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G.O.P. Cheers a Big Victory. But Has It Stirred a ‘Hornet’s Nest’?

m.knox

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Only the d-baggers are buzzing angrily.

On the other hand, the dems learned first hand how much Americans dislike change. I think it will be lesser this time.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/...lth-repeal-republicans.html?ref=politics&_r=0

WASHINGTON — No one knows better than House Democrats how a contentious health care vote can exact a steep political price — losing control of the House in the first midterm election of an untested new president’s tenure for example.

As they hooted derisively at their Republican colleagues on Thursday after a narrow, party-line approval of legislation to roll back the Obama-era health care law, Democrats glimpsed the mirror image of their own politically disastrous health care experience. They also saw a prime opportunity to avenge their ugly 2010 loss and possibly recapture the House majority.

“I think they are staring death in the face,” Representative Gerald E. Connolly, Democrat of Virginia, said about the political prospects of dozens of House Republicans who were persuaded to back the bill by Republican leaders anxious to deliver a legislative win. “They asked their vulnerable members to take an enormous gamble and risk on an act of faith that I guarantee will not pay off.”
 
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