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Joseph Britt
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Thread. Another #Wisconsin story. Republican state legislators are seeking to follow through on a campaign gimmick. Briefly, they back a lawsuit to scrap the Affordable Care Act & its protections for people w/pre-existing medical conditions, and seek to cover themselves with...
... state legislation that mentions protection of people w/pre-existing medical conditions. There are some big loopholes, so @GovEvers responds by asking legislature to pass legislation to mandate in Wisconsin what ACA already does nationally, inc. on pre-existing conditions.
Incidentally: the rumor that Republicans in the legislature met with Evers the other day knowing he would mention Obamacare and expanding Medicare in Wisconsin, and therefore armed themselves beforehand with garlic and silver amulets, is probably not true.
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Joseph Britt
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Thread. #Wisconsin story via @jessieopie about aftermath of a Republican campaign gimmick. GOP legislators, supporting a lawsuit that would declare all of Obamacare unconstitutional, pledged state legislation protecting people w/pre-existing conditions if legal gambit failed.
They are now seeking to negotiate state legislation with new Democratic @GovEvers, whose response has been to suggest a bill that would do everything Obamacare does in Wisconsin if Republicans’ lawsuit to repeal Obamacare nationally succeeds.
Republicans in the legislature are outraged. They want to save their seats, not Obamacare. Why can’t @GovEvers see that and just, you know, work with them? This is headed for a bill Republicans will pass, Democrats will say (accurately) is meaningless, and Evers will veto.
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Joseph Britt
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Thread from last night. As we prepare for another day of immigration drama, I had some completely off-subject thoughts about China. No, really. China.
Flagging this @WarOnTheRocks podcast on US policy toward China with @elyratner and Brad Carson. It’s missing the ideological component about which @jgarnaut spoke, but helps explain how US hopes for China & the international system proved misplaced. warontherocks.com/2019/01/jaw-ja…
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There’s nowhere I particularly need to drive through tonight’s snowstorm, and I don't have any new insights on Buzzfeed and Michael Cohen. So indulge me while I think out loud for a bit. <thread>
2. @sbg1 has a thoughtful piece in The New Yorker that is partly about Trump’s Washington today, and partly about Putin’s Russia in 2001. newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…
3. Glasser was a reporter in Moscow then, and relates how some people there didn’t quite know what to make of this former KGB officer and his nostalgia for the Soviet police state. Would he try to bring it back? He certainly sounded as if he wanted to. But was that possible?
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BREAKING—as in breaking democracy: a truly shocking & naked power grab underway in Wisconsin. Dems won every statewide race this Nov. Now, the GOP unveiled sweeping bills to straightjacket the Gov & AG, stomp on early voting, & lock in power on state Sup Court. Votes THIS TUE. 1/
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One of the positive side effects of the excruciating, awful, relentless months in which the sole GOP legislative goal was to end the Affordable Care Act and eliminate protections for people with pre-existing conditions is that, today, people can tell that Republicans are lying.
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The problem that Nelson faces is that the Floridians who care most about health care were watching the ACA fight very, very closely. They were calling @SenBillNelson's office day after day. They know Nelson promised to protect their health care. They know he kept his promise.
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According to Chuck Todd, host of @MTPDaily, this tweet is a “tell” that Donald Trump is panicked about the effort from 18 Republican Attorneys General to challenge the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in court▶️seeking to end protections for those with pre-existing conditions. #LieGate
⚡️It’s certainly not a good look for Republicans less than 3 weeks from the November Election.

▶️Neither is talking about separating more children from their parents and putting them in cages
▶️Neither is talking about stripping Social Security & Medicare programs
▶️Neither is protecting the murderers of a respected journalist, then using money as the reason and inflating the numbers while you’re doing it

🔗Link to lawsuit against the ACA:

google.com/amp/s/thehill.…
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