibles are far too high &#8211; Really bad HealthCare! Even the Dems want to replace it, but with Medicare for all, which would cause 180 million Americans to lose their beloved private health insurance. The Republicans&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1112900816371900418?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;.are developing a really great HealthCare Plan with far lower premiums (cost) &amp; deductibles than ObamaCare. In other words it will be far less expensive &amp; much more usable than ObamaCare. Vote will be taken right after the Election when Republicans hold the Senate &amp; win&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1112903454941474817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;.back the House. It will be truly great HealthCare that will work for America. Also, Republicans will always support Pre-Existing Conditions. The Republican Party will be known as the Party of Great HealtCare. Meantime, the USA is doing better than ever &amp; is respected again!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1112906931868520452?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>By even the dismal, dishonest standards of The Donald, this is an amazing series of tweets.<\/p>\n<p>The first time a Republican uttered the words &#8220;repeal and replace&#8221; &#8212; notice, <i>replace<\/i> &#8212; the undergirding premise of the ACA had been accepted: the government has a responsibility to make affordable health care available to every citizen.  Once the premise of Obamacare had been accepted, it was a fight over the details of <i>how<\/i>, not <i>whether<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>There is plenty of room to fight over whether, and there is plenty of room to fight over how &#8212; but the Republicans conceded the &#8216;whether&#8217; half of that conversation and then, in bad faith, refused to discuss the &#8216;how,&#8217; refused to discuss the inevitable corrections and repairs that would be required for such a huge, sprawling bill.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the First Felon wants to eliminate the ACA outright today, and offers a promise to provide something better in 21-months, though no Republican knows anything about a plan.<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t likely to happen under the government of a corrupt fraud like Trump, but Congress should focus on repairing the ACA, not re-inventing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody agrees that ObamaCare doesn\u2019t work. Premiums &amp; deductibles are far too high &#8211; Really bad HealthCare! 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