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And we thought Dino Rossi sucked. The Republican solution to losing is to pick somebody worse. Oh, and by the way, it was the Republicans that gave us the collapse of the housing market in the first place.
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We may want to pay attention to what Matthew Schauenburg is doing in Wisconsin right now... (Google him, he is on hunger strike because of Scott Walker)
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He tipped his hand when he signed on to the anti-Health Care lawsuit w/ all the other batshit crazy State AGs.
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The teabagger "party" is dying. They used up all their steam getting a bunch of republicans-as-usual elected. I don't see them rallying again for the next election.

The corporations who made them will find a different foil next time.
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@3: I haven't been following this closely, but is the lawsuit anti-health-care or anti-handout-to-health-care-insurance-companies? I'm all for universal, single-payer, health care. But I don't want to be forced to do business with insurance companies.
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@5,

His lawsuit seeks to toss out the entire Affordable Care Act as unconstitutional. Pre-existing conditions, extending insurance to children, everything.
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jesus fucking fuck that is scary

get this douchebag out of office asap

holmes too
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@5: Goldy, would it be possible for him to instead toss out only the parts that require everyone to do business with private insurers?
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er, @6
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@8,

No. The other reforms don't work without the mandate. Otherwise, nobody would buy insurance until they're sick.
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@8,

But let's be clear. You don't have to buy the insurance. The ACA provides a tax credit for those who do buy the insurance. If you don't buy insurance, you end up paying a little more in federal taxes.
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McKenna used to be a moderate, pragmatic, kind of republican. He's clearly taken a hard turn to the right over the last few years in order to appeal to the fanatical base of the party. Ten years or so ago, I had some amount of respect for him, and could see working with him, even if he wasn't my first choice. Now I can't tell if he is truly more conservative, or is merely pandering to the far-right fringe. He's now become completely unpredictable, which is dangerous. I've lost what little respect I ever had for him.
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Despite their public bluster, the Republicans(the party and office holders) do not actually oppose insurance mandates, it's a mandatory wealth transfer to a corporate entity. Every proposed Republican/conservative health plan contains mandates to pay a private insurance company. (Compare Obama's reform with the Heritage Foundation's proposals of the 1990s.)

What they truly oppose from the health insurance reform law is the
1. Removing pre-existing condition clauses
2. Spending 80% of premiums on healthcare
3. Subsidizing premiums
4. Allowing young adults on parents' policies
etc...
Those are the points Republicans are targeting in the congress and lawsuits. The HHS(Obama and Sebelius) are handing out waivers left and right for 1 & 2. #3 won't survive our deficit mania. Enjoy #4 while you can!
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If McKenna is aligning himself with tea baggers and union busters he might as well cancel his campaign now.
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Dang you're good, Goldy.
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Dang you are good, Goldy! Thanks for the kickass reporting.
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Oh, I'm sure that 'Tax Day Tea Party' gathering on the Eastside will be brainstorming ways to get GE to pony up their fair share of corporate taxes.... I am just sure of it....

http://tinyurl.com/4hgu8xh
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I assume someone from the Stranger will be at the rally with a video camera in hand, making sure we can quote his own words back to him when he "moderates his positions" later on while running in the general.
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You would think that if there were actually such a thing as a "moderate Republican", Washington State would be a perfect place to try to establish a foothold for them. Moronic fringe aside, I believe there are many Republican (or Republican-leaning) Washingtonians who would actually flock to someone who didn't cater to the idiot fringe. But then again, I really don't see how anyone with even a minimum of self-respect can identify with the GOP anymore.

Oh well. Like I have many times said, Republicans are dreadful people. Let their "leader" tag along behind their most loutish and clean up after them. Better him than me.
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@17 No doubt!

US Uncut, it's like the Tea Party if they could do math.

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