Friday, October 21, 2016

Debate 3: Unsurprising Moment

Donald Trump vs. American Democracy

People are acting aghast. How could Donald Trump suggest he might not accept the election results? Such an affront to American democracy.

Really?

The US Senate is refusing to let President Obama make an appointment to the Supreme Court. The US constitution says he is the only person who can.

How is that not like putting the US constitution into the acid tank?

100% obstructionism of a black president because he is black for eight years non stop - - - how is that not an affront to the very idea of democracy?

Improve Obamacare

Barack Obama Offers Blistering Takedown Of GOP Obstructionism In Pitch For Health Care Law 

First is for the 19 states that have refused to take up Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion to do so, in the process covering millions more poor adults. Second is to beef up the subsidies provided to people who get their coverage from the law’s health insurance exchanges. And third is to set up a government-run public option program ― which Obama called a “public plan fallback” ― in geographic areas with the highest prices and least competition.