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rurallib

(63,220 posts)
Fri Sep 22, 2017, 06:57 AM Sep 2017

No surprise here: Ernst "leans" yes on ACA repeal

What a load of crap she is selling. She votes how Charles and David Koch tell her to vote and they want the ACA dead as a doornail.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2017/09/21/joni-ernst-leaning-yes-graham-cassidy-health-care-bill/686388001/

And of course Grassley does. And of course Reynolds does.

Ernst tries to make it sound like she cares. My guess is that subconsciously she is really religious and knows that in her religion she will be ticketed for hell for voting for a bill that will lead to early death for millions.
What a load of crap.

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47of74

(18,470 posts)
1. If Charles and David told her to vote for a bill establishing concentration camps for certain groups
Fri Sep 22, 2017, 07:09 AM
Sep 2017

....she would vote for it without hesitation.

madaboutharry

(41,364 posts)
2. I write her letters when these important votes
Fri Sep 22, 2017, 07:11 AM
Sep 2017

come up and get back form letters claiming she is looking carefully at all sides of the issue....blah blah blah ....

Ernst is a hack. She wouldn't know an independent thought if it was staring her in the face.

rurallib

(63,220 posts)
4. I don't know how many calls I have made and letters I have written
Fri Sep 22, 2017, 07:19 AM
Sep 2017

but the response is just 'quit bothering us. She's doing what she is told to do so there.'

Then she plays it up for the cameras and the audiences.

Her Washington office doesn't even answer anymore. You get a picture that they just raise the finger when the phone rings.

awesomerwb1

(4,577 posts)
5. Why isn't that part more widely brought up by Dems?
Fri Sep 22, 2017, 08:41 AM
Sep 2017

The fact that the Kochs(and a few others) are demanding this agenda or the money pipeline gets shut off?

IMO that's a huge deal. I wish we had more Dems, not necessarily currently in office, but others (ex: Howard Dean) talking more about this as much as possible, in as many channels as possible.
These a-holes are putting campaign money ahead of their constituents some of whom will suffer greatly from this, and some who might even die.

rurallib

(63,220 posts)
6. Unfortunately our hands are out also
Fri Sep 22, 2017, 08:56 AM
Sep 2017

campaigns cost big bucks.

There are some that do and media won't report such remarks.

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