The enhanced subsidies for people who buy their health insurance through exchanges established by the Affordable Care Act have officially expired, and Democratic lawmakers are ready to make sure voters know whom to blame going into the midterm elections.
Politico reported Friday that while Democrats in Congress are still pushing their Republican colleagues to allow a vote on renewing the enhanced subsidies, they have mostly settled on a political strategy of going scorched-earth on the GOP for letting them expire in the first place.
Rep. Ami Bera (D-Calif.) told Politico that Americans who see their monthly premiums skyrocket in the wake of the subsidies’ expiration will take out their anger on the GOP.
They will send a sternly worded letter and do nothing else
Their messaging is usually terrible and so off-putting to so many of the low-info and the normies.
Watch for the Dems to step on some stupid rake like bathroom bills, men in women’s sports, BLM, “antifa”, defund the police, etc. it almost seems inevitable that even when the most obvious narrative is right there for them to set up the framing, they let the fucking corporate media and the fascists do all the framing.
They have no real media. Of course it’s framed by corporate media.
Honestly I figured the reason they caved in was that party leaders knew it would fuel midterms to make people suffer, but they themselves didn’t want to look that way so they had safe seats to be the fall guys. So yeah, duh.
Pretty sure people here can see the writing on the wall and will at least vote in the primary. Not sure what good it’ll do since tactics like that work way too well on average voters, but might as well try.
It’s primary season!
Lol. ‘they’re both the same’. ‘party owes me a good candidate, or I don’t vote, even if the other candidate is a monster’. ‘corporate sponsors’, ‘conplicit media’, ‘genocide’, ‘my foot hurts’, ‘its a working day’,…
If you don’t want to something, any excuse is as good as the next.
Good point, we should certainly vote for candidates who will fight for health care and not back down.
Too early. This is a fight for November. The fight for now is, are you fighting to boost the candidate you like who you CAN support? Or just waiting to see what settles so you can just complain about how it’s not good enough?
Now it’s too early? JFC!
