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We have the 218 signatures needed to bring a 3-year extension of ACA subsidies to a vote. We can take this vote TODAY! Republicans can vote to change the House rules and move the bill forward NOW. Speaker Johnson, stop playing with American's health care![image or embed]" Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez (@ramirez.house.gov) Dec 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
We have the 218 signatures needed to bring a 3-year extension of ACA subsidies to a vote.
We can take this vote TODAY! Republicans can vote to change the House rules and move the bill forward NOW.
Speaker Johnson, stop playing with American's health care![image or embed]
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"That is a boon to Democratic leadership, which has stood firm in its demand for a longer term extension rather than the one- and two-year proposals put forth by centrist lawmakers in both parties.
But the proposal is likely to run aground in the Senate, where Republicans have already voted against an identical measure."
;; SO... this is some House GOPhers trying to keep their jobs back home knowing all the while that Trumpers in the Senate have their back.
Some heroes they are. Not.
#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-17 11:06 AM | Reply
The Senate won't play ball, this is theater.
#2 | Posted by qcp at 2025-12-17 11:24 AM | Reply
Corporate Democrats will find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. It's their m.o.
Republicans realize they are repugnant to their own base and fear their own town halls.
Progressives will replace all of these cretins.
#3 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-12-17 12:23 PM | Reply
Progressives wrote the ACA and it's such a failure that it needs to be subsidized. And since it's being subsidized insurance companies are milking it for all it's worth.
#4 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-12-17 12:51 PM | Reply
Progressives Lobbyists wrote the ACA
#5 | Posted by john_savage at 2025-12-17 12:56 PM | Reply
Pathetic
#6 | Posted by Truthhurts at 2025-12-17 12:59 PM | Reply
The Progressive Moment Is Over - by Ruy Teixeira The Progressive Moment in Global Politics Is Over A Progressive's Doubts About Progressivism in the Age of Trump Progressives Reject Progressivism
and they aren't coming back-
Marriage and Kids Cratering Among Liberal Young Adults
#7 | Posted by john_savage at 2025-12-17 01:01 PM | Reply
Yes you are.
#8 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-12-17 01:01 PM | Reply
#5 | Posted by john_savage at 2025-12-17 12:56 PM | Reply | Flag:
Knowing that progressives would pass it.
#9 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-12-17 01:07 PM | Reply
Just live out your pathetic sunset, progressive boomers. You have, collectively and by large, rationalized yourselves out of the gene-pool. Your ideological descendants are here already, and they are not doing well-
Authorities Arrest Members of a Far-Left Terror Cell Who Allegedly Planned New Year's Eve Bombing and Shooting Attacks
It's ironic, that the cause celebre del dia of progressives - disrupting society for the benefit of so-called illegals, which are anything but nonbreeding would-be "intellectual" progressives.
#10 | Posted by john_savage at 2025-12-17 01:12 PM | Reply
Progressives wrote the ACA and it's such a failure that it needs to be subsidized. And since it's being subsidized insurance companies are milking it for all it's worth. #4 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-12-17 12:51 PM
Romneycare?
Do you just use a toast-scented air freshener to keep it a guessing game?
#11 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-12-17 01:13 PM | Reply
"Progressives Lobbyists wrote the ACA"
The Heritage Foundation dreamed up the ACA. Governor Mitt Romney (R) implemented it in Massachusetts.
#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-17 01:14 PM | Reply
Reading your posts,Trump must be in a lot of deep ----, JOHN.
Just saying. Now, who are you really?
#13 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-17 01:17 PM | Reply
Marriage and Kids Cratering Among Liberal Young Adults #7 | Posted by john_savage
Kids are expensive. Of course young adults can't afford them.
#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-17 01:24 PM | Reply
Trump must be in a lot of deep ----
Our gov is a reciprocating engine, operating as designed, transporting energy upstream. Naturally it will swing one way and then the other. Watch, fascinated, as your energy is extracted and sent up the pyramid.
#15 | Posted by john_savage at 2025-12-17 01:31 PM | Reply
Yep. Trump is in deep ----.
#16 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-17 01:32 PM | Reply
Not really. 1) If you're wealthy, kids only take a small piece, but you begrudge even that. This is why they generally grow up to hate you, and you (generally) even deny them an inheritance.
2) If you're poor, kids are a valuable asset. Their needs are met by the State, and your tax bracket goes negative.
#17 | Posted by john_savage at 2025-12-17 01:35 PM | Reply
Scatterberg?
#18 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-17 01:36 PM | Reply
I remember kids being expensive. Vivid memory.
#19 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-17 01:38 PM | Reply
Scumbeg?
#20 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-17 01:38 PM | Reply
This is daddysfist's latest username.
#21 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-17 01:40 PM | Reply
#13 Son of Tomakin
#22 | Posted by john_savage at 2025-12-17 01:40 PM | Reply
#19 | Posted by Zed
You have children? ...Or had them, perhaps. A loving wife, too? They hate you now, don't they?
#23 | Posted by john_savage at 2025-12-17 01:46 PM | Reply
"They hate you now, don't they?"
Every post a confession continues...
#24 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-12-17 01:48 PM | Reply
Daddysfist is another PWZ pariah.
#25 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-17 01:49 PM | Reply
Everyone loves me but you.
