The only Republicans who don’t like the new bill are the very most conservative, and they don’t like it because it’s not bad enough. It stills provides some help to the manifestly undeserving.

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Why is the bill so bad? Health care is complicated, but the answer to this question is simple. The GOP promise was to provide better coverage for everybody with nobody paying for it. Since there’s actually no way to do that, Republicans didn’t!

They had two choices: better coverage, or cut the tax on the rich that was helping to provide the coverage.

Now, as you are gathered here, let’s see whether we have yet learned what Republicans always do when the choice is tax cuts for the rich, or something else. Hands?

Thank you. You are learning. The health-care question, like all questions regarding today’s GOP, always has the same answer: tax cuts for the rich. Consider this your guide to all policy questions. GOP answer: tax cuts for the rich. You are learning, just not enough of you.

Health care, environment, climate, IRS enforcement, gerrymandering, Supreme Court nominations, you name it, tax cuts for the rich is the answer. This time and every time. Explains a lot and saves you time reading all those analyses.