Let's make fun of Trump, bash him, etc. while we can!

[David Horn]

(04-18-2019, 11:17 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: The GOP hasn't transitioned/adjusted  to it's new role of representing the interests and serving the needs  of middle  class voters/ working people in general. Well, you have Medicare Part B available to you today thanks to Bush. Would you be upset or negatively impacted if it was taken away or declared unconstitutional by a conservative court? Once again, we run into the issue that  blues are having with living in America with an American  government that's limited by the American  Constitution.

A lot to respond to here:

• The GOP has been the business party since day one, and that hasn't changed.  Under Trump, it's all business interests all the time, so representing the interests of middle class voters is not in their wheelhouse.  Since the advent of Reagan, the Dems aren't any better, though that seems to finally be changing.
  
• Medicare Part B is part of the original Medicare from the Lyndon Johnson era.  Bush added Part D, which is a give away to the private market on more than one level.  Other countries negotiate drug prices directly.  
  
• I can't see the Supremes having a problem with Part D, which is, after all, a GOP program.  Why would they?  It's so far in their wheelhouse, it's manning the helm.
  
• And let's not forget that it's Trump who can't seem to stay inside the lines, not the Dems.  If the Supremes kill the ACA, which might happen out of partisan pique, you can be sure that the replacement will follow the Medicare rules: make it tax based and universal.