#26 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-17 01:50 PM | Reply
A longtime friend of mine is a card-carrying progressive. He complained "kids are expensive" meme. His wife ran off, his children hate him, and he has but will never see his grandchildren. Plans on leaving his estate to a liberal charity. This is the progressive utopia. The cost is greater than what you may spend on your children, and the end game is a shared room and lying in your dirty diaper. Enjoy your disposable income. It's all you had, and all you deserved.
#27 | Posted by john_savage at 2025-12-17 01:54 PM | Reply
#26 | Posted by Zed
Rather presumptive on both counts.
#28 | Posted by john_savage at 2025-12-17 01:56 PM | Reply
Daddysfist, you're as believable as the------------ you worship.
#29 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-17 01:57 PM | Reply
I wasn't complaining. Kids are great. Best thing I ever did. Find a woman and try it.
#30 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-17 01:58 PM | Reply
QCP @ #2
"The Senate won't play ball, this is theater.
Possibly. Trump has them in a tight choke hold. Problem is, the Senate GOPers are also aware that the Blue Wave is going to cost them seats in November, and likely the majority, if they don't play ball with the House.
Senators are getting the same earfull of expletives from their constituents as the House over the new cost of health care.
Plus, Trump's poll numbers in the tank and getting worse. Trump is not an asset to their re-election. He's a liability now.
It's decision time.
#31 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-12-17 01:58 PM | Reply
Will you have medical insurance next year?
#32 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-17 02:00 PM | Reply
"john_savage"
This particular sock name is like over-the-top Nick Fuentes-style overcompensation, rofl!
And Domestic Terrorism in this country is now and has for decades been, according to the FBI and Homeland Security, the nearly exclusive provenance of far right White Nationalists and White Supremacists.
#33 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-17 02:06 PM | Reply
#30 | I did. We were poor at the time, yet we never complained about "kids being expensive". They hear when you think that, and it hurts them. I have vivid memories, but of the benefit, not of the cost.
#34 | Posted by john_savage at 2025-12-17 02:09 PM | Reply
"We were poor at the time, yet we never complained about "kids being expensive"
Because they were a lot cheaper back then, fool. You are absolutely clueless, aren't you?
#35 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-17 02:16 PM | Reply
Your creating ---- where there is none. You do that a lot.
The simple fact is that raising children is hard if you do it the right way, and that includes the money.
#36 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-17 02:19 PM | Reply
Tapping the sign now-
-They hear you, that's why. Not because "it's expensive", because they hear you and feel the pain they caused you, so don't want that to happen to them. Antinatalism leading to social darwinism. Progressives, especially homosexual progressives, will be extinct before long.
#37 | Posted by john_savage at 2025-12-17 02:34 PM | Reply
Daddysfist is a miserable MAGAt incel.
#38 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-17 02:36 PM | Reply
"Progressives, especially homosexual progressives, will be extinct before long."
Says the closeted homosexual.
#39 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-17 02:47 PM | Reply
Progressives, especially homosexual progressives, will be extinct before long.
That should really please the MAGAts. The people MAGAts hate the most will be eliminated without all the expense of time and money otherwise required to gas and burn them.
#40 | Posted by anton at 2025-12-17 02:51 PM | Reply
LOL
#41 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-12-17 02:52 PM | Reply
There have been gay and bisexual people since the beginning of time. You're not going to live to see them all gone.
#42 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-12-17 02:56 PM | Reply
"Argh! Stupid homosexual progressives! Blargh! Stupid! Gargh!"
#43 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-17 03:10 PM | Reply
A longtime friend of mine is a card-carrying progressive.
via GIPHY
#44 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-17 03:13 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
The Republicans have never been serious about offering up a serious plan, let alone getting serious about "concept(s) of a plan." They've been awfully busy doing other, more important stuff. Well, taking about two months off and shutting the House to help Trump with his Epstein coverup.
#45 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-17 03:35 PM | Reply
Ira Goldberg, the signature Hubris and contempt for others is a dead giveaway.
Why do these assholes keep resurrecting themselves?
#46 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-12-17 03:39 PM | Reply
"Scatterberg? "Scumbeg?
I was just about to suggest waiting, and the screaming from the closet would confirm.
"Progressives, especially homosexual progressives..."
Annnnnnd...confirmed.
#47 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-12-17 03:42 PM | Reply
-Ira Goldberg,
When's the last time that character posted here under that handle?
#48 | Posted by eberly at 2025-12-17 03:51 PM | Reply
especially homosexual progressives, will be extinct before long. #37 | Posted by john_savage
Gays and trans have ALWAYS been here. Your bull s h i t decree will have zero impact on that fact moving forward, you silly cultist! HAHAHAHA!!!
#49 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-12-17 03:59 PM | Reply
Mike Johnson, well known homosexual pedophile, has taken one for the pedo team and is left hung out to dry. Delicious.
#50 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-17 03:59 PM | Reply
And why does the same mother fucking retarded imbecile keep coming up with new dock puppets? Doc Savage?? Puh-lease. You're as savage as a Lhasa Apso.
#51 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-17 04:01 PM | Reply
"When's the last time that character posted here under that handle?"
About nine closeted names ago.
#52 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-12-17 04:05 PM | Reply
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