Zombies, Vampires and Republicans

Zombies, Vampires and Republicans
Some have reportedly seen PowerPoint presentations,
but the “slides are flashed across the screens so quickly that they can hardly be committed to memory.”
Clearly, the goal is to pass legislation that will have devastating effects on tens of millions of Americans without giving
those expected to pass it, let alone the general public, any real chance to understand what they’re voting for.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the American Health Care Act would take coverage away from 23 million Americans,
and send premiums soaring for millions more, especially older workers with relatively low incomes.
And it should have died yet again in the aftermath of the 2013 Obama tax hike — partly expiration of some Bush tax cuts,
partly new taxes to pay for Obamacare — when the economy continued jogging along, adding 200,000 jobs a month.
Ignore Republican lies about how Obamacare was passed: the Affordable Care Act went through extensive discussion,
and Democrats were always very clear about what they were trying to do and how they were trying to do it.
Nonetheless, Republican Senate leaders are now trying to ram through their own version of
the A. H.C. A., one that, all reports suggest, will differ only in minor, cosmetic ways.