Covid Amy

 

The gift that keeps giving...to republican defeats

I was never among those who felt Democrats had a prayer to stop Covid Amy from being confirmed for the Supreme Court--that ship sailed when we didn't win the Senate in 2018.  But I do have to admit I really like their strategy going forward, and that is to make republicans own it when it comes to Obamacare. 

At yesterday's hearings, each and every Democratic Senator featured an Obamacare story in their prepared remarks.  Covid Amy can lie all she wants about how she doesn't know how she'll vote (another fucking lying conservative Catholic--what a surprise), but she was put there specifically to make sure that racist Donald Trump overturns President Obama's signature achievement.

I'm sure the republican strategy is that Americans will have forgotten about it by the next election, but I highly doubt that people are going to forget that their mother can't get healthcare because she has a pre-existing condition and republicans destroyed Obamacare.  Or the countless millions whose children won't be able to get affordable health insurance because republicans killed Obamacare.  Or the tens of millions who won't be able to afford to battle the ravages of COVID-19 so mercilessly mishandled by Donald Trump because republicans extinguished Obamacare.

The salvos from Democrats in yesterday's confirmation hearings weren't for this election--they're for 2022.  So republicans can enjoy their little political stunt and their sham of a Supreme Court hearing.  And in so doing, gift another blue wave to Democrats in 2022.

Or in other words, as President Obama so famously said, please proceed.

220,000+ Dead Americans

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee